Homage

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·vt To cause to pay homage.

II. Homage ·vt To pay reverence to by external action.

III. Homage ·noun Reverence directed to the Supreme Being; reverential worship; devout affection.

IV. Homage ·noun Respect or reverential regard; deference; especially, respect paid by external action; obeisance.

V. Homage ·noun A symbolical acknowledgment made by a feudal tenant to, and in the presence of, his lord, on receiving investiture of fee, or coming to it by succession, that he was his man, or vassal; profession of fealty to a sovereign.