latitud in arianism

[English lati tudinarian ; -ism .] Freedom or liberality of opinion, especially in matters relating to religion; absence of bigotry; laxity or indifference in respect to religious doctrines. *la-treût-Ic-al, a. [Gr. latreuō =to serve.] Ministering; acting as a servant; pertaining or relating to latria (q. v.). la-tri-a, s. [Lat., from Gr. latreia.] Ecclesiol. & Church Hist.: A technical term for that supreme worship which can lawfully be offered to God alone. In this sense the word was used by the Greek Fathers, and at the second Council of Nice (Seventh General, A. D. 787), St. Augustine adopted it, on the ground that it expre ed exactly what no single Latin word would expre ; and it was probably owing to his influence that it pa ed into general use.