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Venereal

//vəˈnɪə.ɹɪ.əl// adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Of or relating to the genitals or sexual intercourse. not-comparable

    "Wouldſt thou not haue ſome Bulchin from the herd / To phyſicke thee of this venereall itch?"

  2. 2
    Of a disease: sexually transmitted; of or relating to, or adapted to the cure of, a venereal disease. not-comparable

    "a venereal medicine"

  3. 3
    Pertaining to the astrological influence of the planet Venus; lascivious, lustful. not-comparable, obsolete

    "The Venereall, are the delitious, laſcivious, mild, kinde, pleaſant, and tame; as the Calfe, cony, dog, goat, and ſcinck."

  4. 4
    Of or relating to copper (formerly called Venus by alchemists). not-comparable, obsolete

    "When after their beaſtly ſport and pleaſure Mounſieur Libid[inoſo] heat of luſt was ſomewhat aſſwaged, and ready to goe, féeling his pocket for a venereall remuneration [i.e., a copper coin] finds nothing but a Teſter, or at leaſt ſo little, that it was not ſufficient to pleaſe dame Pleaſure for her hire. [...] My Ladie would not beléeue Monſ. Libid. a great while, but ſearched and féeled for more coine, [...]"

Adjective
  1. 1
    of or relating to the external sex organs wordnet

Etymology

From Middle English venereal, venerealle (“of or relating to sexual intercourse”), from Latin venereus, venerius (“of or relating to sexual love”), from Venus (“Roman goddess of love”) (from Proto-Indo-European *wenh₁- (“to love”)) + -eus, -ius (suffix forming adjectives from nouns).

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