venery1
/ˈvɛn(ə)ri
/noun [mass noun] archaic
Sexual indulgence: not a few of them engaged in venery...
- Rarely use venery but for health or offspring, never to dullness, weakness, or the injury of your own or another's peace or reputation.
- And further, it is greatly irritated by constant contact with the clothing and stimulates venery and coitus.
- What is reading but a vice, like drink or venery or any other form of excessive self-indulgence?
Origin
Late Middle English: from medieval Latin veneria, from venus, vener- 'sexual love'.
Rhymes
venery2
/ˈvɛn(ə)ri/noun [mass noun] archaic
Hunting.We feel that it is one of the finest hunts of venery that we actually see....
- So we are, as Phil said, more concerned with the art of venery rather than the galloping over other people's land.
Origin
Middle English: from Old French venerie, from vener 'to hunt', from Latin venari.