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.

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