adore

5 definitions found

adore - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Adore \A*dore"\, v. t.
     To adorn. [Obs.]
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           Congealed little drops which do the morn adore.
                                                    --Spenser.
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  adore \a*dore"\ ([.a]*d[=o]r"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. adored
     ([.a]*d[=o]rd"); p. pr. & vb. n. adoring
     ([.a]*d[=o]r"[i^]ng).] [OE. aouren, anouren, adoren, OF.
     aorer, adorer, F. adorer, fr. L. 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. See
     Oral.]
     1. To worship with profound reverence; to pay divine honors
        to; to honor as a deity or as divine.
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              Bishops and priests, . . . bearing the host, which
              he [James II.] publicly adored.       --Smollett.
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     2. To love in the highest degree; to regard with the utmost
        esteem and affection; to idolize.
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              The great mass of the population abhorred Popery and
              adored Monmouth.                      --Macaulay.
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adore - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  adore
      v 1: love intensely; "he just adored his wife"

adore - Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary :

  Adore
  to worship; to express reverence and homage. The forms of
  adoration among the Jews were putting off the shoes (Ex. 3:5;
  Josh. 5:15), and prostration (Gen. 17:3; Ps. 95:6; Isa. 44:15,
  17, 19; 46:6). To "kiss the Son" in Ps. 2:12 is to adore and
  worship him. (See Dan. 3:5, 6.) The word itself does not occur
  in Scripture.

adore - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  73 Moby Thesaurus words for "adore":
     accord respect to, admire, adulate, affection, apotheosize,
     appreciate, bask in, be pleased with, cherish, coddle, dearly love,
     defer to, deify, delight in, derive pleasure from, devour,
     do homage to, do service, dote, dote on, eat up, enjoy,
     entertain respect for, esteem, exalt, extol, fancy, favor,
     feast on, freak out on, get high on, gloat over, groove on, hallow,
     hero-worship, hold dear, hold in esteem, hold in reverence, honor,
     idolize, indulge, indulge in, laud, like, look up to, love,
     love to distraction, luxuriate in, pamper, pay homage to, praise,
     prize, regard, rejoice in, relish, respect, revel in, revere,
     reverence, riot in, savor, smack the lips, spoil, swim in,
     take pleasure in, think highly of, think much of, think well of,
     treasure, value, venerate, wallow in, worship