Obs. [UN-2 3.] trans. To deprive of honor or dignity; to treat with indignity, disrespect, or irreverence. Also refl.
c. 1380. Wyclif, Wks. (1880), 462. Men seyen þat þe pope wole biclippe worldly worchip, & not trewe men for goddis sake, lest he vnworchipe hym silf.
1387–8. T. Usk, Test. Love, II. vi. (Skeat), l. 125. Yet is he worthy, for shrewdnesse, to be unworshipped.
a. 1425. trans. Arderne’s Treat. Fistula, etc., 75. Þerfor it schal noȝt vnworschip [overlined ne schame] a lech for to spede profitabily with fewer þings and liȝter.
c. 1450. Mirk’s Festial, I. 87. Þe lest synne þat a man doth, hyt vnworschypyth God.
a. 1470. H. Parker, Dives & Pauper (W. de W., 1496), II. i. 110/2. Graunte vs grace no thynge to do … wherby thy name sholde be vnworshyped or ashamed in vs.
Hence † Unworshipping vbl. sb. Obs.
1382. Wyclif, Ecclus. i. 38. Lest parauenture thou falle, and bringe to thi soule vnwrsheping [L. inhonorationem].
c. 1400. Love, Bonavent. Mirr. (1908), 154. The cause was for the gostly fire of his zele,… for the vnworschippynge of his fader.
c. 1450. Myrr. our Ladye, 208. The vnworshypynge and offense of god.
