1. [n]  the activity of worshipping
2. [n]  a feeling of profound love and admiration
3. [v]  love unquestioningly and uncritically or to excess; venerate as an idol; "Many teenagers idolized the Beatles"
4. [v]  show religious devotion to, as of a deity; "Many Hindus worship Shiva"
5. [v]  attend religious services; "They worship in the traditional manner"

1. \Wor"ship\, n. [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.
   

2. \Wor"ship\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Worshiped}or
   {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.
   

3. \Wor"ship\, v. i.
   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.
   

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).