What is "venerated"

Usage examples of "venerated".

Now I go often to the Chamber of the Venerated Ones, to see if there are any souls that I can touch.

This remote, venerated demigod, this archangel from the highest spheres of heaven, had appeared in the flesh.

Some referred to him with amusement as a crank, others venerated him as a kind of saint.

Knecht knew of this, and rejoiced at the prospect of staying in a place of which his venerated Master had occasionally spoken with pleasure.

In similar fashion Johann Albrecht Bengel, whom they both venerated, had in his time served a small and transitory sect without neglecting his duties to the Eternal.

Joseph himself was a small Latin school pupil who had waited in the room for the Music Master, partly frightened, partly overjoyed, and who now saw the venerated figure for the first time, the Master from the legendary Province of elite schools, and the Magister who had come to show him what music was, who then led him step by step into his Province, his realm, into the elite and the Order, and whose colleague and brother he had now become, while the old man had laid aside his magic wand, or his scepter, and had been transformed into an amiably taciturn, still kindly, still revered, but still mysterious elder whose look and example hovered over Joseph's life and who would always be a generation and several stages of life ahead of him, as well as immeasurably greater in dignity and also modesty, in mastership and in mystery, but would always remain his patron and model, gently compelling him to walk in his steps, as a rising and setting planet draws its brothers after it.

We prefer neither to judge nor to convert, but rather to tell the history of our venerated Master's last days with the greatest possible truthfulness.

But how had this venerated man, one of the pillars of the hierarchy, come to such a decision?

It was by no means impossible that these great works of art, with their intrinsic beauty and an indefinable numinous power, could have been preserved and venerated by many different cultures before being buried at San Lorenzo.

All the archaeological evidence indicated that from the beginning they had venerated huge stone heads and stele showing bearded men.

If this venerated object were assembled, would its power be any less tempting to those who wished to stop Josich from doing it?

And they have all these as gods, called by their own names distinguished by their own offices, and venerated with their own altars and rites.

But the ignorant and the ungodly, who are not destined to receive favors from the gods, nor to know the immortal Jupiter, not listening to the gods and their messages, have turned away from all gods, and have not only refused to hate, but have venerated the prohibited demons.

You are the granddaughter of the venerated Motecuzóma, and he was born of a virgin.

Though no longer widely worshiped, the aged, wrinkled, sardonically smiling Huehueteotl was still venerated as the god first recognized in these lands and known since time before human memory, long before Quetzalcoatl or any of the later favorites.