venerant (venerant)

[ When we pronounce the name of Giotto, our venerant thoughts are at A isi and Padua. Ruskin, Modern Painters, III. i., 1, note. venerate (ven'e-rat), v . t.; pret. and pp. vener ated , ppr. venerating . [L. veneratus, pp. of venerari (> It. venerare = Sp. Pg. venerar = F. vénérer ), worship, venerate, revere; from the same source as Venus , love: see Venus .] To regard with respect and reverence; treat as hallowed; revere; reverence. While beings form'd in coarser mould will hate The helping hand they ought to venerate. Crabbe, Works, V. 214. The Venetian merchants, compelled to seek safety in Alexandria, visited the church in which the bones of St. Mark were preserved and venerated. C. E. Norton, Church-building in Middle Ages, p. 47. =Syn. Worship , etc. See adore.