Definition of worship
- a. - Excellence of character; dignity; worth; worthiness.
- a. - Honor; respect; civil deference.
- a. - Hence, a title of honor, used in addresses to certain
magistrates and others of rank or station.
- a. - 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.
- a. - Obsequious or submissive respect; extravagant admiration;
adoration.
- a. - An object of worship.
- v. t. - To respect; to honor; to treat with civil reverence.
- v. t. - To pay divine honors to; to reverence with supreme
respect and veneration; to perform religious exercises in honor of; to
adore; to venerate.
- v. t. - To honor with extravagant love and extreme submission,
as a lover; to adore; to idolize.
- v. i. - To perform acts of homage or adoration; esp., to
perform religious service.