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venatic, a.|vɪˈnætɪk|
[ad. L. vēnātic-us, f. vēnārī to hunt. So obs. F. venatique.]
Of or pertaining to, employed in, devoted to, hunting.
1656Blount Glossogr., Venatick, belonging to hunting or chasing. 1731Medley Kolben's Cape G. Hope I. 244 The Hassagaye the Hottentots look upon as the most notable martial and venatick weapon they have. 1849Fraser's Mag. XL. 3 [Stories of hunting] written with ten times the..vigour, and picturesqueness, either venatic or literary. 1865Daily Tel. 4 March, Why are not other nations which have passed through the same venatic period as deeply imbued with the spirit of sport? 1889Baden-Powell Pigsticking 19, I adore, with a sort of venatic worship, both a fox and a hound.
So veˈnatical a. Hence veˈnatically adv.
a1666Howell Lett. (1678) IV. 4 Ther be three [places] for Venery or Venatical plesure in England, viz. a Forrest, a Chase and a Park. 1887Field 26 Feb. 267/1, I do not know whether that vernal saint, Valentine, was venatically-minded. 1893Ibid. 11 March 345/1 Venatically workmanlike. |