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One who devotes; a worshiper.

A worshiper; one given to devotion. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

A fruit tree (D. zibethinus, the only species known) of the Indian Archipelago. It bears the durian.

A deity recognized as real but conceived as not acting in human affairs, hence not worshiped.

posture; to become prostrate; to drop; as, a child totters and falls; a tree falls; a worshiper falls on his knees. I fell at his feet to worship him. Rev. xix. 10.

ncluding the mangosteen tree (Garcinia Mangostana), found in the islands of the Indian Archipelago; -- so called in honor of Dr. Garcin.

One of a non-Jewish nation; one neither a Jew nor a Christian; a worshiper of false gods; a heathen.

A worshiper of fire; a Zoroastrian; a Parsee.

rship, etc.; a divinity; a deity; an object of worship; an idol. He maketh a god, and worshipeth it. Is. xliv. 15. The race of Israel . . . bowing lowly down To bestial gods. Milton.

A fire worshiper; a Gheber or Gueber. Tylor.

A concrete juice produced by various trees found in the Malayan archipelago, especially by the Isonandra, or Dichopsis, Gutta. It becomes soft, and unpressible at the tamperature of boiling water, and, on cooling, retains its new shape. It dissolves in oils and ethers, but not in water. In many of its properties it res…

To attend, or be present at, as hearer or worshiper; as, to hear a concert; to hear Mass.

A worshiper of the sun.

itive religion in which each of several divinities is regarded as independent, and is worshiped without reference to the rest. [R.]

A worshiper of idols; one who pays divine honors to images, statues, or representations of anything made by hands; one who worships as a deity that which is not God; a pagan.

A female worshiper of idols.

A worshiper of idols. [Obs.] Milton.

A worshiper of fire. [R.]

To sacrifice; to offer in sacrifice; to kill, as a sacrificial victim. Worshipers, who not only immolate to them [the deities] the lives of men, but . . . the virtue and honor of women. Boyle.

unite with a material body; to give a material form to; to embody. The idolaters, who worshiped their images as golds, supposed some spirit to be incorporated therein. Bp. Stillingfleet.