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Worschip, v. Also: wor(s)chipe, vorschip, wirs(c)hip, -schep(e, -chip, -op, virschip, -epe, wyrsc(h)ip, wours(c)hip, -schyp, werschip. [ME and e.m.E. wurðsup(en (c1200), worchip(en (c1275), wirschip(pe (both Cursor M.), worship(en (Wyclif).]

1. tr.To honour, revere as God, to venerate, worship (God, etc.). b. To honour, revere, hold in similar esteem (a thing, etc.). c. absol.or intr. To engage in an act of worship.pres. a1400 Leg. S. x 274.
Hym [to] worschipe & honour a1400 Leg. S. xxxviii 341.
Worchipe 14… Edinb. Univ. MS La.ii.318.
To serue Gode & Him worschip c1552 Lynd. Mon. 2423.
Daniell … wald nocht worschip thare fals idoll Bell 1551 Hamilton Cat. 37.
Thou sal nocht mak to thé (as gods) ony gravit ymage … Thow sal nocht adorne thame, nor worschip thame (as goddis) 1561 Q. Kennedy Compendious Ressonyng (ed.) 154/14.
Abraham … inventit wayes … to worschip God a1578 Pitsc. I 309/4.
Thow sayis that it was not lesum to worschip imagerie c1590 J. Stewart 225 § 103.
O lat ws vorschip this our goddes deir [sc. Vice] Quha dois content our fleschlie lustis heir 1596 Dalr. I 142/16.
Mony forsaiking thair vane superstitiouns and doctrines of deuilis, began to worschipe the true God(b) a1400 Leg. S. xlvi 135.
I honoure a God ay, & virschepe Hyme in hart I sal c1510 Prester John 310.
To wyt … our regionis our landis and quhat god we wyrscip 1513 Doug. iii ii 21.
We yschit furth of schip The cite of Apollo to wirschip [Ruddim. wourship; L. veneramur] 1513 Doug. iii vi 155.
First of Juno thou wirschip [Ruddim. wourschip; L. adora] the gret mycht, And [etc.] 1513 Doug. vi Prol. 136.
Wirschepe 1513 Doug. vii ii 69.
He dyd wirschip [Ruddim. wourschyp] and gan in prayeris call Erth, the gret moder 1533 Gau 4/32.
Ve suld alanerlie lowe and virschip and honour the Lord God our maker 1533 Bell. Livy I 19/9 (B) (see (c) below).
Wirchop c1552 Lynd. Mon. 2268.
Kyng Salomone … did committ idolatrye, Wyrschipyng caruit ymagerye 1567 G. Ball. 54.
We wirschip and we loue and pryse, Thy maiestie and magnitude 1567 G. Ball. 197.
Preistis, wirschip God, And put away ȝour imagerie a1570-86 Maitl. F. 198/55.
Thair we sing bayth most and leist Blyssit be that natiuitas And ever sall wirschip that halie feist 1558-66 Knox I 159.
A peice of braid backin upone the aschis, ye adore and wirschip 1596 Dalr. II 5/32.
With all and due deuotioune vpon thair knies to wirschep the image of Chryst(c) 1513 Doug. iii vi 155 (Ruddim.) (see (b) above).
Wourschip 1513 Doug. vii ii 69 (Ruddim.) (see (b) above).
Wourschyp 1533 Bell. Livy I 19/9.
That ȝoung men suld ryn nakit in thare lust and insolence, to wourschip [B. wirchop] pan Liceusp.t. c1420 Wynt. v 179 (W).
Thai twa fell dragonis kene Fra thai the barnis [sc. Christ's] hede had sene … with aw Thai kest thare hedis doune weill law, And worschippit thaim c1520-c1535 Nisbet Matth. ii 11.
Thai … fand the child with Marie His moder, and thai fel doun and wirschipit Him c1520-c1535 Nisbet Matth. viii 2.
Wirschippit 1551 Hamilton Cat. 148.
Certane kingis … fande Him, wyrschippit Him and offerit to Him, gold, sence and myrp.p. 1490 Irland Mir. III 4/26.
Watter oile [etc.] … and … wourdis that God has said … suld be … iugit haly thai suld be callit sacramentis and gretlie honorit worschippit for Jhesus werray God and man has ordand thame for our salvacioun 1561 Q. Kennedy Compendious Ressonyng (ed.) 150/10.
The sacrifice of the mes is to be worschippit with all men c1590 Fowler II 52/18.
Moyses was thair principall pasteur … be quhais voyce God spake vnto his people. Bot it followis not that Moyses suld bene inuocat or worshipped(b) 1551 Hamilton Cat. 52.
This command forbiddis to mak ymagis to that effeck, that thai suld be adornit and wirschippit as goddis 1558-66 Knox I 8.
Wirschepped(c) 1561 Q. Kennedy Oratioune 11.
Thai biggit thair templis … to the entent that thair ydolis sulde be werschippit tharinto as the leving Godb. ?1438 Alex. ii 7011.
Ay throw geuing … [Man] hes of the gude cumpany Geuin our all hes lordship, For geuin dois men wirship c1450-2 Howlat 503 (A).
Thus feile feildis he wan aye worschipand [B. wirchipand] it [sc. the heart] 1562-3 Winȝet I 41/18.
Giue ȝe … hes worschippit and adornit erroures, hereseis, and leis for the eternall veritie of Godis wordc. 1513 Doug. xiii ii 23.
With platis full the altaris by and by Thai can do charge, and wirschipis with fat lyre c1520-c1535 Nisbet Luke xxiv 52.
Thai wirschipand went agane into Jerusalem with gret joy 1622-6 Bisset II 163/7.
The Druedes … wirschipped … under greit aik tries

2. tr.To show honour or respect to (a person). b. To honour with gifts. c1500-c1512 Dunb. (OUP) 17/51 (B).
Fader and moder to wirschep [M. wirschip] at all hour c1520-c1535 Nisbet Matth. vi 2.
Quhen thou dois almes, will thou nocht blaw trumpet befor thee, as ypocritis dois in synagogis and stretis, that thai be wirschipit of men a1568 Bann. MS 44b/60.
Thy maister wirschep and honourb. 1460 Hay Alex. 4635.
He wist it was ane gift of Goddis grace And … on kneis he fell … Sayand ‘The name of God mot blissit be That thus into this wardlit had wourschipit me’