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.