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wor⋅ship
[wur-ship] 
noun, verb, -shiped, -ship⋅ing or (especially British
) -shipped, -ship⋅ping.–noun
| 1. | reverent honor and homage paid to God or a sacred personage, or to any object regarded as sacred. |
| 2. | formal or ceremonious rendering of such honor and homage: They attended worship this morning. |
| 3. | adoring reverence or regard: excessive worship of business success. |
| 4. | the object of adoring reverence or regard. |
| 5. | (initial capital letter) British. a title of honor used in addressing or mentioning certain magistrates and others of high rank or station (usually prec. by Your, His, or Her). |
–verb (used with object)
| 6. | to render religious reverence and homage to. |
| 7. | to feel an adoring reverence or regard for (any person or thing). |
–verb (used without object)
| 8. | to render religious reverence and homage, as to a deity. |
| 9. | to attend services of divine worship. |
| 10. | to feel an adoring reverence or regard. |
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| wor·ship (wûr'shĭp) n.
v. tr.
[Middle English worshipe, worthiness, honor, from Old English weorthscipe : weorth, worth; see worth1 + -scipe, -ship.] wor'ship·er, wor'ship·per n. |
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Worship
Wor"ship\, n. [OE. worshipe, wur[eth]scipe, AS. weor[eth]scipe; weor[eth] worth + -scipe -ship. See Worth, a., and -ship.]1. Excellence of character; dignity; worth; worthiness. [Obs.] --Shak. A man of worship and honour. --Chaucer. Elfin, born of noble state, And muckle worship in his native land. --Spenser. 2. Honor; respect; civil deference. [Obs.] Of which great worth and worship may be won. --Spenser. Then shalt thou have worship in the presence of them that sit at meat with thee. --Luke xiv. 10. 3. Hence, a title of honor, used in addresses to certain magistrates and others of rank or station. My father desires your worships' company. --Shak. 4. 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. "God with idols in their worship joined." --Milton. The worship of God is an eminent part of religion, and prayer is a chief part of religious worship. --Tillotson. 5. Obsequious or submissive respect; extravagant admiration; adoration. 'T is your inky brows, your black silk hair, Your bugle eyeballs, nor your cheek of cream, That can my spirits to your worship. --Shak. 6. An object of worship. In attitude and aspect formed to be At once the artist's worship and despair. --Longfellow. Devil worship, Fire worship, Hero worship, etc. See under Devil, Fire, Hero, etc.Worship
Wor"ship\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Worshipedor Worshipped; p. pr. & vb. n. Worshiping or Worshipping.]1. 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. --Foxe. 2. 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. --Milton. 3. 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.Worship
Wor"ship\, v. i. To perform acts of homage or adoration; esp., to perform religious service. Our fathers worshiped in this mountain; and ye say that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship. --John iv. 20. Was it for this I have loved . . . and worshiped in silence? --Longfellow.
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Language Translation for : Worship
Spanish:
adorar, rendir culto (a),
German:
anbeten,
Japanese:
崇拝する
worship (n.)
O.E. worðscip, wurðscip (Anglian), weorðscipe (W.Saxon) "condition of being worthy, honor, renown," from weorð "worthy" (see worth) + -scipe (see -ship). Sense of "reverence paid to a supernatural or divine being" is first recorded c.1300. The original sense is preserved in the title worshipful (c.1300). The verb is recorded from c.1200.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Worship
homage rendered to God which it is sinful (idolatry) to render to any created being (Ex. 34:14; Isa. 2:8). Such worship was refused by Peter (Acts 10:25,26) and by an angel (Rev. 22:8,9).
Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
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worship
broadly defined, the response to the appearance of that which is accepted as the holy-that is, to a sacred, transcendent power or being. Characteristic modes of response to the holy include cultic acts of all kinds: ritual drama, prayers of many sorts, dancing, ecstatic speech, veneration of various persons and objects, sermons, silent meditation, and sacred music and song. Also included in worship are acts of private response: spoken or unspoken prayers, silence, the assumption of particular postures, ritual acts and gestures, and individual acts of veneration of persons or objects.
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