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adorate

adorate

English

Verb

adorate (third-person singular simple present adorates, present participle adorating, simple past and past participle adorated)

  1. To worship, to adore.
    • 1787, Charles Wilkins (translator), The Bhagvat-Geeta, in The English Review, or, An Abstract of English and Foreign Literature, page 98,
      The Maharſhees, holy bands, hail thee, and glorify thy name with adorating praiſes.
    • 1866, Charles St. John, Edward J. Wood, Cosmo Innes, Natural History & Sport in Moray, page 237,
      In the other is depicted the Crucifixion of Christ, who is represented as suffering between the two thieves, while the Maries are adorating below.
    • 1992, Joost Hazenbos, The Organization of the Anatolian Local Cults During the Thirteenth Century B.C.: An Appraisal of the Hittite Cult Inventories, page 215,
      Five aspects of the cult easily adapt themselves to be measured, as they are treated often enough in the cult inventories: the number of gods adorated, [] .
    • 2005, Gary Clifford Gibson, Creation & Cosmos; the Literal Values of Genesis, page 155,
      In ancient times, and in modern times in Afghanistan during the Taliban regime, people were required, even unwillingly to adorate the main deity of a state religion as the government described it.

Esperanto

Adverb

adorate

  1. present adverbial passive participle of adori

Italian

Verb

adorate

  1. second-person plural present indicative of adorare
  2. second-person plural imperative of adorare
  3. feminine plural of adorato

Latin

Verb

adōrāte

  1. first-person plural present active imperative of adōrō