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† veˈnefical, a. Obs.
[See prec. and -al1.]
a. = venefic a. Also fig.
b. Practising, associated with, malignant sorcery or witchcraft.
1584R. Scot Discov. Witchcr. vi. iv. (1886) 95 marg., Of a butcher a right veneficall witch. 1609B. Jonson Masque of Queens Wks. (Rtldg.) 566 These witches..came forth..with spindles, timbrels, rattles, or other venefical instruments. 1652Gaule Magastrom. 39 This they urge as a proof of the possibility of veneficall and metamorphosing or transforming magick. 1715M. Davies Athen. Brit. i. Pref. 57 The loose sheets of Northern Sorceries, translated from the original Code of the venefical Text. 1716Ibid. ii. To Rdr. 9 The same Contagious and Venefical Distemper of Brains and Body.
Hence † veˈnefically adv. Obs.
1652Gaule Magastrom. 280 A magician..wrought it venefically, so that the poore man fell suddenly into a strange disease. |