Obsequious or submissive respect; extravagant admiration; adoration.
To respect; to honor; to treat with civil reverence.
To pay divine honors to; to reverence with supreme respect and veneration; to perform religious exercises in honor of; to adore; to venerate.
To honor with extravagant love and extreme submission, as a lover; to adore; to idolize.
To perform acts of homage or adoration; esp., to perform religious service.
The act of prayer or actions dedicated to praising God.
idolization of an object or person.
Reverence, honor, or devotion given to God.
Reverent devotion; veneration; religious devotion.
Adoring and / or loving a person, a person's body or body part, or a thing in a reverential manner - such as boots.
The worship of false gods was alwas a temptation in Israel, which the centralization of worship in Jurusalem was partly designed to combat. The prophets also insisted the sacrifice must express interior dispositions, and insistence schoed in the New Testament. Prayer and instructon in common was a feature of the early Christian communities.
a feeling of profound love and admiration
love unquestioningly and uncritically or to excess; venerate as an idol; "Many teenagers idolized the Beatles"
show devotion to (a deity); "Many Hindus worship Shiva"
attend religious services; "They worship in the traditional manner"
Reverence paid to a divine being.
giving reverent attention to God
Literally, "to bow down." In the Christian sense worship is the adoration of God through participation in the services of the Church, the highest act of a Christian (John 4:19-24). See also LITURGY.
Reverence of an object or person
giving honour to God, for example, in a public context such as a church service with prayers, songs, readings and sermons
to honor and thank God by prayer and/or singing
The expression of love and devotion to God through participation in Divine rites and/or services and through personal player.
verb, to show religious respect or devotion to; venerate
Worship is the paying of homage to someone or something greater than ourselves. Christian worship is directed always and only to the Triune God. Public worship in the Lutheran Church involves not only prayer, praise, and thanksgiving to God, but also listening to the reading and proclamation of God's Word and receiving the sacraments.
A be very humble to someone else, in the vain hope that they will grant you a wish. Worship may involve icons, idols, sacrifices, large cheques sent to the Bahamas, prayer, and drinking Kool-aid. One of the more unusual practices of worship took place amongst the Pangoylegoatsoup Sect of the early 1920s. These were a bunch of people so frightened of the imminent rise of the Anti-Christ, Byllierae Sirus, that they ritually set fire to their own hair, and chased shaven goats through the streets. Some dismissed them as loonies, but who's laughing now, eh
Worship usually refers to specific acts of religious praise, honour, or devotion, typically directed to a supernatural being such as a god or goddess. It is the informal term in English for what sociologists of religion call cultus, the body of practices and traditions that correspond to theology.