Verbal devotion. Honouring with the lips while the heart takes no part nor lot in the matter. (See Matt. xv. 8, Isa. xxix. 13.)
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.