misworship

present singular third person misworships · US participle present misworshiping · UK participle present misworshipping · US participle past misworshiped · US past misworshiped · UK participle past misworshipped · UK past misworshipped

1. transitiveTo worship (a deity, etc.) wrongly.

   The Israelites misworshipped the true God; the Syrians worshipped a false.

   1612–1634, [Joseph Hall], “(please specify the page)”, in [Contemplations vpon the Principall Passages of the Holy Storie], volume (please specify |volume=I to VIII), London, →OCLC

plural misworships

1. countableuncountableFalse or wrong worship; mistaken practices in religion.

   Might men be their own judges, there would be no heresy in the world, no misworship.

   1612–1634, [Joseph Hall], “(please specify the page)”, in [Contemplations vpon the Principall Passages of the Holy Storie], volume (please specify |volume=I to VIII), London, →OCLC

   1 more example

   Such hideous inextricable jungle of misworships, misbeliefs, men, made as we are, did actually hold by, and live at home in.

   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 4