worshipable

English

Etymology

worship +‎ -able

Adjective

worshipable (comparative more worshipable, superlative most worshipable)

1. Capable of being worshiped; worthy of veneration.
   • 1841, Thomas Carlyle, Lectures on Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History, ch. 1:

     So much of truth . . . 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.

   • 1895, William Elliot Griffis, The Religions of Japan (2006 edition), →ISBN, p. 139:

     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.

   • 1919, George W. Gilmore, "Tantrism: The Newest Hinduism," The American Journal of Theology, vol. 23, no. 4, p. 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."

Related terms

• worshipability

References

• Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed. (1989)