a. Obs. rare. [ad. L. venerandus, gerundive of venerārī to venerate. So It., Sp., Pg. venerando.] Entitled to veneration.
1549. Chaloner, Erasm. on Folly, K iij. These friers … upholde them in their sermons to the people callyng them worshipfull and venerande maisters.
1677. Gale, Crt. Gentiles, IV. II. iv. § 3. 286. Seing we conceive of Eternitie as most venerand, there is nothing more venerand than the intelligible Divine Essence.
