ADVOCATUS DIABOLI

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ADVOCATUS DIABOLI , devil's,

advocate

, the name popularly. given to the promoter of the Faith (promoter fidei) , and officer of the Sacred

Congregation

CONGREGATION (Lat. congregatio, a gathering together, from cum, with, grex, gregis, a flock,
herd
- HERD (a word common to Teutonic
  languages
  - LANGUAGES
  ; the O. Eng. form was heord; cf. Ger. Herde, Swed. and Dan. hjord; the Sans. ca'rdhas, which shows the pre-Teutonic form, means a troop)
)

Rites

RITES

at Rome, whose duty is to prepare all possible arguments against the admission of any one to the posthumous honours of beatification and canonization. This functionary is first formally mentioned under Leo X.(1513-1521) in the proceedings in connexion with the canonization of St Lorenzo Giustiniani. In 1631 Urban VIII. made his presence, either in person or by

deputy

DEPUTY (through the Fr. from a Late Lat. use of deputare, to cut off, allot; putare having the original sense of to trim,
prune
- PRUNE (adapted in various forms, e.g. prunne, proyne, &c., from Fr. prune, Med. Lat. pruna, Lat. prunum, Gr. irpovvov, earlier Trpouľvov, plum)
)

, necessary for the validity of any act connected with the process of beatification or canonization (see CANONIZATION). The phrase, " devil's

advocate

," has by an easy transference come to be used of any one who puts himself up, or is put up, for the

sake

SAKE

of promoting debate, to argue a case in which he does not necessarily believe.

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