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单词 venefice
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Etymology: < Latin venēficium, < venēficus venefic adj. So Old French venefice, French vénéfice, Italian veneficio, Spanish veneficio, Portuguese veneficio.
Obsolete.
The practice of employing poison or magical potions; the exercise of sorcery by such means.
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the world > the supernatural > the occult > sorcery, witchcraft, or magic > [noun] > malignant sorcery > using poison
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c1380 J. Wyclif Sel. Wks. II. 349 Þe sixte werk of leccherie is venefice, þat is þanne done whan men usen experimentis to geten þis werk of leccherie.
1588 J. Harvey Discoursiue Probl. conc. Prophesies 72 By knots,..incantations, or other impoisonings, and venefices, to harme, endamage, or hurt any other.
1626 Sir J. Elliott Def. in J. Rushworth Hist. Coll. (1659) 362 Nor did he apply the Veneries and Venefices of Sejanus to the Duke.
1652 J. Gaule Πυς-μαντια To Rdr. sig. *2 I..fear them not at all; Not their..incantations, venefices, malefices, &c.
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