| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | spend lavishly |
| Synonyms: | be extravagant, binge, celebrate, fling, give a party, rampage, spread |
| Antonyms: | hoard, save |
| Main Entry: | worship |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | honor, glorify |
| Synonyms: | admire, adore, adulate, bow down to, canonize, celebrate, chant, deify, dote on, esteem, exalt, extol, idolize, laud, love, magnify, offer prayers to, pay homage to, praise, pray to, put on a pedestal, respect, revere, reverence, sanctify, sing, sing praises to, venerate |
| Antonyms: | dishonor, disrespect, hate |
| Main Entry: | immortalize |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | memorialize |
| Synonyms: | canonize, celebrate, commemorate, deify, ennoble, praise |
| Main Entry: | solemnize |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | sanctify |
| Synonyms: | bless, celebrate, commemorate, dignify, exalt, honor, mark, observe, venerate |
| Main Entry: | memorialize |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | honor a memory |
| Synonyms: | acclaim, admire, adore, aggrandize, appreciate, celebrate, commemorate, commend, compliment, decorate, dignify, distinguish, ennoble, erect, esteem, exalt, glorify, hallow, laud, lionize, magnify, observe, praise, prize, revere, roll out red carpet, sanctify, sublime, venerate, worship |
| Main Entry: | panegyrize |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | honor |
| Synonyms: | acclaim, admire, adore, aggrandize, appreciate, be faithful, be true, celebrate, commemorate, commend, compliment, decorate, dignify, distinguish, ennoble, erect, esteem, eulogize, exalt, extol, give glad hand, give key to city, glorify, hail, hallow, keep, laud, lionize, live up to, look up to, magnify, observe, praise, prize, revere, roll out red carpet, sanctify, sing someone's praises, sublime, uprear, value, venerate, worship |
| Main Entry: | signalize |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | distinguish |
| Synonyms: | acknowledge, admire, celebrate, characterize, differentiate, dignify, discriminate, elevate, ennoble, exalt, honor, immortalize, individualize, mark*, pay tribute to, praise, set apart, singularize |
| Main Entry: | singularize |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | distinguish |
| Synonyms: | acknowledge, admire, celebrate, characterize, differentiate, dignify, discriminate, honor, immortalize, individualize, mark*, pay tribute to, praise, set apart, signalize |
| Concept: | Worship. |
| Category: | 4. Acts of religion |
| Synonyms: |
-nouns
worship, adoration, devotion, aspiration, homage, service, humiliation; kneeling, genuflection, prostration., prayer, invocation, supplication, rogation, intercession, orison, holy breathing; petition (request); collect, litany, Lord's prayer, paternoster; beadroll; latria, dulia, hyperdulia, vigils; revival; cult; anxious meeting, camp meeting; ebenezer, virginal., thanksgiving; giving thanks, returning thanks; grace, praise, glorification, benediction, doxology, hosanna; hallelujah, allelujah; Te Deum, non nobis Domine, nunc dimittis; paean; benschen; Ave Maria, O Salutaris, Sanctus, The Annunciation, Tersanctus, Trisagion., psalm, psalmody; hymn, plain song, chant, chaunt, response, anthem, motet; antiphon, 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, tierce; holyday (rites)., worshipper, congregation, communicant, celebrant.
-verbs
worship, lift up the heart, aspire; revere; 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 (ask); 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 [U.S.], propitiate, offer sacrifice, fast, deny oneself; vow, offer vows, give alms,, work out one's salvation; go to church; attend service, attend mass; communicate (rite).
-adjectives
worshipping; devout, devotional, reverent, pure, solemn; fervid (heartfelt).
-phrases
"making their lives a prayer" [Whitter]; ora et labora; "prayers ardent open heaven" [Young].
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