worshippest

Verb

worship (third-person singular simple present worships, present participle (US) worshiping or (UK) worshipping, simple past and past participle (US) worshiped or (UK) worshipped)

1. (transitive) 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.1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...

   Synonyms:

   adore, praise, exalt, glorify

2. (transitive) 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.c. 1639, Thomas Carew, The Poems and Masque of Thomas Carew, London: Reeves and Turner, published 1893, →OCLC, A Cruel Mistress, page 6
3. (intransitive) 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.2018, Lauren Connolly, You Only Need One

   Synonyms:

   canoodle, grope, caress, chuckle, coax, cosset, dally, dandle, dawt, faddle

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