adorate

present singular third person adorates · participle present adorating · participle past adorated · past adorated

1. Synonym of adore.

   The Maharſhees, holy bands, hail thee, and glorify thy name with adorating praiſes.

   1787, “The Bhagvat-Geeta”, in Charles Wilkins, transl., The English Review, or, An Abstract of English and Foreign Literature, page 98

   3 more examples

   In the other is depicted the Crucifixion of Christ, who is represented as suffering between the two thieves, while the Maries are adorating below.

   1866, Charles St. John, Edward J. Wood, Cosmo Innes, Natural History & Sport in Moray, page 237

   Five aspects of the cult easily adapt themselves to be measured, as they are treated often enough in the cult inventories: the number of gods adorated,[…].

   1992, Joost Hazenbos, The Organization of the Anatolian Local Cults During the Thirteenth Century B.C.: An Appraisal of the Hittite Cult Inventories, page 215

   In ancient times, and in modern times in Afghanistan during the Taliban regime, people were required, even unwillingly to adorate the main deity of a state religion as the government described it.

   2005, Gary Clifford Gibson, Creation & Cosmos; the Literal Values of Genesis, page 155

   Synonyms: adore