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   Worship , n. [OE. worshipe, wurðscipe, AS. weorðscipe; weorð worth + -scipe -ship. See Worth, a., and -ship.]
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   Excellence of character; dignity; worth; worthiness. [Obs.]
   Shak.
   
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   A man of worship and honour.
   Chaucer.
   
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   Elfin, born of noble state,
   And muckle worship in his native land.
   Spenser.
   
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   Honor; respect; civil deference. [Obs.]
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   Of which great worth and worship may be won.
   Spenser.
   
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   Then shalt thou have worship in the presence of them that sit at meat with thee.
   Luke xiv. 10.
   
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   Hence, a title of honor, used in addresses to certain magistrates and others of rank or station.
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   My father desires your worships' company.
   Shak.
   
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   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.
   
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   The worship of God is an eminent part of religion, and prayer is a chief part of religious worship.
   Tillotson.
   
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   Obsequious or submissive respect; extravagant admiration; adoration.
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   '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.
   
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   An object of worship.
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   In attitude and aspect formed to be
   At once the artist's worship and despair.
   Longfellow.
   
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   Devil worship, Fire worship, Hero worship, etc. See under Devil, Fire, Hero, etc.
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   Worship, 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.
   
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   Our grave . . . shall have a tongueless mouth,
   Not worshiped with a waxen epitaph.
   Shak.
   
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   This holy image that is man God worshipeth.
   Foxe.
   
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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.
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   But God is to be worshiped.
   Shak.
   
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   When all our fathers worshiped stocks and stones.
   Milton.
   
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   To honor with extravagant love and extreme submission, as a lover; to adore; to idolize.
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   With bended knees I daily worship her.
   Carew.
   
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   Syn. -- To adore; revere; reverence; bow to; honor.
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   Worship , v. i. To perform acts of homage or adoration; esp., to perform religious service.
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   Our fathers worshiped in this mountain; and ye say that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship.
   John iv. 20.
   
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   Was it for this I have loved . . . and worshiped in silence?
   Longfellow.
   
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