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veneˈficious, a. Now rare.
[f. as prec.]
= venefical a.
1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. 266 That it was an old veneficious practice, and Juno is made in this posture to hinder the delivery of Alcmæna. 1650Charleton tr. Van Helmont's Paradoxes 53 In this place we have nothing to doe with Veneficious Witches, properly called Sorcerers. 1702Sherburne Seneca's Trag. 207 note, The Bonds and Fetters of veneficious Incantations. 1904Le Queux Closed Book xxxvi, The actual poison-ring of that veneficious bacchante, Lucrezia Borgia.
Hence veneˈficiously adv. Now rare or Obs.
1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. 265 Lest witches should draw or pricke their names therein, and veneficiously mischiefe their persons. |