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worshipfuladj.n.adv. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: worship n., -ful suffix. Etymology: < worship n. + -ful suffix. A. adj.the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > excellence > [adjective] > and noble or magnificent 1340 (1866) 80 Vor uirtue is þing wel worþssipuol, lostuol, and uremuol. a1382 (Bodl. 959) (1963) Ruth iii. 3 Be wasschyn þanne & anoynt & cloþed wiþ þe more worschepeful cloþes & go down in to þe floor. a1400 Psalter (Vesp.) lxxi. 14 in C. Horstmann (1896) II. 203 Worschepfulle [L. præclarum] þe name of þa Bifore hime it sal be swa. a1425 (c1395) (Royal) (1850) Gen. xxviii. 17 Hou worschipful [L. terribilis] is this place! a1440 in W. W. Shirley (1858) 438 I byleve that the moost worschipful sacrament of the auter is Crystis body in fourme of bred. 1479 in M. Sellers (1912) I. 171 The mare of this said wirshupfull cite for tyme beyng. a1500 (?c1450) v. 85 He..seide that so high and wurschipful a-mendes dide neuer a lorde to his man. 1508 J. Fisher sig. rr.viiv He shall gyue vs power to preche.., whiche shall be a very worshypfull offyce. 1560 Bp. J. Pilkington (1562) 182 They shall finde mo worshipfull names geven to the preachinge minister, then to any one sorte of men. ?1578 W. Patten 1 I am placed at Coourt heer (as ye wot) in a woorshipfull room. 1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden i. 175 When this right worshipful title [of knighthood] was by the Prince conferred upon one. a1661 T. Fuller (1662) Suff. 65 His Posterity still flourish in a Worshipful equipage at Nacton. 1687 34 No Romance can furnish us with such pleasant and worshipful Tales. 1701 C. Cibber Ep. Ded. sig. A2 Men of Right Worshipful, and petitioning Principles, that wou'd Reform, and Level most things. 1759 1 Feb. Those [authors] who display but a single sheet at a time may be allowed, with some propriety, to assume this worshipful title [sc. Esquire]. 1826 W. Scott I. ii. 39 Will he give us the remains of his worshipful and economical house-keeping? 1871 E. A. Freeman IV. xxi. 626 Whether standing or sitting, his look was worshipful and kingly. 1876 ‘G. Eliot’ III. v. xxxvii. 113 Isn't that better than painting a piece of staring immodesty and calling it by a worshipful name? 1910 June The low, calm line of the Magonigle design, its general air of restful, quiet, worshipful dignity went straight from the heart of the man to his drafting board. 2007 17 82 Gareth's ascent through the sequence of heraldic colors as an emblem for..the institution of worshipful chivalric conduct. the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > reputation > good repute > [adjective] > bringing credit or honour (to) 1340 (1866) 259 (MED) Nou is hit..guod þing and oneste, profitable, and worþssipuol to man an to wyfman..þet hi loki sceluolle mesure ine berynge, ine contenonce. a1400 tr. Lanfranc (Ashm.) (1894) 46 Þer is no þing more worschipful to a leche..þan to kepe a lyme woundid fro swellynge. ?c1430 (c1383) J. Wyclif (1880) 14 And ȝif þei seyn þat grete chirchis ben worschipful to god [etc.]. 1470 M. Paston in (2004) I. 366 Þat shuld not be wurchepfull for you, for men shull not than set be you. 1474 W. Caxton tr. (1883) ii. v. 63 For he had oppynyon that hit was as worshipfull and fittynge to a kynge to pardone, as to punysshe. ?1504 W. Atkinson tr. Thomas à Kempis (Pynson) iii. liv. sig. Oi Aske thou therfore nat such thinges as be delectable or profytable to the: but suche as be worshypfull [printed worshypfnll] to me. ?1567 Pref. f. 8v What ye shal thinke meete, as it maie be to God his glory, honourable to the realme, worshipfull to your selues, and profitable to all our assuraunces. 3. society > faith > worship > [adjective] > worthy of c1350 Psalter (BL Add. 17376) in K. D. Bülbring (1891) xcv. 4 (MED) Our Lord ys michel and worþshipful and dredeful vp alle godes. a1382 (Bodl. 959) (1961) Num. xxix. 7 Þe tenþe..day of þis seuynþe monþe shal be to ȝow holy & worchepfol. c1400 Expos. Ten Commandments (Simeon) in (1942) 321 (MED) In name of Ihesu eueri kne..schal bowe, For hit is so heiȝ and so worschipful þat þe cursede fend of helle schulde tremble to heere hit nempned. c1450 (c1415) in W. O. Ross (1940) 163 (MED) I may shewe you be iij worshippfull persones þat are now in þe blis of heven—God brynge vs all þer-to. a1500 (Tanner) (1928) l. 72 (MED) Joachym was borne..in þe Cete of nazareth that wurchepful is. 1685 S. Wesley (new ed.) 134 The worshipful God-heads of Ægypt. 1738 (new ed.) IV. 700/1 Thorp replied, That since every thing that God made was very good, they are all worshipful for the End that God made them. 1798 J. Gilchrist 122/2 ‘Pray tell me on what account you have come.’ They replied, ‘worshipful saint, there is a princess named Budur Mooneer’. 1850 H. Ruffner I. iii. 100 The Pope of Rome canonized him, that is, made him a worshipful saint in heaven. 1901 19 Jan. 72/3 The theory of transmigration of ancestral souls into worshipful plants and animals. 1941 61 78/1 Save us, ye worshipful gods , from falling into the ditch. 1982 62 352 Since a being must be ‘perfect’ in order to be worshipful..one will be prepared to attribute to such a being only those specifically cosmological functions that one evaluates as capable of manifesting..surpassingness. 2006 42 311 If worshipfulness does not follow from the essence of God then we need some additional reason to think that God has the property of being worshipful. society > faith > aspects of faith > holiness > saint > canonization > [adjective] > first degree of a1450 (c1405) On translating Bible (Trin. Cambr.) in (1938) 7 173 Worschipful Bede, in his first boke..telliþ [etc.]. 1498 (de Worde) sig. Bvi Behynde all thyse was worshypfull Bede. 1565 S. Cooper Dict. Historicum sig. D4, in Beda, a famous learned man of this royalme: for his modestie, vertuous lyfe, and learning, surnamed woorshipfull Bede. 1679 T. Oates 65 This Prayer following made the worshipful St. Bede of the seven last words which our Lord Jesus Christ spake hanging on the Cross. 1879 T. F. Simmons 332 In the middle of the fifteenth century we find a Lollard complaining that the gospels drawn into English by worshipful Bede were ‘in many places of so old englishe that scant can anye englishe man reade them’. 2010 I. Moreira 11 While Bede was the ‘worshipful’ ‘Saint’ Bede for sixteenth-century Catholics..Protestants were apt..to dismiss his writings as evidence of primitive practice. the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > respect > reverence > [adjective] J. Gaytryge (York Min.) (1901) l. 205 Ilk man that worshipfull is. a1382 (Bodl. 959) (1965) Judith Prol. l. 13 Takeþ Judith widewe saumple of chastyte & declareþ in perpetewel wrshipeful [emended in ed. to wurshipeful] tellingis with þe preising of victorie. c1405 (c1395) G. Chaucer (Ellesmere) (1875) l. 992 But worshipful Chanons Religious Ne demeth nat that I desclaundre youre hous. a1500 (c1340) R. Rolle (Univ. Oxf. 64) (1884) xxviii. §4. 101 Konynge that makis men worschipful. 1566 J. Martiall i. f. 27v A Bacchiler of Diuinitie and woorshipful reader in Paules. 1601 A. Copley 22 Who after a long and worshipfull confession of the Catholicke faith in the Towre of London and other prisons, in the end fell vnder his hand. 1778 W. Graham i. 32 These vows are a worshipful recognization of that character [sc. of God]. 1809 W. Taylor Let. in J. W. Robberds (1843) II. 274 I should have been more humble, panegyrical, worshipful. 1840 Jan. 3/1 The Whigs..are more worshipful of that perfection of wisdom, the glorious British constitution. 1863 T. Woolner i. 32 Or kneels she worshipful beside her bed. 1891 T. Hardy II. xxxi. 127 He would sometimes catch her large, worshipful eyes..looking at him from their depths. 1932 Feb. 8/1 The younger man, eager-eyed, almost worshipful heretofore, spoke for the first time. 1985 4 Apr. 12/3 They're much more worshipful now than they were in those days. You don't get so many of the people who thought it was right to attend church purely for social reasons. 2006 13 July 26/5 She has..earned herself a coterie of worshipful admirers in the process. 5. the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > reputation > good repute > reputability or honourableness > [adjective] society > society and the community > social class > nobility > rank > [adjective] > relating to person of rank or importance a1375 (c1350) (1867) l. 115 Another wif..he wedded, a worchipful ladi. a1393 J. Gower (Fairf.) ii. l. 662 And ek so worschipful a wif, The doughter of an Emperour, To wedde it schal be gret honour. c1405 (c1375) G. Chaucer (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 300 So worshipful a creature And wys..and large wt mesure. c1450 tr. (Royal) 34 Þus shalt thou be holden wijs and worshipfulle for thi governaunce. a1470 T. Malory (Winch. Coll. 13) (1990) II. 580 Sir Trystram that is the worshypfullyst knyght that now is lyvynge. ?c1530 in F. J. Furnivall (1903) 58 A nobyll and a wurshipfull hert nevyr askyth of womens dedys. 1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria f. 240v Wyse & woorshypful men expert in nauigations. 1579 W. Wilkinson To Rdr. sig. ☛ iv The answere..beyng intercepted by my worshypfull frend, came not into my handes. 1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden i. 199 Small townlets..which have given surnames to ancient and worshipfull families. 1632 W. Lithgow ix. 396 I encountered with a Worshipfull English Gentleman Mr. Stydolffe Esquier of his Maiesties body. 1655 T. Fuller ix. 197 Edwin Sands, Arch-Bishop of Yorke, born in Lancashire of worshipfull Parentage. 1687 (single sheet) But soon after this I was made the Recorder, To keep the Worshipful Rabble in order. 1704 III. 109/1 'Twou'd be no very easie matter to perswade all the worshipful Electors to set their Marks to an Abhorrence of Cakes and Ale. 1751 C. Lucas I. Ded. p. xxxvii The high Esteem and Veneration, I bear for your Lordship, and all the worshipful Members of the Community of the City of London. 1819 M. R. Mitford Let. 10 Feb. in A. G. L'Estrange (1870) II. 52 Oh! what a delicious painter of mind and body is that worshipful Master Aubrey! 1845 T. Carlyle in O. Cromwell II. 485 If not the noblest and worshipfullest of all Englishmen, at least the strongest and terriblest. 1902 Sept. 53 The statesfolk too, and the townsfolk—true, a worshipful company! 1976 J. McCloy & R. Miller ii. 36 With the advent of the new century many worshipful commoners of Jersey dismissed..the fear of the monster from their minds. 2008 105 24 In the Morte Darthur, the most worshipful knights strive not only to uphold the Round Table Oath but the established social order of Arthur's realm. society > society and the community > social class > nobility > title > title or form of address for persons of rank > [adjective] > specific epithets for persons of rank 1398 in J. Raine (1865) III. 316 Y..by for yow hier, worshepful fader in God, and lord, Richard, by the grace of God erche bysshop of York,..make avowe [etc.]. 1406 (Electronic ed.) Parl. Mar. 1406 Pleas §8. m. 2 To comune..wythe the wyrshipfull prince Robert the king of Scotland, and his conseil. 1428 in J. Raine (1890) 10 Vnto his wirshipfull Mair,..and all þe wirshipfull Counsell of þe cite of York. 1578 T. Nicholas tr. F. Lopez de Gómara Ep. Ded., sig. a.ij Whilest I abode..in the Isle of Palma, in affaires of merchandize for the worshipfull Thomas Lock deceased [etc.]. 1615 R. Cocks (1883) I. 48 The Worshipfull Companys letters. 1639 J. Taylor 20 The right worthy worshipfull Knight Sir Paul Neale. 1720 A. Petrie 79 The Manner of directing of your Letters... To the Worshipful Lady A.S. 1737 31 Mar. The worshipful the Heads of the University of Cambridge..spare no Pains to suppress the unlicens'd Taverns that have rais'd their Heads in that Town. 1756 C. Lucas iii. 286 I thanked..his worshipful brethren of the Council. 1768 (ed. 12) 46 To the Master and Wardens of the Worshipful Company of Mercers. 1848 C. Dickens lvii. 573 A dusty old beadle..who has something to do with a Worshipful Company who have got a Hall in the next yard. 1877 2 382 A certain Cause now pending in our Consistory Court, before the Worshipful Thomas Hutchinson Tristram,..our Vicar General. 1909 1 Dec. 5/5 The master of the yellow-hat doctrine..had two spiritual sons. One was the worshipful Dalai Lama (of Lhasa). 1945 Apr. 46/2 Rotarian L. W. Gupwell, of Birmingham, England, was recently elected a Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Carmen, London. 1981 S. McAughtry i. 25 Alongside him was Bobby Nesbitt, a man I knew for a fact to be a Worshipful Master, a Pastmaster, and every other sort of master you can think of. 2002 S. McKay (new ed.) 45 She had spent eight years in local government, was a Sunday school teacher and a past Worshipful Mistress in her local lodge. c1400 (a1387) J. Trevisa Epist. to Ld. Berkeley in (1988) 294 (MED) Welthe and worschip to my worþy and worschypfol lord. 1440 in J. Raine (1841) 114 Wirshipfull sir I comend me to ȝowe. 1534 J. Fewterer tr. U. Pinder iii. v. f. cli And he sayd, yea my worshipful mother all my sorowes and paynes be now past and gon. 1549 T. Chaloner tr. Erasmus sig. Kiij These friers..upholde them in their sermons to the people callyng them worshipfull and venerande maisters. 1605 J. Marston i. ii. sig. B My worshipfull rotten rough-bellide Baud..by the Lord, Aunt, Restitution is Catholique. 1674 A. Marvell xviii And now, worshipful sirs, Go fold up your furs, And Viners turn again, turn again. 1794 25 June 395 Worshipful Sirs, Your very pertinent and perspicuous advertisement happened fortuitously to fall within the sphere of my observation. 1843 E. Bulwer-Lytton I. i. i. 11 It shall not be my fault if I do not, though but a humble headman to your worshipful mastership, help to make them so. 1853 99 89 If, oh worshipful cadi, you desired to rob, you could not have chosen a more favourable time than this. 1922 July 43/3 Worshipful sir, we go back to the gold washing. Yet suffer us with all respect to ask, worshipful sir, what is to become of our lump of gold. 2001 J. Harvey (2002) 168/2 I really had no idea you were into this sort of thing, oh, worshipful master. But hey, I ain't complainin'. 1425 W. Paston in (2004) I. 3 Right worthy and worshepefull ser, I recomaunde me to yow, [etc.]. 1473 J. Paston in (2004) I. 466 Ryght wyrshypffull and my ryght tendre modre, I recomaunde me to yow. c1520 in B. Cusack (1998) 53 [Tenant's accounts, York] To the Ryȝth Wors [ch] ypfull & Companne off the Trenitte Gylld. ?1555 T. Paynell tr. J. L. Vives Ep. Ded. sig. A.ii I Do perceaue, and by daylye experience do vnderstand most worshipfull Syr: how men do erre, and are sore deceaued. 1577 J. Ludham tr. W. Orthius Oration in tr. A. Hyperius sig. Bbviii You remember I am sure, right learned Master Chunrade Mathew, my very worshipfull kinseman, what he sayd. 1600 W. Shakespeare ii. i. 70 O my most worshipful Lord, and't please your grace I am a poore widdow of Eastcheape. 1641 W. S. in (new ed.) Ep. Ded. sig. A2 To the Right Worshipfull Sir John Lenthall Knight. 1681 T. Otway iii. i. 28 Her Ladiship, Right-worshipful is pleas'd not to be at home. 1701 S. M. 3 To the Right Worshipful His Majesties Justices of the Peace for the County of Middlesex. 1739 Nov. 345 Dr. Desaguliers..was no sooner installed,..but he revived the old regular and peculiar Toasts or Healths of this very worshipful order. 1768 (ed. 12) 48 Justices of the Peace, and Mayors, are stiled Right Worshipful. 1787 R. Burns Let. 14 Jan. in R. H. Cromek (1813) 16 I went to a Mason-lodge yesternight, where the most Worshipful-Grand Master Charters, and all the Grand-Lodge of Scotland visited. 1827 21 783 An honorary member of the right worshipful company of Maunderers. 1832 in (1891) 21 May 414/3 It has extensively circulated among the Knights of Kadosh and the Most Worshipful Mugwumps of the Cabletow. 1849 G. P. R. James I. ii. 34 Sir Charles Weinants, a right worshipful gentleman also. 1901 C. A. Mason xxv. 263 I had..wondered if my lady might find it hard to forget the good graces and adoring glances of the very worshipful Count Louis of Nassau. 1953 E. Johnstone (title) Centennial history of the Most Worshipful Grand Lodge of Ancient Free and Accepted Masons of Minnesota. 2016 (Nexis) 23 June 30 The Archbishop of Liverpool (the Most Reverend Malcolm McMahon) and the Right Worshipful the Lord Mayor of Liverpool (Councillor Rochne Gladden). B. n.society > law > administration of justice > one who administers justice > [noun] a1382 (Bodl. 959) (1969) Isa. ix. 15 Þe longe lyuende & þe worshipeful [a1425 L.V. an elde man and onourable] he is þe heued, & þe prophete techinge lesing he is þe tail. a1475 J. Russell Bk. Nurture (Harl. 4011) in (2002) i. 161 Þan durst y do my devoire with any worshipfulle to be wonnynge. 1536 in T. Wright (1843) 129 As by the reporte of dyvers worshyppfulles..yt ys to us openly declared. 1565 in F. J. Furnivall (1897) 49 As he hard it reportid by diuerse worshipfull and others. 1579 W. Wilkinson f. 30v Hauyng..deceiued some Justices of Peace, and other worshypfull of countrey, where they dwel. a1592 R. Greene (1617) Ep. Ded. sig. A3 So (right worshipfull) after your returne from the Low Countries, [etc.]. 1608 W. Boswell Let. 18 May in S. D'Ewes (1845) II. 163 Wheruppon I am bould to intreate your worshipfull to be satisfied by my letters present. 1630 I. G. Ep. Ded. sig. A2 Right Worshipfuls, it behooueth all people of what calling, state, or condition soeuer, to giue all diligence to acquaint themselues with the will of God reuealed in his Word. 1681 A. Behn Epil. sig. M3v Pleas'd your sick Palats with Fantastick Wit..; Giants, fat Cardinals, Pope Joans and Fryers, To entertain Right Worshipfuls and Squires. 1807 10 213 Anon the day of trial comes, The Worshipfuls were on their bums, And all the court in solemn silence sat. 1817 W. Scott I. ix. 204 ‘Thanks, most worshipful,’ returned Miss Vernon. 1853 A. Allyn 107 The new installed worshipful is made the butt for every worthy brother to exercise his wit upon. 1889 June 832/2 Damn the worshipful lady, and all other worshipfuls! There 'll be no more worshipfuls here! 1902 1 Jan. 308/1 Every night sees half a dozen important meetings of one sort or another at which ‘Right Worshipfuls’ are present by the score and mere ‘Worshipfuls’ as plentiful as the leaves on the trees. 1967 6 Feb. 20/3 The St. Lawrence County Right Worshipfuls Association will have charge of the celebration of 160 years of Masonry in St. Lawrence County. 2010 (Nexis) 22 Nov. 4 Look how the worshipfuls treat women and girls in all religions; how they lend their names to bloody wars and oppressive states. 1553 R. Horne in tr. J. Calvin sig. C Thei see yt the wholl youth of the realme and especially of the noble and the worshipfull ar infected wt this heresie and new learning. 1567 T. Harman (new ed.) Ep. Ded. sig. Aiii The honorable wyl abhore them. The worshipfull wyll reiecte them. 1591 R. Greene Ep. Ded. f. 4v If the honorable and worshipfull of this land looke into their liues, and cut off such vpstarting suckars that consume the sap from the roote of the Tree. 1595 in J. Nichols (1797) 24 When the worshipfull of the parish..went the perambulacion to Kensington. 1628 G. Wither Pref. 137 As, our Gull, A bird much found among the Worshipfull. a1871 G. Grote (1876) v. 176 Aristotle distributes good things into three classes—the admirable or worshipful [τὰ τίμια]—the praiseworthy—the potential. 1872 R. Browning xxxii. 32 Obey Implicitly, nor pause to question, to survey Even the worshipful! 1918 D. M. Steele vi. 133 Only the worshipful are here, and of these, only such as worship beauty. 1937 J. K. Feibleman xi. 118 Thus the worshipful is both an interior and an exterior relation of value. 1974 10 35 Since the nature of the worshipful is located not in the object of worship itself but in the way it is related to our powers of comprehension, anything and everything is capable of qualifying as such an object. 2008 H. van Krieken ii. vii. 220 Such prayers tell us where the hearts of the worshipful are. †C. adv.the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > [adverb] c1426 J. Audelay (1931) 121 (MED) Wo-so-euer wil halou þis Sununday Wele and worchipful..With angelis of God in heuen..Ioy and blis þer haue ȝe schal. 1469 M. Paston in (2004) I. 350 It is a fowle slaundere that he was so wurchepfull beried..and so litill do for hym sithen. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2017; most recently modified version published online December 2021). <  adj.n.adv.1340 |
