Word Meanings - DISWORSHIP - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To refuse to worship; to treat as unworthy. Sir T. More.

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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.
• TREATMENT
  1. The act or manner of treating; management; manipulation; handling; usage; as, unkind treatment; medical treatment. 2. Entertainment; treat. Accept such treatment as a swain affords. Pope.
• WORSHIPABLE
  Capable of being worshiped; worthy of worship. Carlyle.
• TREATABLY
  In a treatable manner.
• TREATER
  One who treats; one who handles, or discourses on, a subject; also, one who entertains.
• TREATURE
  Treatment. Fabyan.
• TREATABLE
  Manageable; tractable; hence, moderate; not violent. " A treatable disposition, a strong memory." R. Parr. A kind of treatable dissolution. Hooker. The heats or the colds of seasons are less treatable than with us. Sir W. Temple.
• TREATISER
  One who writes a treatise.
• 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.
• TREATY
  tractatus; cf. L. tractatus a handling, treatment, consultation, 1. The act of treating for the adjustment of differences, as for forming an agreement; negotiation. "By sly and wise treaty." Chaucer. He cast by treaty and by trains Her to persuade.
• REFUSER
  One who refuses or rejects.
• TREATISE
  1. A written composition on a particular subject, in which its principles are discussed or explained; a tract. Chaucer. He published a treatise in which he maintained that a marriage between a member of the Church of England and a dissenter was
• REFUSE
  Refusal. Fairfax.
• TREAT
  To care for medicinally or surgically; to manage in the use of remedies or appliances; as, to treat a disease, a wound, or a patient. 6. To subject to some action; to apply something to; as, to treat a substance with sulphuric acid. Ure.
• UNWORTHY
  Not worthy; wanting merit, value, or fitness; undeserving; worthless; unbecoming; -- often with of. -- Un*wor"thi*ly, adv. -- Un*wor"thi*ness, n.
• MISWORSHIP
  Wrong or false worship; mistaken practices in religion. Bp. Hall. Such hideous jungle of misworships. Carlyle.
• RETREATFUL
  Furnishing or serving as a retreat. "Our retreatful flood." Chapman.
• SELF-WORSHIP
  The idolizing of one's self; immoderate self-conceit.
• ENTREATY
  1. Treatment; reception; entertainment. B. Jonson. 2. The act of entreating or beseeching; urgent prayer; earnest petition; pressing solicitation. Fair entreaty, and sweet blandishment. Spenser. Syn. -- Solicitation; request; suit; supplication;
• UNWORSHIP
  To deprive of worship or due honor; to dishonor. Wyclif.
• RETREATMENT
  The act of retreating; specifically, the Hegira. D'Urfey.
• MALTREATMENT
  Ill treatment; ill usage; abuse.
• ENTREATFUL
  Full of entreaty. See Intreatful.
• INTREAT
  See SPENSER
• MISTREAT
  To treat amiss; to abuse.
• MISENTREAT
  To treat wrongfully. Grafton.
• INTREATABLE
  Not to be entreated; inexorable.
• MALTREAT
  To treat ill; to abuse; to treat roughly.