unˈworshipped, ppl. a.
[un-1 8.]
Not worshipped or adored; not held in reverence or esteem.
| a 1395 Hylton Scala Perf. ii. xiv. (Bodl. MS.), Vnresonabli he werkiþ þat loueþ not þe souereyn good,..þat is god vnsouȝt and vnloued, vnknowen and vnworschipid. c 1430 Life St. Kath. (1884) 42 Whom þou byddest be wyth oute worshep hit schal be suffisant to hem to abyde in her owne houses vnworscheped. a 1513 Fabyan Chron. vii. (1811) 452 The holye seruyce of God [has been] lefte, and holye churche vnworshypped and vnhonouryd. 1587 Golding De Mornay 595 Had it not bene a cryme to haue left them vnworshipped for Gods? 1667 Milton P.L. v. 667 He resolv'd..to..leave Unworshipt, unobey'd, the Throne supream. 1796 B. S. Barton Mem. Fasc. Faculty Rattlesnake 17 The former [Being]..was merely acknowledged and named, but unworshipped and neglected. 1837 Carlyle Fr. Rev. i. i. i, Thus..had this grand-nephew of the great Richelieu to glide about; unworshipped by the world. 1850 S. Dobell The Roman viii, Oft the unworshipp'd angel passeth While we..adore his footsteps in the sand. |