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Word Meanings - IDOLIZE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To make an idol of; to pay idolatrous worship to; as, to idolize the sacred bull in Egypt. 2. To love to excess; to love or reverence to adoration; as, to idolize gold, children, a hero.

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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.
  • DISREGARDFULLY
    Negligently; heedlessly.
  • HALLOW
    To make holy; to set apart for holy or religious use; to consecrate; to treat or keep as sacred; to reverence. "Hallowed be thy name." Matt. vi. 9. Hallow the Sabbath day, to do no work therein. Jer. xvii. 24. His secret altar touched with hallowed
  • ADMIRED
    1. Regarded with wonder and delight; highly prized; as, an admired poem. 2. Wonderful; also, admirable. "Admired disorder." " Admired Miranda." Shak.
  • HONORABLE
    1. Worthy of honor; fit to be esteemed or regarded; estimable; illustrious. Thy name and honorable family. Shak. 2. High-minded; actuated by principles of honor, or a scrupulous regard to probity, rectitude, or reputation. 3. Proceeding from an
  • PRAISEWORTHINESS
    The quality or state of being praiseworthy.
  • ADORE
    adorare; ad + orare to speak, pray, os, oris, mouth. In OE. confused with honor, the French prefix a- being confused with OE. a, an, on. 1. To worship with profound reverence; to pay divine honors to; to honor as deity or as divine. Smollett. 2.
  • MISCOMPUTE
    To compute erroneously. Sir T. Browne.
  • IDOLIZE
    1. To make an idol of; to pay idolatrous worship to; as, to idolize the sacred bull in Egypt. 2. To love to excess; to love or reverence to adoration; as, to idolize gold, children, a hero.
  • ACCUMULATE
    To heap up in a mass; to pile up; to collect or bring together; to amass; as, to accumulate a sum of money. Syn. -- To collect; pile up; store; amass; gather; aggregate; heap together; hoard.
  • REVERENTIALLY
    In a reverential manner.
  • TREASURER
    One who has the care of a treasure or treasure or treasury; an officer who receives the public money arising from taxes and duties, or other sources of revenue, takes charge of the same, and disburses it upon orders made by the proper authority;
  • CENSURER
    One who censures. Sha.
  • WORSHIPABLE
    Capable of being worshiped; worthy of worship. Carlyle.
  • DISESTEEMER
    One who disesteems. Boyle.
  • TREASURERSHIP
    The office of treasurer.
  • HONORABLENESS
    1. The state of being honorable; eminence; distinction. 2. Conformity to the principles of honor, probity, or moral rectitude; fairness; uprightness; reputableness.
  • ENSHRINE
    To inclose in a shrine or chest; hence, to preserve or cherish as something sacred; as, to enshrine something in memory. We will enshrine it as holy relic. Massinger.
  • EXALTMENT
    Exaltation. Barrow.
  • HOARDING
    A screen of boards inclosing a house and materials while builders are at work. Posted on every dead wall and hoarding. London Graphic. 2. A fence, barrier, or cover, inclosing, surrounding, or concealing something. The whole arrangement
  • APPRAISER
    One who appraises; esp., a person appointed and sworn to estimate and fix the value of goods or estates.
  • ARCHTREASURER
    A chief treasurer. Specifically, the great treasurer of the German empire.
  • UPHOARD
    To hoard up. Shak.
  • MISWORSHIP
    Wrong or false worship; mistaken practices in religion. Bp. Hall. Such hideous jungle of misworships. Carlyle.
  • UNREVERENT
    Irreverent. Shak.
  • DISDEIFY
    To divest or deprive of deity or of a deific rank or condition. Feltham.

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