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▪ I. † veˈnerial, a.1 Obs.
Also 6–7 -all.
[f. L. veneri-us, f. Vener-, Venus. Cf. venereal a.]
1. = venereal a. 1.
1531Elyot Gov. iii. xviii, Thinking..to remoue him from the faythe, rather by veneriall motions, thanne by sharpenesse of tourmentes. 1552Huloet, Veneriall pastime, aphrodisia. 1589Nashe Anat. Absurdity Wks. (Grosart) I. 26 Craftie Cupid..meditates new shifts, which each amorous Courtier by his veneriall experience may coniecturallie conceiue. 1615Crooke Body of Man 553 Those that do too much follow venerial combats haue their eyes smal and extenuated. 1636Davenant Platonick Lovers iii, I found him..Lesse apt for our veneriall Love than Muscovites Benighted when they travell on the Ice.
2. = venereal a. 3 a.
1577Grange Golden Aphrod. Ep. Ded. A iij b, I (who as yet neuer receyued one poynt of discourtesie of any veneriall Dame). Ibid. A iv b, Veneriall dames, and ruffling Nymphes. 1630J. Taylor (Water P.) A Bawd Wks. ii. 93/2 Besides, I found a cursed Catalogue of these veneriall Caterpillers who were supprest with the Monasteries in England.
3. a. Beautiful or attractive like Venus.
1661Morgan Sph. Gentry iii. iv. 38 They described him like a martial man, when they would expresse his heat,..when a venerial woman, described him with a Mirtle garland on his head.
b. Associated with the planet Venus.
1683Tryon Way to Health vi. (1697) 106 The cooler the Water is when you put in the Malt, the Paler or more Venerial will the Colour of your Wort be. Ibid. 109 The predominant Quality..in Ale is Solar and Venerial, viz. Sweet and Balsamick.
4. Employed in curing venereal disease.
17..M. Barrett in Morse Amer. Geog. (1796) I. 682 The next is the venerial root, which, under a vegetable regimen, will cure a confirmed lues.
Hence † veˈnerialist, a specialist in venereal diseases. Obs.—1
1763A. Sutherland Attempts Anc. Med. Doctr. I. Introd. 21 Every disease, every member of the body, has its particular professor. The city swarms with Oculists, Aurarists, Dentists, Venerialists, Nostrumites, &c.
▪ II. † veˈnerial, a.2 Obs.—1
[f. venery1.]
Belonging to the chase. In quot. absol.
1612Drayton Poly-olb. xiii. 93 Of all the Beasts which we for our veneriall name, The Hart amongst the rest, the Hunters noblest game [etc.]. |