verb.
Simple past tense and past participle of adore.
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adjective.
regarded with deep or rapturous love (especially as if for a god)
Word Usage
"But, since God is to be adored: the further proposition: -- _the Holy Ghost is to be adored_; is also contained, though only implicitly, in revelation; and is therefore, equally, of faith."