0 present participle of venerate --
1 to honour or very much respect a person or thing: --
Robert Burns is Scotland's most venerated poet.
Alongside its scholarly thought were hagiographic stories venerating its leadership.
After venerating the icon in the narthex they enter the nave and make three metanias (bows at the waist) or prostrations, depending upon the day.
They were indicative of great respect, and typically used when venerating a king.
One story holds that a servant witnessed her venerating her icons and reported her to the emperor.
Although temples to either the civil or martial deities alone are widespread, it is comparatively rare to have temples venerating both.
Many young people wear necklaces venerating particular martyrs, posters decorate the walls of towns and rock and music videos extol the virtues of bombers.
Beware of the danger of venerating idols!
That new cathedral would not have the same hallowing and venerating influences as are possessed by the present structure.
