worshiping

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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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