:: : * The definition on dictionary . com from " The American Heritage?Dictionary of the English Language ", Fourth Edition, reads, " " excessive " veneration or worship of the Virgin Mary . " An old " Webster's New World Dictionary of the American Language " has " worship of the Vigin Mary, regarded as carried to an idolatrous extreme : " opprobrious " term ."
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In 1835, a Parliamentary Committee set up to investigate the activities of the Order heard from a local magistrate, William Hancock, that : " For some time past the peaceable inhabitants of the parish of Drumcree have been insulted and outraged by large bodies of Orangemen parading the highways, playing party tunes, firing shots, and using the most opprobrious epithets they could invent . . . a body of Orangemen marched through the town and proceeded to Drumcree church, passing by the Catholic chapel though it was a considerable distance out of their way ."
