The Collaborative International Dictionary
Worship \Wor"ship\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Worshiped Worshipped; p. pr. & vb. n. Worshiping or Worshipping.]
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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.
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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.
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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.
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WordNet
n. the activity of worshipping
a feeling of profound love and admiration [syn: adoration]
[also: worshipping, worshipped]
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 worship in the traditional manner"
[also: worshipping, worshipped]
See worship
Usage examples of "worshipped".
Whether the guardian spirits or goddesses, who are worshipped in the temples, were originally conceived as ancestral spirits or not, must be left an open question for the present.
Such powerful and admired or dreaded ghosts might easily grow in time into gods and goddesses, who are worshipped as presiding over the various departments of nature and of human life.
In every village a public ghost is worshipped, and the chief is the sacrificer.
Aneiteum, one of the Southern New Hebrides, worshipped the spirits of their ancestors, chiefly on occasions of sickness.
Such a shrine contained the weapons and other properties which belonged in his lifetime to the man whose ghost was worshipped on the spot.
Some of them are very old, the powerful ghosts who are worshipped in them being remote ancestors.
A temple might also contain images, which, though highly esteemed as ornaments and held sacred, were not worshipped as idols.
In these parts he was particularly worshipped, and said to have been the first deified mortal.
Their chief Deity was the Sun, whom they worshipped together with the Baalim, under the titles Ourchol, Adonis, Thamuz.
Deity whom they worshipped, or by the name of the insigne and hieroglyphic under which their country was denoted, every depredation made by such people was placed to the account of the Deity under such a device.
I should think that in this place it signified the ground which the wall surrounded: an inclosure sacred to Cham, the Sun, who was particularly worshipped in such places.
They were so denominated from the Deity they worshipped, who was represented under a particular form.
I run counter to the opinions of all antiquity: that all the fathers who treated of this subject, and many other learned men, supposed the Gods of the heathen to have been deified mortals, who were worshipped in the countries, where they died.
Apollo, nor the Python were slain, but where they were both worshipped, being one and the same Deity.
This was one title out of many, by which the chief Deity of the country was worshipped, and was equivalent to On, Orus, Osiris, and Canobus.