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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Worship \Wor"ship\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Worshiped}{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.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
worshiping
adjective: 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
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