6 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Worship \Wor"ship\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Worshiped}or
{Worshipped}; p. pr & vb n. {Worshiping} or {Worshipping}.]
1. To respect; to honor; to treat with civil reverence.
[Obsoles.] --Chaucer.
Our grave . . . shall have a tongueless mouth, Not
worshiped with a waxen epitaph. --Shak.
This holy image that is man God worshipeth --Foxe.
2. To pay divine honors to to reverence with supreme respect
and veneration; to perform religious exercises in honor
of to adore; to venerate.
But God is to be worshiped. --Shak.
When all our fathers worshiped stocks and stones.
--Milton.
3. To honor with extravagant love and extreme submission, as
a lover; to adore; to idolize.
With bended knees I daily worship her --Carew.
Syn: To adore; revere; reverence; bow to honor.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Worship \Wor"ship\, n. [OE. worshipe, wur[eth]scipe, AS
weor[eth]scipe; weor[eth] worth + -scipe -ship. See {Worth},
a., and {-ship}.]
1. Excellence of character; dignity; worth; worthiness.
[Obs.] --Shak.
A man of worship and honour. --Chaucer.
Elfin, born of noble state, And muckle worship in
his native land. --Spenser.
2. Honor; respect; civil deference. [Obs.]
Of which great worth and worship may be won.
--Spenser.
Then shalt thou have worship in the presence of them
that sit at meat with thee. --Luke xiv.
10.
3. Hence a title of honor, used in addresses to certain
magistrates and others of rank or station.
My father desires your worships' company. --Shak.
4. The act of paying divine honors to the Supreme Being
religious reverence and homage; adoration, or acts of
reverence, paid to God, or a being viewed as God. ``God
with idols in their worship joined.'' --Milton.
The worship of God is an eminent part of religion,
and prayer is a chief part of religious worship.
--Tillotson.
5. Obsequious or submissive respect; extravagant admiration;
adoration.
'T is your inky brows, your black silk hair, Your
bugle eyeballs, nor your cheek of cream, That can my
spirits to your worship. --Shak.
6. An object of worship.
In attitude and aspect formed to be At once the
artist's worship and despair. --Longfellow.
{Devil worship}, {Fire worship}, {Hero worship}, etc See
under {Devil}, {Fire}, {Hero}, etc
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Worship \Wor"ship\, v. i.
To perform acts of homage or adoration; esp., to perform
religious service.
Our fathers worshiped in this mountain; and ye say that
in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship.
--John iv 20.
Was it for this I have loved . . . and worshiped in
silence? --Longfellow.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
worship
n 1: the activity of worshipping
2: a feeling of profound love and admiration [syn: {adoration}]
v 1: love unquestioningly and uncritically [syn: {idolize}, {hero-worship},
{revere}]
2: show religious devotion to as of a deity; "Many Hindus
worship Shiva"
3: attend religious services; "They worship in the traditional
manner"
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Worship
homage rendered to God which it is sinful (idolatry) to render
to any created being (Ex. 34:14; Isa. 2:8). Such worship was
refused by Peter (Acts 10:25,26) and by an angel (Rev. 22:8,9).
From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:
WORSHIP, n. Homo Creator's testimony to the sound construction and
fine finish of Deus Creatus A popular form of abjection, having an
element of pride.
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