adv. [f. as prec.] In a venerable manner; so as to be venerable; † with veneration.
c. 1610. Women Saints (1886), 180. Whose happie passage the Greeke and Latine Churche do venerablie recorde … [on] the fift of August.
1693. Dryden, Juvenal’s Satires, VI. 31. So venerably Ancient is the Sin.
1699. Garth, Dispens., 8. Each Faculty in Blandishments they lull, Aspiring to be venerably dull.
1753. Hanway, Trav., III. xxx. (1762), I. 130. The years that had rendered his beard so venerably hoary.
1791. Huddesford, Salmagundi, 135. Might I but … See thee in scarlet robe encase thy fur, And at St. Mary’s venerably purr!
1818. Byron, Ch. Har., IV. xxxi. His mansion and his sepulchre; both plain And venerably simple.
1838. Fraser’s Mag., XVII. 58. It [the beard] had become venerably red.
