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Перевод: venerable

[прилагательное]
почтенный; маститый; мастистый; древний; освященный веками; преподобный

Тезаурус:

1. If one looks at seventh-century England, as described by the Venerable Bede, it is hard (for all his efforts) to see much difference between the pagan Penda of Mercia and the Christian Oswald of Northumbria as rulers.
2. That could also drive the country towards the dangers that the venerable Mr Likhachev foresees.
3. Lady after lady breathed heavier when Pen dashed in and out, and on the days when Wilson was a little late with the supper - which she now undertook to provide - on account of having been delayed taking tea with Mrs Browning there was not a word of complaint but only a diffident enquiry as to how the venerable poetess had seemed.
4. But there was another reason why some places were holy - not intrinsically - but through their association with a past even more venerable than that of the martyrs: the sites of the lives of the apostles and the Lord.
5. Although the dog-collar is but an innovation of a mere 100 years antiquity, the wearing of robes are more venerable.
6. Although occasionally an older vessel may substitute for one in dry dock, many venerable craft have been pensioned off.
7. But the war had not finally been won when, on 25 October 1760, George II died suddenly, a venerable 76, of a heart attack, "in the greatest period," as Horace Walpole wrote, "of the glory of his country and of his reign".
8. The equally venerable single-handed Optimist is flourishing.
9. Drawing upon the culinary cred associated with "motherhood", the ARC found an Acadmie des Mres Cuisinires for its more venerable members in 1990.
10. Dunster by John Mortimer Viking, 14.99 Crimson by Shirley Conran Sidgwick Jackson, 14.99 Riot, Risings Revolution by Ian Gilmour Hutchinson, 25 JOHN MORTIMER is a sufficiently venerable figure to attract good notices on bad days as well as good.
11. Gerrard National, the venerable City discount house, is not easily swayed from its time-honoured customs.
12. THE NATURAL CLIMAX vegetation of Southern Britain is deciduous woodland, and as late as 731 A.D. the Venerable Bede described the Wealden Forest as being "thick and impenetrable".
13. The glass cone at Lemington, although incomplete, is one of few such survivals in Britain, and particularly in the region where the Venerable Bede tells us that French glassmakers were brought over to teach the "English nation their handicraft", which had been lost here after the departure of the Romans.