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vĕnĕror , ātus, 1,
I.v. dep. a. [Sanscr. vankh, wish, pray; cf. O. H. Germ. wunsc; Engl. wish; and Lat. Venus, venustas], to reverence with religious awe, to worship, adore, revere, venerate.
I. Lit.
II. Transf., to ask reverently for any thing, to beseech, implore, beg, entreat, supplicate; with ut: “nunc quisquis est deus, veneror, Ut nos ex hac aerumnā miseras eximat,Plaut. Rud. 1, 4, 37; 5, 2, 62; id. Poen. 5, 1, 17; id. Aul. prol. 8; cf. an old formula of prayer in Liv. 8, 9, 7: qui multa deos venerati sint contra ejus salutem, Caecin. ap. Cic. Fam. 6, 7, 2: “nihil horum,Hor. S. 2, 6, 8: “nec tu supplicibus me sis venerata tabellis,Prop. 2, 20 (3, 13), 33.!*?
2. Veneror, as passive, App. M. 11, p. 257, 25; Ambros. Ep. 17, 1.—vĕnĕrātus , a, um, in a pass. signif.: “Ceres, Hor, S. 2, 2, 124: Sibylla,Verg. A. 3, 460; cf. Prisc. p. 794.
A. -nĕrandus , a, um, P. a., worthy of veneration, venerable: “VENERANDISSIMI CAESARES,Inscr. Grut. 209, 2; Paul. Nol. Ep. 38, 3.—
B. vĕnĕranter , adv., with veneration, reverently (eccl. Lat.): “adorant omnes,Tert. Carm. Judic. Dom. 184; Sedul. 5, 432.
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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (29):
    • Cicero, Letters to his Friends, 6.7.2
    • Cicero, On the Agrarian Law, 2.35.95
    • Cicero, Against Verres, 2.4.94
    • Cicero, For Plancius, 40.95
    • Plautus, Truculentus, 2.5
    • Vergil, Aeneid, 3.460
    • Vergil, Aeneid, 3.84
    • Vergil, Aeneid, 5.745
    • Horace, Satires, 2.6.8
    • Tacitus, Annales, 6.8
    • Tacitus, Agricola, 46
    • Plautus, Bacchides, 2.1
    • Plautus, Poenulus, 5.1
    • Plautus, Rudens, 1.4
    • Suetonius, Divus Claudius, 12
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 27.4
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 7.31
    • Pliny the Younger, Epistulae, 6.17.5
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 8, 9
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 36, 17
    • Seneca, de Ira, 3.41.3
    • Cicero, de Natura Deorum, 1.42
    • Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes, 1.21
    • Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 3, 7.7
    • Ovid, Ex Ponto, 1.2
    • Sextus Propertius, Elegies, 2.20
    • Valerius Maximus, Facta et Dicta Memorabilia, 3.8.7
    • Valerius Maximus, Facta et Dicta Memorabilia, 4.5
    • Valerius Maximus, Facta et Dicta Memorabilia, 8.5.6
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