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The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Worship \Wor"ship\, n. [OE. worshipe, wur[eth]scipe, AS. weor[eth]scipe; weor[eth] worth + -scipe -ship. See Worth , a., and -ship .] Excellence of character; dignity; worth; worthiness. [Obs.] --Shak. A man of worship and honour. --Chaucer. Elfin, born ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
His or Her Worship is an honorific prefix for mayors , Justices of the Peace and magistrates in present or former Commonwealth realms . In spoken address, these officials are addressed as Your Worship or referred to as His or Her Worship . In Australia ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
I. verb COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a place of worship ▪ The church is much more than a place of worship. bow down in worship ▪ Come, let us bow down in worship . freedom of religion/worship (= the right to hold/practise any religious belief ) ▪ Liberal ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1200, from worship (n.). Related: Worshipped ; worshipping .

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
v. love unquestioningly and uncritically or to excess; venerate as an idol; "Many teenagers idolized the Beatles" [syn: idolize , idolise , hero-worship , revere ] show devotion to (a deity); "Many Hindus worship Shiva" attend religious services; "They ...

Usage examples of worship.

With Martha Corey in attendance, the afflicted disrupted virtually the entire worship service.

But the triumph of the Koran is more pure and meritorious, as it was not assisted by any visible splendor of worship which might allure the Pagans by some resemblance of idolatry.

In order to avail oneself of ambrosia, one must be willing to worship these individuals as gods.

It represents the erotic, libidinal, anarchistic, and subjective values worshiped by Hagbard Celine and our friends in the Legion of Dynamic Discord.

Antediluvian apostasy was the worship of God as Creator and Benefactor, and not as the Jehovah-God of Covenant and Mercy.

According to the ancient Analects, which guided the practitioners of Confucianism, ginger was such an important food that Confucius approved of its use even during periods of fasting or sacrificial worship, when the consumption of all other pungent or malodorous foods was prohibited.

This astrolatry, originally a kind of fetichism, became nature-worship, and gradually rose to the worship of the intelligence manifested to our contemplation in the movement of the heavenly luminaries.

The horror, however, with which one shudders at their worship is attributable, in some measure, to the mere effect of costume.

Malevolent Being in the early ages of the world, and the fall of man is attributed in the Boundehesch to an apostate worship of him, from which men were converted by a succession of prophets terminating with Zoroaster.

He was tired of worshipping or tyrannizing over the bistred or umbered beauties of mingled blood among whom he had been living.

Mary McKay only by her general reputation, and given that Amanda had put her forward, he had expected the usual New Age Earth Mother Goddess Worshiping Off the Male Chauvinist Pig vibrational blather, which, knowing George, would serve as springboard material for diverse diverting digressions into the wildest of blue yonders.

For once far away in the beginning the Kendah were two peoples, but the lighter-coloured people who worshipped the Child came down from the north and conquered the black people, bringing the Child with them, or so I understood her, Baas, thousands and thousands of years ago when the world was young.

I suppose, from the hero worship he developed when he was a teenager, and Blake was a star bronc rider on the rodeo circuit.

By the adoption of the new psalmody the Puritan and Presbyterian churches, perhaps not consciously, but none the less actually, yielded the major premiss of the only argument by which liturgical worship was condemned on principle.

Greg, that demons are taken very seriously by most of the population there, who mix Catholicism and Afro-Brazilian worship of macumba and umbanda.