excellence of character; dignity; worth; worthiness.-honor; respect; civil deference.-hence, a title of honor, used in addresses to certain magistrates and others of rank or station.-the act of paying divine honors to the supreme being; religious reverence and homage; adoration, or acts of reverence, paid to god, or a being viewed as god.-obsequious or submissive respect; extravagant admiration; adoration.-an object of worship.-to respect; to honor; to treat with civil reverence.-to pay divine honors to; to reverence with supreme respect and veneration; to perform religious exercises in honor of; to adore; to venerate.-to honor with extravagant love and extreme submission, as a lover; to adore; to idolize.-to perform acts of homage or adoration; esp., to perform religious service.