Venomer

noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    One who or that which poisons. dated, rare

    "And yet it would have been an excellent thing in the good old toxicological days of Italy; and people of noble family would have found a sensitive goblet of this sort as sovereign against the arts of venomers as an exclusive diet of boiled eggs."

Example

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"And yet it would have been an excellent thing in the good old toxicological days of Italy; and people of noble family would have found a sensitive goblet of this sort as sovereign against the arts of venomers as an exclusive diet of boiled eggs."

Etymology

From venom + -er.

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