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Found 3 hits - Term: devil worship, Database: *, Strategy: prefix
[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
worship \wor"ship\, n. oe. worshipe, wurethscipe, as.
   weorethscipe; weoreth worth + -scipe -ship. see worth,
   a., and -ship.
   1913 webster
   1. excellence of character; dignity; worth; worthiness.
      obs. --shak.
      1913 webster

            a man of worship and honour.          --chaucer.
      1913 webster

            elfin, born of noble state,
            and muckle worship in his native land. --spenser.
      1913 webster

   2. honor; respect; civil deference. obs.
      1913 webster

            of which great worth and worship may be won.
                                                  --spenser.
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            then shalt thou have worship in the presence of them
            that sit at meat with thee.           --luke xiv.
                                                  10.
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   3. hence, a title of honor, used in addresses to certain
      magistrates and others of rank or station.
      1913 webster

            my father desires your worships' company. --shak.
      1913 webster

   4. the act of paying divine honors to the supreme being;
      religious reverence and homage; adoration, or acts of
      reverence, paid to god, or a being viewed as god. "god
      with idols in their worship joined." --milton.
      1913 webster

            the worship of god is an eminent part of religion,
            and prayer is a chief part of religious worship.
                                                  --tillotson.
      1913 webster

   5. obsequious or submissive respect; extravagant admiration;
      adoration.
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            't is your inky brows, your black silk hair,
            your bugle eyeballs, nor your cheek of cream,
            that can my spirits to your worship.  --shak.
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   6. an object of worship.
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            in attitude and aspect formed to be
            at once the artist's worship and despair.
                                                  --longfellow.
      1913 webster

   devil worship, fire worship, hero worship, etc. see
      under devil, fire, hero, etc.
      1913 webster
see also:
worth -ship devil worship fire worship hero worship devil 
fire hero 
[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
devil \dev"il\, n. as. de'ofol, de'oful; akin to g. ?eufel,
   goth. diaba'ulus; all fr. l. diabolus the devil, gr. ? the
   devil, the slanderer, fr. ? to slander, calumniate, orig., to
   throw across; ? across + ? to throw, let fall, fall; cf. skr.
   gal to fall. cf. diabolic.
   1. the evil one; satan, represented as the tempter and
      spiritual of mankind.
      1913 webster

            jesus being forty days tempted of the devil.
                                                  --luke iv. 2.
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            that old serpent, called the devil, and satan, which
            deceiveth the whole world.            --rev. xii. 9.
      1913 webster

   2. an evil spirit; a demon.
      1913 webster

            a dumb man possessed with a devil.    --matt. ix.
                                                  32.
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   3. a very wicked person; hence, any great evil. "that devil
      glendower." "the devil drunkenness." --shak.
      1913 webster

            have not i chosen you twelve, and one of you is a
            devil?                                --john vi. 70.
      1913 webster

   4. an expletive of surprise, vexation, or emphasis, or,
      ironically, of negation. low
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            the devil a puritan that he is, . . . but a
            timepleaser.                          --shak.
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            the things, we know, are neither rich nor rare,
            but wonder how the devil they got there. --pope.
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   5. cookery a dish, as a bone with the meat, broiled and
      excessively peppered; a grill with cayenne pepper.
      1913 webster

            men and women busy in baking, broiling, roasting
            oysters, and preparing devils on the gridiron. --sir
                                                  w. scott.
      1913 webster

   6. manuf. a machine for tearing or cutting rags, cotton,
      etc.
      1913 webster

   blue devils. see under blue.

   cartesian devil. see under cartesian.

   devil bird zool., one of two or more south african drongo
      shrikes edolius retifer, and edolius remifer,
      believed by the natives to be connected with sorcery.

   devil may care, reckless, defiant of authority; -- used
      adjectively. --longfellow.

   devil's apron bot., the large kelp laminaria
      saccharina, and laminaria longicruris of the atlantic
      ocean, having a blackish, leathery expansion, shaped
      somewhat like an apron.

   devil's coachhorse. zool.
      a the black rove beetle ocypus olens. eng.
      b a large, predacious, hemipterous insect prionotus
          cristatus; the wheel bug. u.s.

   devil's darning-needle. zool. see under darn, v. t.

   devil's fingers, devil's hand zool., the common british
      starfish asterias rubens; -- also applied to a sponge
      with stout branches. prov. eng., irish  scot.

   devil's riding-horse zool., the american mantis mantis
      carolina.

   the devil's tattoo, a drumming with the fingers or feet.
      "jack played the devil's tattoo on the door with his boot
      heels." --f. hardman blackw. mag..

   devil worship, worship of the power of evil; -- still
      practiced by barbarians who believe that the good and evil
      forces of nature are of equal power.

   printer's devil, the youngest apprentice in a printing
      office, who runs on errands, does dirty work as washing
      the ink rollers and sweeping, etc. "without fearing the
      printer's devil or the sheriff's officer." --macaulay.

   tasmanian devil zool., a very savage carnivorous
      marsupial of tasmania dasyurus ursinus syn. diabolus
      ursinus.

   to play devil with, to molest extremely; to ruin. low
      1913 webster
see also:
diabolic blue devils blue cartesian devil cartesian devil bird 
edolius retifer edolius remifer devil may care devil's apron laminaria saccharina 
laminaria longicruris devil's coachhorse ocypus olens prionotus cristatus devil's darning-needle 
darn devil's fingers devil's hand asterias rubens devil's riding-horse 
mantis carolina the devil's tattoo devil worship printer's devil tasmanian devil 
dasyurus ursinus diabolus ursinus to play devil with 
[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
44 moby thesaurus words for "devil worship":
   black mass, druidism, parsiism, sabaism, satanism, zoroastrianism,
   animal worship, black magic, chthonian worship, demonism,
   demonography, demonolatry, demonology, demonomancy, demonomy,
   demonry, devil lore, devilry, diablerie, diabolism, diabology,
   diabolology, fetishism, fire worship, heathenism, hero worship,
   iconoduly, iconolatry, idol worship, idolatrousness, idolatry,
   idolism, idolodulia, idolomancy, image worship, paganism,
   phallic worship, phallicism, pyrolatry, snake worship, sorcery,
   star worship, sun worship, tree worship





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