worship

name

1. A surname.

noun

1. A form of address of a mayor and other dignitaries
2. A form of address of a mayor.

verb

Etymology: Inherited from Middle English worschippe /worthschipe, inherited from Old English weorþsċiepe. Cognate with Scots worschip (“worship”). By surface analysis, wor(th) + -ship.

1. To reverence (a deity, etc.) with supreme respect and veneration; to perform religious exercises in honour of.

   “[…] well ſaid yfaith neighbour Verges, God's a good man, and two men ride of a horſe, one muſt ride behinde, an honeſt ſoule yfaith ſir, by my troth he is, as euer broke bread, but God is to bee worſhipt, all men are not alike, alas good neighbour.”

   “When all our Fathers worſhip't Stocks and Stones, […]”

2. To honour with extravagant love and extreme submission, as a lover; to adore; to idolize.

   “With bended knees I daily worship her, / Yet she consumes her own Idolater.”

   ““[…] And she would sit in the car and pretend to hold the wheel. All the household worshipped her! Even the police came to understand that. Ah, the beautiful little one!””

3. To participate in religious ceremonies.

   “We worship at the church down the road.”

4. To touch, fondle, or kiss in an intensely sensual way.

   “The kiss is heady and passionate. I show him how far we are from being over by worshipping him with my lips.”

   “He moves lower to worship my breasts with his mouth, his teeth raking lightly over my nipple with the perfect amount of friction to build the pleasure coiling tight within me.”