worthy

adj

1. Having worth, merit, or value.

   “These banished men that I have kept withal / Are men endued with worthy qualities”

   “This worthy mind should worthy things embrace.”

2. Admirable or honourable.

   “that such iron moulds as these shall have autority to knaw out the choicest periods of exquisitest books, and to commit such a treacherous fraud against the orphan remainders of worthiest men after death, the more sorrow will belong to that haples race of men, whose misfortune it is to have understanding.”

3. Deserving, or having sufficient worth.

   “1 And I saw in þe right hand of him that sate on the Throne, a booke written within, & on the backeside, sealed with seuen seales. 2 And I saw a strong Angel proclaiming with a loude voice; Who is worthy to open the booke, and to loose the seales thereof? 3 And no man in heauen, nor in earth, neither vnder the earth, was able to open the booke, neither to looke thereon. 4 And I wept much, because no man was found worthy to open, and to reade the booke, neither to looke thereon.”

   “[I]t is a deed of higheſt charitie to help undeceive the people, and a vvork vvorthieſt your autoritie, […]”

   “It is not a conclusive proof of our being enlightened Christians, that we sneer and misinterpret bygone creeds, as though in the old Greek and Roman poetry were shewn nothing worthier than Fetish idols, rotten mummies, Australasian Ram-Jams and Ethiopian Mumbo-Jumbos.”

4. Suited; suitable; befitting.

   “No, Warwick, thou art worthy of the sway.”

   “[…] whose shoes I am not worthy to bear.”

   “And thou art worthy that thou shouldst not know / More happiness.”

   “The lodging is well worthy of the guest.”

   “The station is clearly well looked after, making it a worthy gateway to the resort.”

noun

1. A distinguished or eminent person.

   “That worthy one day, in our absence, being caught in the act of culpable talpicide, was rebuked by his mistress for disobeying his master's orders.”

2. a good, wise and virtuous person.

   “Confucius and Mencius are revered as the Sages and Worthies of Confucianism.”

verb

1. (transitive)To render or treat as worthy.

   “And put upon him such a deal of man, That worthied him, got praises of the king […]”

   “After having duly paid his addresses to it, he generally spends some time on the marble slab in front of the looking-glass, but without showing the slightest emotion at the sight of his own reflection, or worthying it with a song.”

   “And it is a poor daub besides," the Emperor rejoined scornfully, as he stalked out of the gallery without worthying the artist with a look.”

   “No henchman he worthied by weapons, if witness his features, his peerless presence!”

name

1. A surname.
2. A hamlet in Porlock parish, Somerset, England (OS grid ref SS8548).