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W0230400 (wûr′shĭp)n.1. a. The reverent love and devotion accorded a deity, an idol, or a sacred object.b. The ceremonies, prayers, or other religious forms by which this love is expressed: a chapel where worship is held daily.2. Ardent admiration or love; adoration: the worship of celebrities.3. often Worship Chiefly British Used as a form of address for magistrates, mayors, and certain other dignitaries: Your Worship.v. wor·shiped, wor·ship·ing, wor·ships or wor·shipped or wor·ship·ping v.tr.1. To honor and love as a deity.2. To regard with ardent or adoring esteem or devotion. See Synonyms at revere¹.v.intr. To participate in religious rites of worship.

[Middle English worshipe, worthiness, honor, from Old English weorthscipe : weorth, worth; see worth¹ + -scipe, -ship.]

wor′ship·er, wor′ship·per n.

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(ˈwɜːʃɪp) vb, -ships, -shipping or -shipped, -ships, -shiping or -shiped1. (Ecclesiastical Terms) (tr) to show profound religious devotion and respect to; adore or venerate (God or any person or thing considered divine)2. (tr) to be devoted to and full of admiration for3. (intr) to have or express feelings of profound adoration4. (Ecclesiastical Terms) (intr) to attend services for worship5. (tr) obsolete to honourn6. (Ecclesiastical Terms) religious adoration or devotion7. (Ecclesiastical Terms) the formal expression of religious adoration; rites, prayers, etc8. admiring love or devotion9. archaic dignity or standing[Old English weorthscipe, from worth¹ + -ship] ˈworshipable adj ˈworshipper, ˈworshiper n

Worship

(ˈwɜːʃɪp) n (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) chiefly Brit (preceded by: Your, His, or Her) a title used to address or refer to a mayor, magistrate, or a person of similar high rank

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n., v. -shiped or shipped, -ship•ing or -ship•ping. n. 1. reverent honor and homage paid to God or a sacred personage, or to any object regarded as sacred. 2. formal or ceremonious rendering of such honor and homage: to attend worship on Sundays. 3. adoring reverence or regard. 4. the object of adoring reverence or regard. 5. (cap.) Brit. and Canadian. a title of honor used of certain magistrates and others of high rank or station (usu. prec. by Your, His, or Her). v.t. 6. to render religious reverence and homage to. 7. to feel an adoring reverence or regard for (any person or thing). v.i. 8. to render religious reverence and homage, as to a deity. 9. to attend services of divine worship. 10. to feel an adoring reverence or regard. [before 900; (n.) Middle English wors(c)hipe, worthssipe, Old English worthscipe, variant of weorthscipe; see worth¹, -ship] wor′ship•er, n.

Worship

of writers: authors collectively—Bk. of St. Albans, 1486.

worship

Past participle: worshipped
Gerund: worshipping

Imperative
worship
worship

Present
I worship
you worship
he/she/it worships
we worship
you worship
they worship

Preterite
I worshipped
you worshipped
he/she/it worshipped
we worshipped
you worshipped
they worshipped

Present Continuous
I am worshipping
you are worshipping
he/she/it is worshipping
we are worshipping
you are worshipping
they are worshipping

Present Perfect
I have worshipped
you have worshipped
he/she/it has worshipped
we have worshipped
you have worshipped
they have worshipped

Past Continuous
I was worshipping
you were worshipping
he/she/it was worshipping
we were worshipping
you were worshipping
they were worshipping

Past Perfect
I had worshipped
you had worshipped
he/she/it had worshipped
we had worshipped
you had worshipped
they had worshipped

Future
I will worship
you will worship
he/she/it will worship
we will worship
you will worship
they will worship

Future Perfect
I will have worshipped
you will have worshipped
he/she/it will have worshipped
we will have worshipped
you will have worshipped
they will have worshipped

Future Continuous
I will be worshipping
you will be worshipping
he/she/it will be worshipping
we will be worshipping
you will be worshipping
they will be worshipping

Present Perfect Continuous
I have been worshipping
you have been worshipping
he/she/it has been worshipping
we have been worshipping
you have been worshipping
they have been worshipping

Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been worshipping
you will have been worshipping
he/she/it will have been worshipping
we will have been worshipping
you will have been worshipping
they will have been worshipping

Past Perfect Continuous
I had been worshipping
you had been worshipping
he/she/it had been worshipping
we had been worshipping
you had been worshipping
they had been worshipping

Conditional
I would worship
you would worship
he/she/it would worship
we would worship
you would worship
they would worship

Past Conditional
I would have worshipped
you would have worshipped
he/she/it would have worshipped
we would have worshipped
you would have worshipped
they would have worshipped

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	worship - the activity of worshippingactivity - any specific behavior; "they avoided all recreational activity"apotheosis, deification, exaltation - the elevation of a person (as to the status of a god)ancestor worship - worship of ancestorsprayer, supplication - the act of communicating with a deity (especially as a petition or in adoration or contrition or thanksgiving); "the priest sank to his knees in prayer"idolisation, idolization - the act of worshiping blindly and to excesslatria, adoration - the worship given to God aloneidol worship, idolatry - the worship of idols; the worship of images that are not Godidolatry, veneration, cultism, devotion - religious zeal; the willingness to serve Godautolatry, idiolatry, self-worship - the worship of yourselfarborolatry, tree-worship - the worship of treesastrolatry, worship of heavenly bodies - the worship of planets or starscosmolatry - the worship of the cosmosdemonolatry, devil-worship, diabolatry - the acts or rites of worshiping devilsfire-worship, pyrolatry - the worship of firehagiolatry, hierolatry - the worship of saintsheliolatry, sun-worship - the worship of the sunanimal-worship, zoolatry - the worship of animalsmonolatry - the worship of a single god but without claiming that it is the only godmoon-worship, selenolatry - the worship of the moonsalaah, salaat, salah, salat - the second pillar of Islam is prayer; a prescribed liturgy performed five times a day (preferably in a mosque) and oriented toward Meccapraise - offering words of homage as an act of worship; "they sang a hymn of praise to God"
	2.	worship - a feeling of profound love and admirationadorationlove - a strong positive emotion of regard and affection; "his love for his work"; "children need a lot of love"
Verb	1.	worship - love unquestioningly and uncritically or to excess; venerate as an idol; "Many teenagers idolized the Beatles"hero-worship, idolise, idolize, revereadore - love intensely; "he just adored his wife"drool over, slobber over - envy without restraint
	2.	worship - show devotion to (a deity); "Many Hindus worship Shiva"faith, religion, religious belief - a strong belief in a supernatural power or powers that control human destiny; "he lost his faith but not his morality"reverence, venerate, revere, fear - regard with feelings of respect and reverence; consider hallowed or exalted or be in awe of; "Fear God as your father"; "We venerate genius"
	3.	worship - attend religious services; "They worship in the traditional manner"attend, go to - be present at (meetings, church services, university), etc.; "She attends class regularly"; "I rarely attend services at my church"; "did you go to the meeting?"offer up, offer - present as an act of worship; "offer prayers to the gods"

worship

verb1. praise, respect, honour, adore, revere, glorify, reverence, exalt, laud, pray to, venerate, deify, adulate people who still worship the pagan gods
praise mock, ridicule, deride, flout, scoff at, revile, dishonour, blaspheme2. love, adore, idolize, put on a pedestal The children worship their father.
love despise, disdain, spurnnoun1. praise, love, regard, respect, honour, glory, prayer(s), devotion, homage, reverence, adulation, adoration, admiration, exaltation, glorification, deification, laudation The temple had been a centre of worship of the goddess Hathor.

worship

noun1. The act of adoring, especially reverently:adoration, idolization, reverence, veneration.2. Deep and ardent affection:adoration, devotion, love.verb1. To regard with great awe and devotion:adore, idolize, revere, reverence, venerate.2. To feel deep, devoted love for:adore, love.

Translations

崇拜热爱爱慕礼拜

worship

(ˈwəːʃip) – past tense, past participle ˈworshipped , (American) ˈworshiped – verb1. to pay great honour to. to worship God.崇拜2. to love or admire very greatly. She worships her older brother. 热爱，爱慕 noun the act of worshipping. A church is a place of worship; the worship of God / of money.礼拜ˈworshipper noun礼拜者

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worship

1. religious adoration or devotion 2. the formal expression of religious adoration; rites, prayers, etc.

Worship

Chiefly Brit a title used to address or refer to a mayor, magistrate, or a person of similar high rank

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(religion, spiritualism, and occult)

The word comes from "worth-ship," meaning dignity, honor, respect and reverence. In religion it is used in a sense of reverence to deities. Worship is usually a group of people with similar beliefs coming together to give thanks to their deities, often with specific rituals at certain times of the year. In Witchcraft there are the eight main sabbat ceremonies plus the weekly or monthly esbat rites. The gods of life and of nature—the male and female principles of all life are worshiped.

The Old Religion worship is performed in groups, known as covens, and also by individuals or Solitaries. The covens are led by a priest and a priestess who represent the god of nature and the goddess of fertility. In Witchcraft it is believed that all are their own priest or priestess, and so able to worship alone if preferred.

Documentary evidence of the worship of Nerthus, Mother Earth, is found in England well after Norman times, as evidenced by her nude effigies found in more than a dozen eleventh and twelfth century churches. There is also a twelfth century medical treatise (Ms Harl. 1585, fol. 12a) which says: Holy Goddess of Earth, parent of Nature, who dost generate all things, and regenerate the planet which thou alone showest to the folk upon earth. . . Thou givest us food in safety by a perpetual covenant; and when our soul fleeth away, it is in thy bosom that we find our haven of rest. Thou too art called by the lovingkindness of the gods, the Great Mother, who hast conquered the god of Mighty Name.

The need to worship, and the aversion to changing beliefs, is reflected in the

Bible passage (Jeremiah, 44:15-19): Then all the men which knew that their wives had burned incense unto other gods, and all the women that stood by, a great multitude,

even all the people that dwelt in the land of Egypt, in Pathros, answered Jeremiah saying: "As for the word that thou hast spoken unto us in the name of the Lord, we will not hearken unto thee. But we will certainly do whatsoever thing goeth forth out of our own mouth, to burn incense unto the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her, as we have done, we, and our fathers, our kings, and our princes, in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem: for then had we plenty of victuals, and were well, and saw no evil. But since we left off to burn incense to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her, we have wanted all things, and have been consumed by the sword and by the famine. And when we burned incense to the queen of heaven, and poured out drink offerings unto her, did we make our cakes to worship her, and pour out drink offerings unto her, without our men."

This explains the slowness of the New Religion (Christianity) in its efforts to oust the Old Religion. For generations the people had worshiped their ancient deities, seeing the relationship of the gods to the earth and to all life. They had developed a close relationship with these deities and with Mother Earth. There was understandable hesitancy to abandon what had been known for so long for an upstart god, however much his worship was enforced by the authorities. By the tenth and eleventh centuries, many priests continued to lead their people in the worship of both the gods of the Old Religion and the New. In 1282 a village priest at Inverkeithing, Scotland, was severely reprimanded for leading his parishioners in a fertility dance which included a phallic symbol. In 1303 the Bishop of Coventry, Walter de Langton, was accused of paying homage to a deity in the form of a goat. Many local priests would serve their pagan flock during the week and go through the motions of Christian worship only on Sundays.

Worship can give a sense of purpose to life and also a sense of worth to the individual. Wicca has been called the fastest growing religious movement in the United States. Reasons include the form of worship and the freedom from strict rules and rulership. The participants are free to express their feelings for deity in the ways that make most sense to them and which give them the greatest satisfaction.

What does it mean when you dream about worship?

A dream about worship can embody a straightforward religious meaning. It could also be a representation of something that we adore, as in the expression “He worships the ground she walks on.”

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verb praise

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verb love

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noun praise

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noun the act of adoring, especially reverently

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noun deep and ardent affection

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verb to regard with great awe and devotion

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verb to feel deep, devoted love for

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noun the activity of worshipping

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noun a feeling of profound love and admiration

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verb love unquestioningly and uncritically or to excess

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verb show devotion to (a deity)

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verb attend religious services

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