Worship
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
The act of paying divine honors to the Supreme Being; religious reverence and homage; adoration paid to God or a being viewed as God; adoration; a religious act of reverence; honor paid to the Supreme Being or by heathen nations to their deities; the performance of those external acts and the observance of all those rites and ceremonies in which men engage with the professed and sole view of honor- In the United States, this is free, every one being at liberty to worship God according to the dictates' of his conscience. See "Public Worship." In English Law. A title or addition given to certain persons.
2 Inst. 666; Bac. Abr. "Misnomer" (A 2).