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wor⋅ship

  [wur-ship] noun, verb, -shiped, -ship⋅ing or (especially British) -shipped, -ship⋅ping.
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–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.
Origin:
bef. 900; (n.) ME wors(c)hipe, worthssipe, OE worthscipe, var. of weorthscipe; see worth, -ship; (v.) ME, deriv. of the n.

Related forms:
wor⋅ship⋅er, noun
wor⋅ship⋅ing⋅ly, adverb

Synonyms:
3. honor, homage, adoration, idolatry. 7. honor, venerate, revere, adore, glorify, idolize, adulate.
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Beauty of Holiness
All Are Welcome to Join Us For Worship Sunday at 10 A.M.
www.wayfarerschapel.org
Expository Bible Church
Come and Worship with us in Spirit and in Truth. Thousand Oaks, CA
www.oakbrookbible.org
wor·ship   (wûr'shĭp)   
n.  

    1. The reverent love and devotion accorded a deity, an idol, or a sacred object.

    2. The ceremonies, prayers, or other religious forms by which this love is expressed.

  2. Ardent devotion; adoration.

  3. often Worship Chiefly British Used as a form of address for magistrates, mayors, and certain other dignitaries: Your Worship.

v.   wor·shiped or wor·shipped, wor·ship·ing or wor·ship·ping, wor·ships

v.   tr.

  1. To honor and love as a deity.

  2. To regard with ardent or adoring esteem or devotion. See Synonyms at revere1.

v.   intr.

  1. To participate in religious rites of worship.

  2. To perform an act of worship.


[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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Word Origin & History

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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Bible Dictionary

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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Encyclopedia

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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