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with deference and submission; when used of the Supreme Being, to reverence; to adore; to worship. Honor thy father and thy mother. Ex. xx. 12. That all men should honor the Son, even as they honor the Father. John v. 23. It is a custom More honor'd in the breach than the observance. Shak.

To praise in song; to worship or extol by singing hymns; to sing. To hymn the bright of the Lord. Keble. Their praise is hymned by loftier harps than mine. Byron.

Veneration or worship given to the Virgin Mary as the most exalted of mere creatures; higher veneration than dulia. Addis & Arnold.

Worship of fishes, or of fish-shaped idols. Layard.

A breaker or destroyer of images or idols; a determined enemy of idol worship.

One who worships images.

The worship of images as symbols; -- distinguished from idolatry, the worship of images themselves.

Hostility to images as objects of worship. [R.]

Opposed to pictures or images as objects of worship. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

Self-worship; excessive self-esteem.

esentation or symbol of a deity or any other being or thing, made or used as an object of worship; a similitude of a false god. That they should not worship devils, and idols of gold. Rev. ix. 20.

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.

To worship idols; to pay idolatrous worship.

or pertaining to idolatry; partaking of the nature of idolatry; given to idolatry or the worship of false gods; as, idolatrous sacrifices. [Josiah] put down the idolatrous priests. 2 Kings xxiii. 5.

The worship of idols, images, or anything which is not God; the worship of false gods. His eye surveyed the dark idolatries Of alienated Judah. Milton.

The worship of idols. [Obs.]

A worshiper of idols. [Obs.] Milton.

To make an idol of; to pay idolatrous worship to; as, to idolize the sacred bull in Egypt.

A worshiper of fire. [R.]