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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Worship \Wor"ship\, noun [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.
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 The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Worship \Wor"ship\, verb (used without an object) 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.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
worship
noun
1: the activity of worshipping
2: a feeling of profound love and admiration [syn: {adoration}]
verb
1: love unquestioningly and uncritically or to excess; venerate as an idol; "Many teenagers idolized the Beatles" [syn: {idolize}, {idolise}, {hero-worship}, {revere}]
2: show devotion to (a deity); "Many Hindus worship Shiva"
3: attend religious services; "They worship in the traditional manner" [also: {worshipping}, {worshipped}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
125 Moby Thesaurus words for "worship": Amor, Christian love, Eros, Platonic love, accord respect to, admiration, admire, adoration, adore, affection, agape, apotheosis, apotheosize, appreciate, appreciation, approbation, approval, ardency, ardor, attachment, awe, bodily love, breathless adoration, brotherly love, caritas, charity, cherish, churchgoing, conformity, conjugal love, consideration, courtesy, cultism, dearly love, defer to, deference, deification, deify, desire, devotedness, devotion, devoutness, do homage to, do service, dote, dutifulness, duty, entertain respect for, esteem, estimation, exaggerated respect, exalt, faith, faithful love, faithfulness, fancy, favor, fervor, flame, fondness, free love, free-lovism, great respect, heart, hero worship, hero-worship, high regard, hold dear, hold in esteem, hold in reverence, homage, honor, idolatry, idolism, idolization, idolize, lasciviousness, libido, like, liking, look up to, love, love of God, love to distraction, lovemaking, married love, observance, passion, pay homage to, physical love, pietism, piety, piousness, popular regard, popularity, prestige, prize, regard, religion, religionism, religiousness, respect, revere, reverence, reverential regard, sentiment, sex, sexual love, shine, spiritual love, tender feeling, tender passion, theism, think highly of, think much of, think well of, treasure, truelove, uxoriousness, value, venerate, veneration, weakness, worshipfulness, yearning
From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:
WORSHIP, noun Homo Creator's testimony to the sound construction and fine finish of Deus Creatus. A popular form of abjection, having an element of pride.
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
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).
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