worshipful

1. (archaic) Entitled to dignity or respect; distinguished, respected, illustrious.Examples: "[H]owe Dorbell comes to bee doctour none aſks, but doctour hee muſt bee to make him right worſhipfull."; "Now for a sealing and making fast of this solemn covenant between you I see no likelier rede than that ye all join with me here this day in good friendship to forget your quarrels in drinking of the arvale of King Gorice XI., than whom hath reigned none mightier nor more worshipful in all this world, and thereafter depart in peace to your native lands."archaic

2. (chiefly British) Used as respectful form of address or honorific title for a person or body of persons, now especially in the name of a livery company.Examples: "To my most dredfull and Sovereigne lige Lord, I youre humble lige beseche to yowre Hyness to have in remembrance my comyng to yowre worshipful presence into York of my free will, […]"; "At a Common Council, held in the Chamber of the Guildhall of the city of London, on Friday the 15th day of December, 1769, it was ordered, that the thanks of this Court be given to the Worshipful Company of Ironmongers for their generosity in giving up part of their ground on Snow Hill for the benefit of the public highway."; "The writer of theſe epiſtles is ſome philoſopher of the once well known Peter Annett's ſchool; who, wiſhing, as we may conclude, to try a revival of his tenets, without delivering them in his own proper character, has done the worſhipful fraternity of Free Maſons, the honour of imputing them to an ancient colony of the brethren, which he has diſcovered in a fertile ſpot, inſulated in the remote boſom of the ſandy deſerts of Africa."British

3. (chiefly theology) Worthy of worship.Examples: "But the Stoics and the poet Virgil came near to the Christian belief that God is light, and everlasting light. And is not light also ‘mystery’? Yes, unfathomable, worshipful! Lumen adorabile!"; "The worshipful, then, whatever else it may be, is something mysterious and supernatural. But of course the converse is not true. What is mysterious or supernatural need not be worshipful."