The selection of a pope by acclamation and before any formal ballot (excluded as a voting method in 1621 by Pope Gregory XV).
An act of religious worship.
Worship of Christ in the Eucharistic host in the Catholic Church, often while exposed in a monstrance.
The act of adoring; loving devotion or fascination.
Admiration or esteem.
Something to be derided; a laughing stock.
Act of treating with disdain.