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† veˈnereous, a. Obs.
Also 6 venereus.
[f. L. venere-us (whence It., Sp., Pg. venereo) + -ous. Cf. OF. venereeux and venerious a.]
1. Of persons (or animals): Addicted to, desirous of, sexual enjoyment; libidinous, lustful.
1509Barclay Shyp of Folys (1570) 115 Venereous people haue all their whole pleasaunce Their vice to nourishe by this unthrifty daunce. 1562Legh Armory 95 The gote, saieth Isidore, is very venereus, but fighteth not therefore. 1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts 300 There is no kind (man only excepted) that is so venereous and nimble in generation as is a Horsse or Mare. 1662J. Davies tr. Olearius' Voy. Ambass. 94 The Muscovites are extremely venereous. 1713Derham Phys.-Theol. (1727) 391 The Males are less than the Females [and] are very venereous.
2. = venereal a. 1.
1542Udall Erasm. Apoph. 204 The acte of venereous copulation. 1578Lyte Dodoens 182 The Conserve of the floures thereof..putteth away all venereous dreames. 1615G. Sandys Trav. iv. 307 In that heate and moisture are the parents of venereous desires. 1650T. Hubbert Pill Formality 138 His sinful and venereous thoughts must carry him on. 1681H. More in Glanvill Sadducismus 36 Their having any lustful or venereous transactions with them. 1795J. Macknight Epist. (1820) III. 297 This signifies the gratification of venereous desires.
b. = venereal a. 2.
1661Lovell Hist. Anim. & Min. 11 The greene caustick oil of brasse, cureth venereous pushes.
3. Exciting or stimulating sexual desire.
1611Coryat Crudities 268 As for thine eyes, shut them and turne them aside from those venereous Venetian objects. 1626Bacon Sylva §546 Upon the same reason Mushrooms are a Venereous meat. 1694Motteux Rabelais v. xxix. 146 Salads, wholly made up of venereous Herbs and Fruits.
4. Dedicated to Venus. rare—1.
1592R. D. Hypnerotom. 79 Such hayre as Berenice did never vow to in the Venereous Temple for her Tholemæus.
Hence † veˈnereously adv.; † veˈnereousness.
1659H. More Immort. Soul iii. viii. 408 Theocritus merrily sets out the Venereousness of the Goatheard he describes. 1665M. N. Med. Medicinæ 65 Let a man that hath the Gout be venereously infected. |
