Worshipable

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Capable of being worshipped.

    "The rampant vigor with which Japanese Buddhism began to absorb everything in heaven, earth and sea, which it could make a worshipable object or cause to stand as a Kami or deity to the mind, will be seen as we proceed."

  2. 2
    Worthy of worship.

    "So much of truth, only under an ancient obsolete vesture, but the spirit of it still true, do I find in the Paganism of old nations. Nature is still divine, the revelation of the workings of God; the Hero is still worshipable: this, under poor cramped incipient forms, is what all Pagan religions have struggled, as they could, to set forth."

Example

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"The rampant vigor with which Japanese Buddhism began to absorb everything in heaven, earth and sea, which it could make a worshipable object or cause to stand as a Kami or deity to the mind, will be seen as we proceed."

Etymology

From Middle English worschipable, worschypabull, worshepable, worshipable; equivalent to worship + -able.

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