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▪ I. † ˈveneral, a.1 Obs.
[ad. med.L. Venerāl-is, f. Vener-, Venus Venus1.]
1. = venereal a. 1.
1591Sparry tr. Cattan's Geomancie 105 This figure is ill, except it be for warre or actes venerall. 1624Heywood Gunaik. ix. 453 By their unanimous consent they vowed perpetual abstinence from all venerall actions.
2. = venereous a. 1 and 3.
1623Cockeram i, Venerall, giuen to fleshly wantonnesse. 1651J. F[reake] Agrippa's Occ. Philos. 97 They that will gather a Venerall, Mercuriall, or Lunary Hearb must look toward the West.
3. = venereal a. 2.
1651French Distill. iii. 75 This Oil so purifies the bloud,..that it cures all distempers that arise from the impurity thereof, as the venerall disease. 1698G. Thomas Pensilvania 19 Sarsaparilla, so much us'd in Diet-Drinks for the Cure of the Veneral Disease. 1803Med. Jrnl. IX. 556 A more recent case of a true elephantiasis, that followed a veneral infection, is added.
▪ II. † veneral, a.2 Obs.—1
[Cf. med.L. venerālitas venerability.]
= venerable a. 2 b.
1631Mabbe Celestina i. 29 What a venerall and reverend countenance did hee carry! |