In Gluck's day such an act was considered a tip of the hat to a revered master.
Our revered master, Lorentz, anxious to retire from regular university teaching, had recognized Ehrenfest for the inspired teacher that he was and recommended him as his successor.
Devotion to past masters became a high calling, even though the revered masters themselves would have had no respect for such a reactionary attitude.
The Tibetans suggest it was a meeting between a pupil (the Emperor) and a revered master (the Lama).
The center was founded in 1960 by Ryu Kun Hyong, South Korea's oldest potter and most revered master of celadon ceramics.
When Beethoven moved from Bonn to Vienna in 1792 at 21, he studied composition with Haydn, then a revered master of 60.
He later perfected his technique by attending the "Conservatoire de Musique" in Casablanca and by following some of the most revered masters of Andalusian music.
The dancers had for weeks been in monastic seclusion studying each motion under the direction of the most revered masters of the art.
In 1522, at Salamanca, Domingo de San Juan referred to him as "the revered master, John Mair, a man celebrated the world over".
Julia's friend Eva urges Julia to study in Algiers with a revered Sufi master at a school of "the annihilation of the ego".