Crossword clues for venerate
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Venerate \Ven"er*ate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Venerated; p. pr. & vb. n. Venerating.] [L. veneratus, p. p. of venerari to venerate; akin to Venus Venus, Skr. van to like, to wish, and E. winsome. See Winsome.] To regard with reverential respect; to honor with mingled respect and awe; to reverence; to revere; as, we venerate parents and elders.
And seemed to venerate the sacred shade.
--Dryden.
I do not know a man more to be venerated for
uprightness of heart and loftiness of genius.
--Sir W.
Scott.
Syn: To reverence; revere; adore; respect.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1620s, back-formation from veneration, or else from Latin veneratus, past participle of venerari "to reverence, worship." Related: Venerated; venerating.
Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context transitive English) To treat with great respect and deference. 2 (context transitive English) To revere or hold in awe.
WordNet
Usage examples of "venerate".
Wherefore in the passage quoted we are to understand the prohibition to adore those images which the Gentiles made for the purpose of venerating their own gods, i.
He venerated the language, verbalized everything that came into his fertile, agile, searching mind.
Very few depict scenes of John being beheaded, or feature his severed head, for it is only in those places where he is particularly venerated that such imagery is deemed appropriate.
Tupinamba Indians of Brazil venerated a series of civilizing or creator heroes.
I blush to say that my venerated ancestor received from Goodman Hancock the painfully exiguous sum of no pounds, no shillings, and sixpence.
In an age which venerated the Miles Gloriosus and thought of the Exploring Officer and his even more shadowy kindred as jackals and cowards, the news that the King himself employed such creatures might be enough to trigger a second English Civil War.
France, could not survive the monarchy, and as if the tempest which scattered the royal ashes of Saint Denys and the treasure of Reims, would also bear away the frail relics and the venerated images of the saint of the Valois.
Swift was often the butt of their waggery, which he bore with great good humor, knowing well, that though they laughed at his singularities, they esteemed his virtues, admired his wit, and venerated his wisdom.
But Clemens quickly realized that although he was venerated, he had not killed the king, and wrote to his friends in Wrentham suggesting that, like him, they had better quit the field: In that booklet I courteously hinted at the long-ago well established fact that even the most gifted human being is merely an ass, and always an ass, when his forbears have furnished him an idol to worship.
But, even in the right, there is the difference that the one set, worshipping the beauty of earth, look no further, while the others, those of recollection, venerate also the beauty of the other world while they, still, have no contempt for this in which they recognize, as it were, a last outgrowth, an attenuation of the higher.
And you should count yourself blessed that after being raised on the infinite wisdom of Guru Vashishta, one of the oldest and most venerated of the Seven Seers, you are now being tutored by yet another of the same septet, the youngest and most powerful seer in this age, Vishwamitra himself.
The name of Thomas Carlyle Craw might be lightly regarded by superfine critics, but by some hundreds of thousands of plain Britons it was extolled and venerated.
And in that church even from the time of Saint Patrick the custom obtained that on the days of the Passover and of the Pentecost these relics should be thereout produced, and venerated in the presence of the people.
The site was already venerated on account of a chapel in honour of the Vergine addolorata which had existed here from very early times.
Perchance he did not worship Ptah or Apis, or other of the gods, but all born upon the Nile venerated Mother Isis, the Queen of Heaven, and bowed to her sovereignty.