Worshiping

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Worship \Wor"ship\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Worshiped}{Worshipped};
     p. pr. & vb. n. {Worshiping} or {Worshipping}.]
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     1. 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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     2. 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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     3. 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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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  worshiping
       adj : that is at worship; "a worshiping group" [syn: {worshipping}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  46 Moby Thesaurus words for "worshiping":
     admiring, adorant, adoration, adoring, apotheosizing, awed,
     awestricken, awestruck, co-worship, cult, cultism, cultus,
     deifying, devotion, devotional, devout, dulia, hero-worshiping,
     homage, hyperdulia, idolatrous, idolatry, idolizing, imploring,
     in awe, in the dust, latria, on bended knee, prayerful, precative,
     precatory, prostrate before, prostration, reverence, reverent,
     reverential, solemn, suppliant, supplicant, supplicatory,
     transcendent wonder, veneration, venerational, venerative, worship,
     worshipful