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     #990.  Worship.—­ N. worship, adoration, devotion, aspiration, homage,
service, humiliation; kneeling, genuflection, prostration.
     prayer, invocation, supplication, rogation, intercession, orison, holy
breathing; petition &c. (request) 765; collect, litany, Lord’s prayer, paternoster[Lat]; beadroll[obs3]; latria[obs3], dulia[obs3], hyperdulia[obs3], vigils; revival; cult; anxious meeting, camp meeting; ebenezer, virginal.
     thanksgiving; giving thanks, returning thanks; grace, praise,
glorification, benediction, doxology, hosanna; hallelujah, allelujah[obs3]; Te Deum[Lat], non nobis Domine[Lat], nunc dimittis[Lat]; paean; benschen[Ger]; Ave Maria, O Salutaris, Sanctus[Lat], The Annunciation, Tersanctus, Trisagion.
     psalm, psalmody; hymn, plain song, chant, chaunt, response, anthem,
motet; antiphon[obs3], antiphony.
     oblation, sacrifice, incense, libation; burnt offering, heave
offering, votive offering; offertory.
     discipline; self-discipline, self-examination, self-denial; fasting.
     divine service, office, duty; exercises; morning prayer; mass, matins,
evensong, vespers; undernsong[obs3], tierce[obs3]; holyday &c. (rites) 998.
     worshipper, congregation, communicant, celebrant. 
     V. worship, lift up the heart, aspire; revere &c. 928; adore, do
service, pay homage; humble oneself, kneel; bow the knee, bend the knee; fall down, fall on one’s knees; prostrate oneself, bow down and worship.
     pray, invoke, supplicate; put up, offer up prayers, offer petitions;
beseech &c. (ask) 765; say one’s prayers, tell one’s beads.
     return thanks, give thanks; say grace, bless, praise, laud, glorify,
magnify, sing praises; give benediction, lead the choir, intone; deacon, deacon off
     propitiate[U.S.], offer sacrifice, fast, deny oneself; vow, offer
vows, give alms.
     work out one’s salvation; go to church; attend service, attend mass;
communicate &c. (rite) 998. 
     Adj. worshipping &c.v.; devout, devotional, reverent, pure, solemn;
fervid &c. (heartfelt) 821. 
     Int. hallelujah, allelujah[obs3]! hosanna! glory be to God!  O Lord!
pray God that!  God grant, God bless, God save, God forbid! sursum corda [Lat]. 
     Phr. “making their lives a prayer” [Whittier]; ora et labora[Lat];
“prayers ardent open heaven” [Young].

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     #991.  Idolatry. —­ N. idolatry, idolism[obs3]; demonism[obs3],
demonolatry[obs3]; idol-worship, demon-worship, devil-worship, fire-worship; zoolatry, fetishism, fetichism; ecclesiolatry[obs3], heliolatry, Mariolatry, Bibliolatry[obs3].
     deification, apotheosis, canonization; hero worship.
     sacrifices, hecatomb, holocaust; human sacrifices, immolation,
mactation[obs3], infanticide, self-immolation, suttee.
     idol, golden calf, graven image, fetich, avatar, Juggernath[obs3],
lares et penates[Lat]; Baal &c. 986[obs3]. 
     V. worship idols, worship pictures, worship relics; deify, canonize. 
     Adj. idolatrous. 
     Phr. adorer le veau d’or[Fr].