(a.) Entitled to worship, reverence, or high respect; claiming respect; worthy of honor; -- often used as a term of respect, sometimes ironically.

Christian Christianlike Christianly acknowledged admiring admitted adorant adoring apotheosizing august awe-inspiring awed awesome awestricken awestruck awful believing conventional creditable cultish cultist cultistic customary deifying devoted devotional devout dreadful dutiful established esteemed estimable faithful fixed folk hallowed handed down held in esteem hero-worshiping heroic highly esteemed highly regarded highly reputed highly respectable hoary honorable honored idolatrous idolizing immemorial imploring in awe in favor in good odor in high favor in the dust inveterate legendary long-established long-standing meritorious mythological noble of long standing of the folk on bended knee oral pietistic pious prayerful precative precatory prescriptive prestigious prostrate before received recognized religious reputable respectable respected revered reverend reverent reverential rooted solemn suppliant supplicant supplicatory theistic time-honored traditional tried and true true-blue understood unwritten venerable venerated venerational venerative well-thought-of worshiping worthy