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单词 venerate
释义 I. ˈvenerate, a. Obs.—1
[ad. L. venerāt-us, pa. pple. of venerārī: see next.]
= prec.
1592R. D. Hypnerotomachia 53 b, They stood all waiting with such a venerate attention, that..they all at one instant time alike made their reverent courtesies.
II. venerate, v.|ˈvɛnəreɪt|
[ad. L. venerāt-, ppl. stem of venerārī (also venerāre) to reverence, worship, adore; whence also It. venerare, Sp. and Pg. venerar, F. vénérer.]
1. trans. To regard with feelings of respect and reverence; to look upon as something exalted, hallowed, or sacred; to reverence or revere.
1623Cockeram i, Venerate, to worship.1656Blount Glossogr., Venerate, to reverence, worship or honour.1742Young Nt. Th. ii. 355 Who venerate themselves, the world despise.1794R. J. Sulivan View Nat. I. 481 But there was a class of Alchymists, whose genius, probity, and conduct, we have reason to venerate.1851D. Wilson Preh. Ann. iv. iv. (1863) II. 293 The ruined chapels are still venerated.1870J. Bruce Life Gideon iv. 70 [We] have learned to venerate the Word of God.
2. To pay honour to (something) by a distinct act of reverence.
1844Lingard Anglo-Sax. Ch. (1858) I. v. 189 Thrice he venerated the sacred remains.
Hence ˈvenerated, ˈvenerating ppl. adjs.
1790Burke Fr. Rev. Wks. V. 84 You would have had..a reformed and *venerated clergy.1818Cobbett Pol. Reg. XXXIII. 169 In the Reports, the Resolutions, and in the venerated Acts, of your Honourable House.1847Prescott Peru (1850) II. 143 It would be easier to govern under the venerated authority to which the homage of the Indians had been so long paid.1873Browning Red Cotton Night-Cap Country 272 Smiling and sighing had the same effect Upon the venerated image.
1663Boyle Usef. Exp. Nat. Philos. I. iii. 55 The Queen of Sheba..then brake forth into pathetic and *venerating exclamations.1828Miss Higginson in Drummond & Upton Life Martineau (1902) I. iii. 50 [Her reply declines to accept from him a] venerating love.1863Geo. Eliot Romola iii. xxxiv, He..saw the faces of men and women lifted towards him in venerating love.1888Ruskin Præterita III. 8 Without..trouble to their venerating visitors in coming so far up hill.
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