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▪ I. venery1 Now arch.|ˈvɛnərɪ|
Forms: 4–5 veneri, -erye, 5–7, 9 venerie, 5 wenery, 5– venery; 4 venorye, 5 -ur(i)e, 7 -arie, 7–8 -ary.
[a. OF. venerie (F. vénerie), f. vener:—L. venārī to hunt: see -ery.]
1. The practice or sport of hunting beasts of game; the chase. Also attrib.
c1320Sir Tristr. 296 On hunting oft he ȝede, To swiche a lawe he drewe.., More he couþe of veneri Þan couþe manerious. c1330R. Brunne Chron. Wace (Rolls) 856 To venerye he gaf his tent; An herde of hertes sone þey met. 1422Yonge tr. Secreta Secret. 247 Delite in honeste Play, and hit beholde, as..bestis to chase in venurie. 1486Bk. St. Albans e v b, That is the first worde, my sonne, of venery. 1577Harrison Descr. Brit. ii. xv, They..daily ouerthrew townes, villages, and an infinite sort of families for the maintenance of their Venery. 16022nd Pt. Return fr. Parnass. ii. v. 893 These are your speciall beasts for chase, or as wee Huntsmen call it, for venery. a1666[see venatical a.]. 1719Boyer Dict. Royal ii, A venery Book, or Book of Venery.
1837W. Irving Capt. Bonneville III. 122 These veterans of the wilderness are exceedingly pragmatical on points of venery and woodcraft. 1883Standard 4 May 2/2 Other worthy professors of venery were glad to ‘coach’ him. 1891J. G. Austin Betty Alden 110 'Tis bad venerie when you have trapped a wolf to let him go free on the chance some other man will finish your work.
b. In the phrases beasts, game, hounds of venery.
c1400Mandeville (Roxb.) xxiii. 105 All maner of wylde bestez of wenery, as hertez and hyndez. 1432–50tr. Higden (Rolls) VI. 379 That place..havynge in hit diverse kyndes of bestes of venery. c1450Pol., Rel., & L. Poems (1903) 60 Howndes of venery coste more then they aveyle. 1539Act 31 Hen. VIII, c. 5 A chace..for norisshinge, generacion, and feeding of beastes of venery and of fowles of Warren. 1563Queen Elizabeth Let. in Abp. Parker Corr. (Parker Soc.) 175 Keeper of park-houses, warrens, or other game of venerie. 1587Harrison Descr. Brit. ii. xix. in Holinshed 206/1 The beasts of the chase were commonlie the bucke, the roe, the fox, and the marterne. But those of venerie in old time were the hart, the hare, the bore and the woolfe. 1603G. Owen Pembrokeshire (1892) 266 These beastes of chace are not in estimacion soe royall as the former beastes of Venerye. 1760–72tr. Juan & Ulloa's Voy. (ed. 3) I. 436 Many beasts of venery, which feed on the straw or rush peculiar to those parts. 1765Blackstone Comm. I. 289 Forests are waste grounds belonging to the king, replenished with all manner of beasts of chase or venary.
†2. Wild animals hunted as game. Also fig.
c1350Will. Palerne 1685 Hyndes & hertes,..bukkes and beris and oþer bestes wilde, of alle fair venorye þat falles to metes. c1440Ipomydon 415 This lady to hyr mete gan gone, And of venery had hyr fille, For they had take game at wille. 1470–85Malory Arthur x. lxxxvii. 568 In the meane whyle syr Tristram chaced and hunted at alle maner of venery. 1539Elyot Cast. Helthe 29 The hunting of them [sc. deer] beinge not so pleasant, as the huntynge of other venery or vermyne. 1550J. Coke Eng. & Fr. Heralds §3 Parkes..full of venery, as hartes, hyndes, falow-dere, wylde bores, and wolves for noble men to course. 1590Spenser F.Q. i. vi. 22 To the wood she goes, to..seeke her spouse, that from her still does fly, And followes other game and venery. 1630R. Johnson's Kingd. & Commw. 115 Woods wonderfully abounding with venerie.
transf.1550Latimer Serm. (1562) 114 b, They must haue swyne for theyr foode to make theyr veneryes or bacon of; theyr bacon is theyr venison.
†3. A place where hunting-dogs are kept. Obs.—1
1653Urquhart Rabelais i. lv. 242 The Venerie, where the Beagles and Hounds were kept, was a little farther off drawing towards the Park.
▪ II. venery2|ˈvɛnərɪ|
Also 5–6 venerie.
[f. L. Vener-, Venus Venus1 + -y.]
1. The practice or pursuit of sexual pleasure; indulgence of sexual desire.
1497Extr. Aberd. Reg. (1844) I. 425 It was statut..that all licht weman be chargit and ordanit to decist fra thar vicis and syne of venerie. 1535Stewart Cron. Scot. II. 430 As brutell beistis takand appetyte, In venerie putting thair haill delyte. 1567J. Maplet Gr. Forest 34 Birdes tongue, is an Herbe whose chief working is to prouoke Uenerie. 1607Dekker Northward Hoe iii, Venery is like vsery,..it may be allowed tho it be not lawfull. 1643Sir T. Browne Relig. Med. i. §30 A body, wherein there may be action enough to content decrepit lust, or passion to satisfie more active veneries. 1698Fryer Acc. E. India & P. 378 Nor does it seldom fall out, from their aptness to Venery,..that they are afflicted with terrible Mariscæ. 1725N. Robinson Th. Physick 152 The Passions of the Mind have a great Influence, as also excessive Venery. 1774Goldsm. Nat. Hist. (1776) III. 197 If the tusks..be broke away, the animal abates of its fierceness and venery. 1803Med. Jrnl. IX. 139 He..gave himself up to his former intemperance in spirits and in venery. 1876Gross Dis. Bladder, etc. i. i. 18 Occasionally it [i.e. acute cystitis] is traceable to the effects of excessive venery.
†2. fig. A source of great enjoyment. Obs.
1602Middleton The Phœnix iii. i. F 4, 'Twas e'en Venerie to me, y'faith, the pleasantst course of life. a1625Fletcher Noble Gent. iv. iv, To me The fooling of this fool is venery. |