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Worship : (noun)
1: the activity of worshipping
2: a feeling of profound love and admiration [syn: adoration]
(verb)
1: love unquestioningly and uncritically or to excess; venerate
as an idol; "Many teenagers idolized the Beatles" [syn:
idolize, idolise, hero-worship, revere]
2: show devotion to (a deity); "Many Hindus worship Shiva"
3: attend religious services; "They worship in the traditional
manner"
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Worship : \Wor"ship\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Worshipedor
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.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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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.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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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.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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WORSHIP. The honor and homage rendered to the Creator.
2. In the United States, this is free, every one being at liberty to
Worship : God according to the dictates of his conscience. Vide Christianity;
Religious test.
Based on Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [Bouvier_Law_Dictionary]:
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WORSHIP, Eng. law. A title or addition given to certain persons. 2 Inst.
666; Bac. Ab. Misnomer, A 2.
Based on Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [Bouvier_Law_Dictionary]:
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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).
Based on Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [Bouvier_Law_Dictionary]:
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