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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 372 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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NEOCORATE , a

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RANK (O.Fr. rant or rent, mod. rang, generally connected with the O.E. and O.H.G. bring, a ring)

rank or dignity granted by the

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SENATE (Lat. senatus, from root sen-, as in senex, old; the root is the Sanskrit sana, cf. Gr. 'vos; the same element appears in senor, seigneur, seneschal)

Senate under the

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ROMAN

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EMPIRE

Empire to certain cities of

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ASIA

Asia, which had built temples for the

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WORSHIP (i.e. " worth-ship," O. Eng. weor8scipe)

worship of the emperors or had established cults of members of the imperial

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FAMILY

family . The

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Greek word vsWKOpor meant literally a

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temple-sweeper (velos, temple, Kopeiu, to sweep), and was thence used both of a temple attendant and of a priestly holder of high rank who was in

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charge of a temple .

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