Dictionary

worshipable en · ADJ

Etymology

From Middle English worschipable, worschypabull, worshepable, worshipable; equivalent to worship + -able.

Meanings

1. Capable of being worshipped.
   • The rampant vigor with which Japanese Buddhism began to absorb everything in heaven, earth and sea, which it could make a worshipable object or cause to stand as a Kami or deity to the mind, will be seen as we proceed. 1895, William Elliot Griffis, “IX: The Buddhism of the Japanese”, in The Religions of Japan, 4th edition revised, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, published 1912, page 269:
2. Worthy of worship.
   • In addition, Kali, spouse of Shiva, is presented as an object of devotion […] who is "the Image and Embodiment of all the […] Devas." She is multiform, worshipable in each, "Mother of all." 1919, George W. Gilmore, “Tantrism: The Newest Hinduism”, in The American Journal of Theology, volume 23, number 4, page 450:
   • So much of truth, only under an ancient obsolete vesture, but the spirit of it still true, do I find in the Paganism of old nations. Nature is still divine, the revelation of the workings of God; the Hero is still worshipable: this, under poor cramped incipient forms, is what all Pagan religions have struggled, as they could, to set forth. 1840 May 5, Thomas Carlyle, “Lecture I. The Hero as Divinity. Odin. Paganism: Scandinavian Mythology.”, in On Heroes, Hero-Worship and The Heroic in History, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1840, →OCLC, page 14:

Forms

Deriveds

unworshipable · worshipability

Synonyms

worshipworthy