verb
definition
To treat with great respect and deference.
definition
To revere or hold in awe.
Examples of venerated in a Sentence
He is venerated as a saint both in the Greek and in the Latin Churches.
In other islands the natives venerated the sun, moon, earth and stars.
At the same time, the Latin orators, historians and poets were venerated by him as depositories of a tradition only second in importance to revelation.
A saint greatly venerated on the border of France and Spain, especially in Navarre.
The other, who is commemorated on the 9th of January, was specially venerated at Cluain Ma y scua, Co.
While not as venerated as the Loch Ness monster, the creature has acquired a cult following, and many a tale of El Chupacabra still causes a collective shiver through those gathered around the campfires and fireplaces of the American West.
Without going so far as to deny that some words and phrases may be taken from the writings of the Arabian Jaber, he was disposed to hold that it is the original work of some unknown Latin author, who wrote it in the second half of the r3th century and put it under the patronage of the venerated name of Geber.
The St Valentinus who is spoken of as the apostle of Rhaetia, and venerated in Passau as its first bishop, flourished in the 5th century.
The Acropolis, enclosing venerated temples, crowned the summit of the first hill, where the Seraglio stands.
The people were ardent Catholics, who venerated the nonjuring clergy and resented the measures taken against them.
By the Christians of both churches in Albania he is to this day venerated as a saint.
Whether we regard Gaunab, Heitsi Eibib and Tsui-Goab as originally mythological representations of natural phenomena, or as deified dead men, it is plain that they are now venerated as non-natural human beings, possessing the customary attributes of sorcerers.
A venerated tree in modern Palestine will owe its sanctity to some tradition, associating it, it may be, with some saint; the Israelites in their turn held the belief that the sacred tree at Hebron was one beneath which their first ancestor sat when three divine beings revealed themselves to him.
The Orthodox Greek cathedral (1839) contains a very ancient and highly venerated image of the Virgin.
They had to contend not only with the heretics, the nobles who protected them, and the people who listened to them and venerated them, but also with the bishops of the district, who rejected the extraordinary authority which the pope had conferred upon his legates, the monks.
In accusing Britain of being hostile to their venerated caliph, the Khilafatists were fighting an imaginary enemy.
Would they have done so if she had indeed been the partner in an adulterous liaison with the man they both venerated?
A virgin martyr in Rome whose relics are now venerated in Los Angeles, of which she is the main patron-saint.
A martyr venerated from early times in Carthage in North Africa.
He was and is greatly venerated in the Orthodox Church, West and also East.
Mercury was widely venerated by all sections of society.
Statues found in caves were used by the Dogon as part of their heritage, and were highly venerated.
He was martyred in Flanders and is still venerated in Bruges.
Two saints much venerated in the south of Italy.
Worst of all, the Orthodox tsar occasionally abandoned the decorous flowing robes of his venerated ancestors, and appeared publicly in the unseemly costume of heretical foreigners, whilst his consort, when carried through the streets in a litter, did not conceal her face from the public gaze.
Thinkers chose their doctrines from many sources - from the venerated teaching of Aristotle and Plato, from that of the Pythagoreans and of the Stoics, from the old Greek mythology, and from the Jewish and other Oriental systems. Yet it must be observed that Neoplatonism, Gnosticism, and the other systems which are grouped under the name Alexandrian, were not truly eclectic, consisting, as they did, not of a mere syncretism of Greek and Oriental thought, but of a mutual modification of the two.
Secondly, there are also the locally venerated saints in the West, whose ancient titles have generally been adopted - or else adapted.
During the last few years his image has spread throughout Italy as the most important and venerated icon of Italian Catholicism.
Castro remains more a venerated national father figure than typical Marxist dictator.
Also on Cyprus is another highly venerated islamic site - the third most important after Mecca and Medina - the Hala Sultan Tekke.
His relics were translated to Bruges in Belgium in the ninth century and he has since been venerated as the patron-saint of Bruges.
Ever since he has been venerated as a martyr.
Miracles were worked by his relics and he was venerated as a saint.
But St Nicholas is still venerated there, including by Muslims.
His relics are venerated in the church of St Matthias in Trier.
Using the American flag sparingly, just to celebrate appropriately patriotic occasions, will give a more respectful and meaningful use of the venerated symbol.
The elevation of the relics of the three martyrs was performed by Burchard, the first bishop of Wiirzburg, and they are venerated in the cathedral of that town.
Near the Manikarnika ghat is the well held to have been dug by Vishnu and filled with his sweat; great numbers of pilgrims bathe in its venerated water.
On entering *The fact that the Mitannians venerated Varuna, Indra, and the Asvins is important as showing that Iranian and Indian Aryans had not yet separated as late as 1400 B.C.
He is venerated as a saint and confessor in both the Roman Catholic and Orthodox Eastern Churches.
This shrine is also venerated by Moslems, who call it the tomb of Yusuf (Joseph).
The Yalmal peninsula, where they find great facilities for hunting, is especially venerated by the Ob Ostiak Samoyedes, and there they have one of their chief idols, Khese.
Charlemagne is chiefly venerated as the champion of Christianity against the heathen and the Saracens.
The great opposition which arose during his lifetime continued after his death, and found classic expression in the highly venerated confession of Petrus Mogilas, metropolitan of Kiev (1643).(1643).
The first series of caves, dedicated to St Anthony, contains eighty saints' tombs; the second, dedicated to St Theodosius, a saint greatly venerated in Russia, about forty-five.
Venerated and beloved by the greatest and the lowliest, the old hero entered, as it were, into the immortality of his fame while still among his countrymen.
We can see how early this estimate of relics became general from the fact that the former hesitation as to whether they should be venerated as sacred died out during the 4th century.
Ladislaus was not really a pagan, or he would not have devoted his share of the spoil of Durnkriit to the building of the Franciscan church at Pressburg, nor would he have venerated as he did his aunt St Margaret.
This mountainous character and the absence of any tolerable harbour - Pliny, in enumerating the islands of the Aegean, calls it "importuosissima omnium" - prevented it from ever attaining to any political importance, but it enjoyed great celebrity from its connexion with the worship of the Cabeiri, a mysterious triad of divinities, concerning whom very little is known, but who appear, like all the similar deities venerated in different parts of Greece, to have been a remnant of a previously existing Pelasgic mythology.
There he passed his days as the loved and venerated head of a remarkable, and up to that time unique, society of men and women.