a. [f. WORSHIP v. + -ABLE.]

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  † 1.  Entitled to honor or respect; honorable, worshipful. Obs.

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c. 1407.  Lydg., Reson & Sens., 3511. Thy disposicion Ordeyned had the table By lyklyhede of high degre And of estate ful worshipable. Ibid. (c. 1410), Life Our Lady (MS. Ashm. 39 lf. 94 b). Se howe lowely in a stall or stabill howe that she satte this lady worshipabill. Ibid. (1426), De Guil. Pilgr., 7724. A Gorger of Sobyrnesse, The wych Armure ys profytable, To alle folkys worshepable.

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  2.  Capable of being worshipped.

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1840.  Carlyle, Heroes, i. (1858), 196. Nature is still divine,… the Hero is still worshipable.

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1857.  P. Freeman, Princ. Div. Serv., II. 173. A worshippable Presence of Christ, resulting from their consecration.

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1883.  American, VI. 2. Woman’s being is to him fairly worshipable.

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