worshipable

English

worshipable (comparative more worshipable, superlative most worshipable)

Capable of being worshipped.
- 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:
  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.
Worthy of worship.
Synonym: worshipworthy
- 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:
  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.
- 1919, George W. Gilmore, “Tantrism: The Newest Hinduism”, in The American Journal of Theology, volume 23, number 4, page 450:
  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."