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41revere — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. t. venerate, honor, respect, esteem, admire; worship. See love, piety. II (Roget s IV) v. Syn. reverence, venerate, worship, respect, adore, idolize, exalt, glorify, honor, admire, esteem, worship the …
42revere — verb she is revered as a national hero Syn: respect, admire, honor, think highly of, esteem, hold in high esteem, hold in high regard, look up to, put on a pedestal, lionize, reverence Ant: despise •• revere, admire, adore, idolize, venerate,… …
43Idolatry in Christianity — An idol is a material object, representing a deity, to which religious worship is directed. [Geoffrey W. Bromiley International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (Grand Rapids: William B Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1982), vol. 2 p 794.] In… …
44Eastern Orthodox worship — Part of a series on Eastern Christianity …
45Canonization — For other uses, see Canonization (disambiguation). Icon of St. Cyprian of Carthage, who urged diligence in the process of canonization. Canonization (or canonisation) is the act by which a Christian church declares a deceased person to be a saint …
46Iconoclasm — Reformation iconoclasm in the 16th century. Relief statues in St Stevenskerk in Nijmegen, the Netherlands, attacked in the Beeldenstorm …
47Veneration of the dead — Ancestor worship at a Chinese temple complex in Sichuan A Korean …
48Epitaphios (liturgical) — The Epitaphios (Greek: Επιτάφιος, epitaphios , or Επιτάφιον, epitaphion ; Slavonic: Плащаница, plashchanitsa ; Arabic: نعش, naash ) is an icon, today most often found as a large cloth, embroidered and often richly adorned, which is used during… …
49Matins Gospel — Gospel Book from 1772. The central medallion depicts the Resurrection of Jesus, in the corners are the Four Evangelists (Moscow) The Matins Gospel is the solemn chanting of a lection from one of the Four Gospels during Matins in the Orthodox… …
50Hinduism — /hin dooh iz euhm/, n. the common religion of India, based upon the religion of the original Aryan settlers as expounded and evolved in the Vedas, the Upanishads, the Bhagavad Gita, etc., having an extremely diversified character with many… …
