What is "worshipful"

Usage examples of "worshipful".

He remembered the sound of TIAMAT as the initiates spoke the word for the first time, and remembered the tale the Worshipful Master told them of the sacred origins of the order, of Guiseppe Balsamo, called Cagliostro, and the secret entrusted him by the Shining Brother in an English wood.

Sarah, another daughter of that same worshipful mayor, married David Martineau, grandson of Gaston Martineau, who fled from France at the time of the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes.

Brandon told of many isles, some with friendly folk and some where dwelt enchanters to be feared, and some where worshipful priests dwelt, solitarily praising God, and clothed only hi a weave of their long gray hair.

For if they themselves are the dead come to life again, it is difficult to see how they can worship the spirits of the dead without also worshipping each other, since they are all by hypothesis simply these worshipful spirits reincarnated.

From the moment when he is first elected a member of the Worshipful Company of Linendrapers he can see it coming.

He was dedicated to this from birth, or anyhow from the moment when he was first elected a member of the Worshipful Company of Linendrapers, and he has been preparing that wooden expression ever since.

Worshipful and Honorable Guild of Resplendent Sky-Fire Hurlers and through them he procured for Gwalchmai books on the mystery and the art of making fireworks.

There was, in particular, one nondescriptly clad man whose worshipful expression and gigantic stature marked him as a valuable possession.

There was no answering an argument of such force as this, and the worshipful governor and the good folk of Charleston knew very well that Blackbeard and his crew were the men to do as they promised.

To every wight she woxen is so deere And worshipful, that folk ther she was bore And from hir birthe knewe hir yeer by yeere, Unnethe trowed they, but dorste han swore That she to Janicle, of which I spak bifore, She doghter nere, for as by conjecture, Hem thoughte she was another creature.

Those he clasps,Intent as tempest, worshipful as prayer, -And be they doves or be they asps, -Must seem to him the sovereignty fair.

It pleased him to see that Luet wasn't just a tagalong, that in fact she wasn't at all worshipful or deferent, beyond the normal courtesy of friendship.

It pleased him to see that Luet wasn’t just a tagalong, that in fact she wasn’t at all worshipful or deferent, beyond the normal courtesy of friendship.

His mind instantly conjured up an image of the worshipful glances he had caught Applegate giving Harriet.

Rather like imagining that the fire fighters she brought home would turn out to be poets, that the policemen she had seduced would reveal themselves to be great novelists, that the forest ranger she'd met in the bar in Bolinas was truly a great painter, and that the husky Viet Nam veteran who'd taken her to his cabin in the woods was a great motion picture director hiding from a demanding and worshipful world.