Word Meanings - CYTHEREAN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Pertaining to the goddess Venus. (more info) Cerigo, an island in the Ægean Sea, celebrated for the worship of

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• WORSHIPFUL
  Entitled to worship, reverence, or high respect; claiming respect; worthy of honor; -- often used as a term of respect, sometimes ironically. "This is worshipful society." Shak. so dear and worshipful. Chaucer. -- Wor"ship*ful*ly, adv.
• WORSHIPABLE
  Capable of being worshiped; worthy of worship. Carlyle.
• ISLANDY
  Of or pertaining to islands; full of islands. Cotgrave.
• GODDESS
  1. A female god; a divinity, or deity, of the female sex. When the daughter of Jupiter presented herself among a crowd of goddesses, she was distinguished by her graceful stature and superior beauty. Addison. 2. A woman of superior charms
• CELEBRATE
  1. To extol or honor in a solemn manner; as, to celebrate the name of the Most High. 2. To honor by solemn rites, by ceremonies of joy and respect, or by refraining from ordinary business; to observe duly; to keep; as, to celebrate a birthday.
• VENUS
  The goddess of beauty and love, that is, beauty or love deified.
• CELEBRATION
  The act, process, or time of celebrating. His memory deserving a particular celebration. Clarendok. Celebration of Mass is equivalent to offering Mass Cath. Dict. To hasten the celebration of their marriage. Sir P. Sidney.
• ISLANDER
  An inhabitant of an island.
• PERTAIN
  stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
• ISLAND
  1. To cause to become or to resemble an island; to make an island or islands of; to isle. Shelley. 2. To furnish with an island or with islands; as, to island the deep. Southey.
• VENUST
  Beautiful. E. Waterhouse.
• CELEBRATED
  Having celebrity; distinguished; renowned. Celebrated for the politeness of his manners. Macaulay. Syn. -- Distinguished; famous; noted; famed; renowned; illustrious. See Distinguished.
• CELEBRATOR
  One who celebrates; a praiser. Boyle.
• WORSHIPABILITY
  The quality of being worthy to be worshiped. Coleridge.
• WORSHIP
  1. Excellence of character; dignity; worth; worthiness. Shak. A man of worship and honour. Chaucer. Elfin, born of noble state, And muckle worship in his native land. Spenser. 2. Honor; respect; civil deference. Of which great worth and worship
• WORSHIPER
  One who worships; one who pays divine honors to any being or thing; one who adores.
• MISWORSHIP
  Wrong or false worship; mistaken practices in religion. Bp. Hall. Such hideous jungle of misworships. Carlyle.
• SELF-WORSHIP
  The idolizing of one's self; immoderate self-conceit.
• UNWORSHIP
  To deprive of worship or due honor; to dishonor. Wyclif.
• DEMI-ISLAND
  Peninsula. Knolles.
• SEA GODDESS
  A goddess supposed to live in or reign over the sea, or some part of the sea.
• RECELEBRATE
  To celebrate again, or anew. -- Re*cel`e*bra"tion, n.
• MISWORSHIPER
  One who worships wrongly.
• DISWORSHIP
  To refuse to worship; to treat as unworthy. Sir T. More.