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venereal, a. and n.|vɪˈnɪərɪəl|
Also 5 venerealle, 6–7 -all.
[f. L. venere-us, f. Vener-, Venus Venus1. Cf. venerial a.]
1. a. Of or pertaining to, associated or connected with, sexual desire or intercourse.
1432–50tr. Higden (Rolls) II. 199 The sawle of man in the vse venerealle [L. usu venereo] transmittethe interially formes other similitudes conceyvede exterially. 1509Barclay Shyp of Folys (1570) ⁋⁋iv, Here are vile women, whom loue immoderate, And lust Venereall, bringeth to hurt and shame. 1610Healey St. Aug. Citie of God xiv. xv. (1620) 490 Such is hunger and thirst, and the venereall affect, vsually called lust. 1688Norris Love ii. §ii. 95 Concerning sensual pleasure, especially that eminent species of it which we call venereal, there is more difficulty. 1727Swift Circumcision of E. Curll Wks. 1755 III. i. 163 Those appetites are now become venal, which should be venereal. 1753Smollett Ct. Fathom (1784) 159/1 We have formerly descanted upon that venereal appetite which glowed in the constitution of our adventurer. 1831J. Davies Mat. Med. 55 In the cure of..anaphrodisia or want of venereal passion.
†b. (See quot.) Obs.—1
1658Rowland tr. Moufet's Theat. Ins. 999 Divers Authors do speak of four other sorts of Moths, viz. the Venereal, bred in the genitals of men; the Bee Moth, the Cloth Moth, and the Library or Book Moth.
2. a. Resulting from, or communicated by, sexual intercourse with an infected person; symptomatic of, or associated with, a disease so caused.
1658Phillips, Venereal disease..is vulgarly called the French Pox. 1660Milton Free Commw. Wks. 1851 V. 445 These new Fanatics of..the sweating-tub, inspir'd with nothing holier than the Venereal Pox. 1667Phil. Trans. II. 564 A lusty robust Souldier dangerously infected with the Venereal Disease. 1710Addison Tatler No. 226 ⁋5 [He] was particularly famous for the Cure of Venereal Distempers. 1758J. S. Le Dran's Observ. Surg. (1771) 16 He looked upon the Distemper to proceed from a Venereal Cause, therefore exhibited Antivenereals. 1805Med. Jrnl. XIV. 127 Unless we suppose the pain he has in his joints to arise from latent venereal virus. 1860Tanner Pregnancy v. 228 Another way in which it is highly probable that a woman may receive the venereal taint. 1878T. Bryant Pract. Surg. I. 174 Venereal warts are very abundant.
b. Of persons: Infected with, suffering from, venereal disease.
1683Snape Anat. Horse iii. v. (1686) 112 Till it have mortified and consum'd them (as happens sometimes to venereal Persons). 1843R. J. Graves Syst. Clin. Med. xxiv. 296 A return of the venereal patients treated in the 38th Regimental Hospital.
c. ellipt. as n. Venereal disease.
1843R. J. Graves Syst. Clin. Med. xxv. 317 [He] does not consider it [i.e. mercury] a specific for the venereal. Ibid. xxix. 371 His skin became covered with an extensive papular..eruption, which was looked upon by many as true venereal.
d. ellipt. as n. A person with venereal disease.
1788W. Bligh in R. M. Bowker Mutiny!! (1978) vi. 266 Three Venereals in the List. 1933Sun (Baltimore) 23 Feb. 8/3 A veneral draws $257.50 a month, or more than a man blinded by an enemy shell.
†3.
a. Of persons: Under the influence of Venus; inclined to be lascivious; addicted to venery or lust. Obs.
1652Gaule Magastrom. 188 Pronouncing the man..to be saturnine, jovial, martial, solar, venereal, mercurial, lunar? 1665R. Brathwait Comment. Two Tales (1901) 62 In Sense, she was Venereal; in Heart, Martial; Venus gave her the Gift to be lascivious; Mars to be couragious. 1728Chambers Cycl. s.v., A Venereal Person.
†b. Of animals: (see quot.). Obs.—1
1661Lovell Hist. Anim. & Min. Isagoge c 3, The Venereall [animals], are the delitious,..mild, kinde, pleasant, and tame; as the Calfe, cony, dog, goat, and scinck.
†c. (Cf. vitriol of Venus s.v. Venus1.) Obs.
1684–5Boyle Min. Waters 55 Common English Vitriol, as also that of Danzick which is Venereal.
†4. Physically beautiful or attractive. Obs.—1
1598R. Haydocke tr. Lomazzo i. 117 Raph. Vrbine was famous for making of delicate and Venereall bodies. |