Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Inclined to the service of Venus, or to sexual desire and intercourse.
  • Amorous; wanton.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective obsolete Devoted to the offices of Venus, or love; venereal.

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  • adjective obsolete Devoted to the offices of Venus, or love; venereal.

Etymologies

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Compare French vénérien.

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Examples

  • Only have a special care, and take good heed thou solder well together the joints of the double-backed and two-bellied beast, and fortify thy nerves so strongly, that there be no discontinuance in the knocks of the venerean thwacking, else thou art lost, poor soul.

    Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

  • To this purpose Hippocrates also writeth in his book, De Aere, Aqua et Locis, that in his time there were people in Scythia as impotent as eunuchs in the discharge of a venerean exploit, because that without any cessation, pause, or respite they were never from off horseback, or otherwise assiduously employed in some troublesome and molesting drudgery.

    Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

  • Only have a special care, and take good heed thou solder well together the joints of the double-backed and two-bellied beast, and fortify thy nerves so strongly, that there be no discontinuance in the knocks of the venerean thwacking, else thou art lost, poor soul.

    Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

  • To this purpose Hippocrates also writeth in his book, De Aere, Aqua et Locis, that in his time there were people in Scythia as impotent as eunuchs in the discharge of a venerean exploit, because that without any cessation, pause, or respite they were never from off horseback, or otherwise assiduously employed in some troublesome and molesting drudgery.

    Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

  • Aere, Aqua et Locis_: -- That in his time there were people in Scythia as impotent as eunuchs in the discharge of a venerean exploit; because that, without any cessation, pause or respite, they were never from off horseback, or otherwise, assiduously employed in some troublesome and molesting drudgery.

    Aphrodisiacs and Anti-aphrodisiacs: Three Essays on the Powers of Reproduction John Davenport 1833

  • To this purpose Hippocrates also writeth in his book, De Aere, Aqua et Locis, that in his time there were people in Scythia as impotent as eunuchs in the discharge of a venerean exploit, because that without any cessation, pause, or respite they were never from off horseback, or otherwise assiduously employed in some troublesome and molesting drudgery.

    Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518

  • a special care, and take good heed thou solder well together the joints of the double-backed and two-bellied beast, and fortify thy nerves so strongly, that there be no discontinuance in the knocks of the venerean thwacking, else thou art lost, poor soul.

    Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518

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