Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or relating to hunting.
- adjective Engaging in hunting for sport or livelihood.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to hunting; used in hunting.
- Given to hunting; fond of the chase.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective rare Of or pertaining to hunting; used in hunting.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of, pertaining to or involved in
hunting .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Latin vēnāticus, from vēnātus, past participle of vēnārī, to hunt; see wen- in Indo-European roots.]
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
From Latin vēnāticus ("of or pertaining to hunting"), from vēnātus ("hunting, the chase"), from vēnor ("hunt, chase").
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Examples
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He has, in the midst of all his confusion and passionateness, the true instinct of philosophy — the true venatic sense of objective truth.
Spare Hours John Brown 1846
whichbe commented on the word venatic
Of, relating to, or used in hunting; fond of or living by hunting.
May 11, 2008
knitandpurl commented on the word venatic
"In his youth he had wrestled upon a mat in the manner of the Greeks and had downed the largest buck in the eastern wood as was ever felled by bow and arrow—that record holding itself in perpetuity given the fact that hunting in both woods was now prohibited (though the law was broken now and again, almost exclusively by members of the congenitally-venatic Scadger clan)."
Under the Harrow by Mark Dunn, p 278
September 4, 2011