latitude 
to the equator in the same meridian. Heliocentric lat- 
itude. Sec AettoMii/i-ic. Hellographlc latitude. See 
helio-jravhie. -- Latitude by account (naut.), the lat itmle 
Ii lii '-ri I from the course and distance sailed since the last 
observation. Latitude by observation (iuiut.1. the hit- 
Itude deduced from 1111 observation of some heavenly 
body. Middle latitude, In nae., the latitude of the 
parallel midway between two places situated in the same 
hemisphere. 1 1 Is equal to half the sum of the latitudes of 
tin 1 two places when they are on the same side of the 
equator ; when they are on opposite sides, it is equal to 
half the difference of their latitudes. Middle-latitude 
Bailing, u combination of plane and parallel sailing, so 
named from the use of the middle latitude that is, the 
latitude of the parallel which is equally distant from the 
parallel left and the one arrived at. See miliivj. Par- 
allel of latitude. Same as ri'iW,' qf latitude (ft). 
latitudinal (lat-i-tu'di-nal), a. [= Sp. latitti- 
<liinil,< L. t/iti/itdo (-r//-)i breadth, + -of.] Per- 
taining to latitude; being in the direction of 
latitude. 
latitudinarian (lat-i-tu-di-na'ri-an), a. and . 
[Cf. F. latitudinaire; < NL. latitiidinarius, < L. 
latitudo (-din-), breadth: see latitude.'] I. a. 
1. Embracing a wide circle or range; having 
free scope ; not conforming to a strict code of 
morals ; roving ; libertine. 
l,"tit<n!<:i<irtnn love will be expensive, and therefore I 
would be Informed what is to be gotten by it. 
Jeremy Collier, Kindness. 
2. Characterized by latitude or independence 
of thought, or by forbearance from strict insis- 
tence upon the usual standards of belief or opin- 
ion; especially, not rigidly strict in religious 
principles or views; tolerant of free-thinking 
or heresy: as, latitudinarian opinions or doc- 
trines. The word is generally used opprobriousiy. It is 
rclftcally applied in church history to certain Episcopal 
ines of the seventeenth century (see below), but in later 
time to all who regard specific creeds, methods of church 
government, and forms of worship with comparative In- 
difference. 
A man bred among Dutch Presbyterians, and well known 
to hold laiiiii'liiuii-iini opinions about robes, ceremonies, 
and bishops. Macaulay, Hist. Eng., vii. 
Men of broad views, of tolerant, if not latitudinarian, 
temper. if. JV. Oxenham, Short Studies, p. 9. 
Locke . . . was a theologian, and a sincere If latitudi- 
narian Christian. l.i-slii- Stephen, Eng. Thought, L 21. 
II. M. 1. In Eng. church hist., one of a school 
of Episcopal divines who in the seventeenth 
century strove to unite the dissenters with the 
Episcopal Church by insisting only on those 
doctrines which were held in common by both, 
and who, while they maintained the wisdom of 
the episcopal fonn of government and ritual, 
denied their divine origin and authority. 
They wished that things might have been carried with 
more moderation, and they continued to keep up a good 
correspondence with those who differed from them in 
opinion, and allowed a great freedom both in philosophy 
and in divinity; from whence they were called "men of 
latitude " ; and upon this men of narrow thoughts fastened 
upon them the name of latitudimriaiu. Bp. Burnet. 
2. Hence, in later times, one who regards with 
comparative indifference specific creeds, meth- 
ods of church government, and forms of pub- 
lic worship: generally used opprobriousiy. 
latitudinarianism (lat-i-tu-di-na'ri-an-izm), . 
[< latitudinarian + -ism.] The doctrine of a 
latitudinarian or of the latitudinarians; free- 
dom or liberality of opinion in religion, phi- 
losophy, politics, etc. ; laxity or indifference in 
regard to doctrines and forms. 
He [Jortin] was a lover of truth, without hovering over 
the gloomy abyss of scepticism ; and a friend to free en- 
quiry, without roving into the dreary and pathless wilds 
of l<ititndinariani*m. Parr, Tracts by a Warburtonlan. 
Fierce sectarianism bred fierce latitudinarianism. 
De QuiHcey. 
Extreme contrasts of doctrine have come to be openly 
treated as simply differences of opinion, Sacerdotalism 
and Latitudinarianimn finding a common home In an un- 
divided Church. Contemporary Rev., L. 21. 
latitudinous (lat-i-tu'di-nus), a. [< L. latitudo 
i-ilin-), breadth: see latitude."] Very broad; 
having a wide extent or scope. 
latent, ii. A Middle English form of latten. 
I'liinm r. 
Latona (la-td'nS), M. [L., < Gr. \rrru, Doric 
Aarci: see def.] 1. In clattsifiil myth., the Ro- 
man name of the Greek goddess Leto, mother 
by Jupiter of Apollo and Diana. See Leto. 
Mygale, the symbol of Latona or Night 
K niijht, Anc. Art and Myth. (1876), p. 57. 
2. In :ool. : (a) A genus of mollusks. (b) A 
genus of cladocerous crustaceans of the family 
Ki<tirl(e. (c) A genus of rove-beetles or Aopfty- 
linidtr having the anterior tarsi dilated. There 
are two species, both from the United States of 
Colombia, Criteria, 1844. ((/) A geuus of spi- 
ders. C. Koch. lS(ili. 
latonert, . A Middle English form of lattener. 
1'ork 1'lays. 
3I560 
latount, n. A Middle English fonn of 
latter-mint 
tria, liiilriini', and cf. larceny, a roduced form of 
i iidiii-er. tin- same word.] Larceny; th.lt. sin,-/ 
latrantt (la'trant), a. [= It. latrantr, < L. la- Latrodectus i lat-to-drk'tiiM. n. [NL.] A &- 
mis of rc'tifrlnrian'8piders,of the family 7Vn- 
iliiiln. SIM- 
trnn(l-)n, ppr. of Intrnri; bark.] Barking; 
clamoring noisily. 
Whose latrant stomachs oft molest lattage (lat'aj), M." [A dial. var. of "letlm/i . / 
The deep-laid plans their drewns suggest. M z 3- _,,<,,..;[ An impediment: generally ap- 
f. Green, The Spleen. Ued t a V fect ; ! ecch _ H<l ,^ re , L [ 
Thy care be first the various gifts to trace, l>, _ -i 
The minds and genius of the latrant race. , f]f' ' 
Ticlcell, Hunting, lattcen, ". ko<- 1'iteen. 
latratet (la'trat), r. . [< L. latratus, pp. of latten (lat'en)n [Early mod. E. also latt,m, 
latrare, bark.] To bark, as a dog. ta '"' tafaw ' < ME - tato "> totown, '"tun (= Russ. 
latrationt (la-tra'shon), n. [< L as if 'lalra- tatunii), < OF. toton, F. te.tVm, latten, = 8p. lat,.,, 
tio(n-), < latr'arf, bark : see latrate.} A barking, = P - '<*>, brass, metal in thin plates, < 8n. 
as of a dog. tote, lath, = Pg. fata, tin-plate, < G. /<ie, a lath, 
Latreillean (IS-tra'le-au), a. [< Latreille (see *Mn plate: see tatfiVf 1 A mixed metal, 
def.) + -an.] Pertaining to the French natu- made of c Pper and zinc and not practically 
ralist Pierre Andre Latreille (1762-1833). distinguishable from brass. Such a metal was used 
A genus of 
ralist Pierre Andr6 Latreille (1762-1833). 
Latreillia (la-tra'li-ii), n. [NL., named after 
Latreille, the French naturalist.] 1. A genus 
of crustaceans. Soux, 1827. 2. A 
Muscid(F. Desvoidy, 1830. 
latreutical (Ia-tr6'ti-kal), a. [< MGr. 
rotor, of or for divine service, < Gr. \t 
serve, work for hire, < Mrpif, a hired servant: 
see latria."] 1. Acting in the capacity of a ser- 
vant; ministering; serving. [Rare.] 
That In this sacred supper there is a sacrifice In that 
sense wherein the fathers spake, none of us ever doubted : 
but that Is then either latrrntical. as BeUarmin distin- 
guishes It not ill, or eucharlstical. 
Bp. Hall, No Peace with Rome, 1 4. 
2. Relating to or in the nature of latria. 
throughout the middle ages and later, commonly In thin 
sheets, for the manufacture of various utensils, and for 
the brasses of sepulchral monuments. The term appears 
to be now restricted to kinds of brass that are worked 
into articles for ecclesiastical use. 
He hadde a croys of latinm fui of stones. 
i'hauerr. Gen. ITol. to C. T., 1. 099. 
The doores or gates are couered with fine Latten of 
Corinth : one of which (they imagine) was made of the 
wood of Noahs Arke. Purchat, PUgrlmage, p. 298. 
The candlestick was seven-branched, made of laton or 
brass, so that It could be easily set up or taken to pieces 
iurnin. Rode, Church of our Fathers, III. L 244. 
2. Same as lattcn-braxs. Black latten, a dark-col- 
ored latten in milled sheets, sometimes beaten Into wire. 
-Gold latten. See gold. Latten wire, wire made 
from strips of latten beaten with a mallet until round. 
lat.ria. Cla-tri'tt'l n t F InM* Irv ;/Vw/r Sucn w ' rc waB made before the Introduction of wirc- 
latria (, a tn a), n I t . latrie = tria = drawing machines.- Koll latten. latten policed on both 
Pg. It. latrta, < LL. latna, < Gr. torpcia, service, sides ready for use. Simnwndt. - Shaven latten, a 
divine worship/ Aarpeictv, serve for hire, serve thinner kind of latten. 
God with prayers, etc., < ?.<irp<c, a hired servant ; latten-brass (lat'en-bras), H. A metallic com- 
cf. L. latro(n-), a mercenary, a robber: see la- pound into which scrap-brass and other ingre- 
drone.~\ In Bom. Cat*, theol., a technical term dients enter, and which is rolled in thin plates. 
for that supreme worship which is allowed to lattener (lat'en-er), n. A worker in latten. 
be offered to God only: distinguished from latter (lat'er), a. [A var. of later (= OFries. 
dulia and hyperdulia. letora, letera, littcra, worse, later, = MHG. laz- 
Latrididae (la-trid'i-de), . pi. [NL.] The *'' later, = Icel. latari, comp. of latr, lazy), 
usual but an 'irregular form of Lathridiida;. compar.of /te,nowpartlydifferentiatedinuse: 
Latridius, . See Lathridius. 
latrine (la-tren'), n. [= F. latrine = Sp. Pg. 
It. latrina, < L. latrina (also neut. Mrinum). 
contr. of laratrina, a bath, a water-closet, < 
lavare, wash: see tare 2 , lotion."] A privy; a 
water-closet; especially, a water-closet in a 
public place, as in factories, schools, barracks, 
hospitals, etc. 
Across the gardens were the latrinet for the domestics, 
and, some distance away from these on the same side, the 
laundries. Quoted in Nineteenth Century, XXIV. 847. 
Latris (la'tris), n. {NL., < L. Latris, a female 
proper name, < Gr. /.arpic, a workman for hire, 
m fern, a handmaid.] A genus of fishes of the 
family Cirritida;. L. hecateia is a New Zealand 
species, known as the trumpeter, and highly 
esteemed for its flesh. ./. Richardson. 
see i(i.] 1. Later; more advanced or more 
recent; nearer to the close or to the present 
time: as, the latter part of the day, or of one's 
life ; in these latter days. 
Hear counsel, and receive instruction, that thou mayest 
be wise In thy latter end. Prov. xii. 20. 
latrobe (la-trob'), n. [Short for Latrobe stove , 
so called from its inventor, I. Latrobe of Balti- 
more.] A form of stove which is set into a 
fireplace, has a projecting ornamental front, 
and is arranged for heating floors above by 
means of a hot-air flue fitted with a damper 
and register. E. H. Knight, 
timore neater. 
latrobite (la-tro'bit), . [Named after O. T. 
Latrobe.'] A pink or rose-red variety of an- 
orthite, or lime feldspar, from Labrador. 
2. Coming after another person or thing in con- 
sideration or relation ; being the second of two 
or of a dual division in order of existence or of 
mention : opposed to former : as, I prefer the 
latter proposition to the former. 
I hold It ever. 
Virtue and cunning were endowments greater 
Than nobleness and riches ; careless heirs 
May the two latter darken and expend. 
Shalt., I'erlcles, UL 2. 29. 
This was the opinion and practice of the latter Cato. 
Swift, Sent, of Ch. of Eng. Man, L 
3f. Last; latest; final. 
Direct mine arms, I may embrace his neck. 
And in his bosom spend my latter gasp. 
Shall, 1 Hen. VI., iL6.lt 
Latter end, Tjunrnaa, etc. See the nouns. The for- 
. mer and the latter rain. Seenrin. 
Also called Sal- latter-bornt (Iat'er-b6rn), a. Born later; 
younger. 
My wife, more careful for the latter-torn, 
Had fasten'd him unto a small spare mast. 
Shat.,C. of E.,i 1. 79. 
latrocinary (lat'ro-si-mWri), a. [< latrocin-y + latter-day (lat'er-da), . Belonging to recent 
or present times, as opposed to early or former 
periods. 
Two charming expressions of another of Mr. Lang's lat 
terday moods. The Academy, Dec. 29, 1888, p. 8K. 
Abraham, wandering off and founding a clan which be- 
comes In time as distinct as any that ever existed, fore- 
shadows our latter-day divergences. 
Contemporary Rev., till. 40S. 
-nry.~\ Practising highway robbery. 
In our viatorial progression we were now opposite the 
Portobello, where latrocinary homicides wont to lurk. 
CampbeU, Lexiplianes (ed. 1 7H7), p. 56. 
latrocinationt (lat'ro-si-na'shon), n. [< L. 
latrocinatio(n-), highway robbery, < latroeinari, 
be a hired servant, practise freebooting: see 
/utmcinium.'] The act of robbing; a depreda- 
tion. E. Phillips, 1706. 
latrocinium (lat-ro-sin'i-um), . [L.: seelatm- latter-kin (lat'er-kin), 11. A pointed piece of 
fiiiy. larceny."} If. Larceny; theft. 2. [cap."] hard wood used for clearing out the grooves of 
In church hist., a council held at Ephesus (A. D. the carries or leaden frames in fretwork-glaz- 
449), at which action was taken in favor of the ing. K. H. Knight. 
heretic Eutyches (see Eutychian) : so called be- latterly (lat'er-li), adr. Of late; lately; at a 
cause its measures were carried by force and late or recent time. 
intimidation. All its acts were reversed at the ecu- It was by crushing a formidable resistance of this kind 
mcnlcal council of Chalcedon, two years later. Also called tbt. Taiko acquired his ascendancy latterly. Brougham. 
Latter-day Sainta, Mormons : so called by themselves. 
See M,*r,,' ,,. 
. 
IteWMM Latrocinium, and the ,robber council or lynod. lattermath(lat'er-mBth), n. [< bitter + math."} 
3 t . The prerogative of sitting in judgment The latter mowing; aftermath. [Rare.] 
upon and executing thieves. 
Hjit'rn si ni^ i 
(lat r-ei-ni), n. 
C Sn Pr Tt 
1= Sp. fg. It. 
freebooting, < Intnn n-'i. a mercenary, a 
robber ; cf . Gr. ?-aro<f, a hired servant : see la- 
The latter-math has less substance, succulence, and fra- 
grance than the summer crop. Land' r. 
latter-mint (lat'er-mint), H. A late kind of 
' mint. 
Savory, latter-mint, and columbines. 
Kratt, Kndymion, IT. 
