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venereal en · ADJ

Pronunciation

/vəˈnɪə.ɹɪ.əl/ (Received-Pronunciation)
/vəˈnɪ.ɹi.əl/ (General-American)
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/vɪ-/ (Received-Pronunciation)

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).

Meanings

(not-comparable) Of or relating to the genitals or sexual intercourse.
- Wouldſt thou not haue ſome Bulchin from the herd / To phyſicke thee of this venereall itch? 1637, Tho[mas] Heywood, “Ivpiter and Io”, in Pleasant Dialogues and Dramma’s, Selected out of Lucian, Erasmus, Textor, Ovid, &c. […], London: […] R. O[ulton] for R. H[earne], and are to be sold by Thomas Slater […], →OCLC, page 170:
- [B]ecauſe ſuch hot temperaments are prone to Venerie, hence the Poets feigned, that Mars lay with Venus; and withall to ſhew, how much ſouldiers are given to Venereall luſts; [...] 1648, Alexander Ross, chapter XI, in Mystagogvs Poeticvs, or The Muses Interpreter: Explaining the Historicall Mysteries, and Mysticall Histories of the Ancient Greek and Latine Poets. […], 2nd edition, London: Printed by T. W. for Thomas Whitaker […], →OCLC, page 258:
- Then ſwoll'n with pride into the ſnare I fell / Of fair, fallacious looks, venereal trains, / Softn'd with pleaſure and voluptuous life; [...] 1671, John Milton, “Samson Agonistes, […].”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC, page 37, lines 533–535:
- And so, while husbands are worshiping at their boyhood shrines, being the lawyers, merchants, or masterminds their parents wanted them to be, their wives, even after fourteen years of marriage and two fine children produced and raised, are still on the search for love - which can come to them only from the centaurs, sileni, satyrs, and other concupiscent incubi of the rout of Pan [...] as in our popular, vanilla-frosted temples of the venereal goddess, under the make-up of the latest heroes of the screen. 1968, Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces, 2nd edition, London: Fontana Press, published 1993, page 12:
(not-comparable) Of a disease: sexually transmitted; of or relating to, or adapted to the cure of, a venereal disease.
- [I]t must be recognized that there are two distinct and separate phases of venereal disease education: (1) the imparting to the individual of adequate technical knowledge of the venereal diseases and their prevention, and (2) the motivation of the individual with the will to avoid either illicit sexual intercourse or unprotected sexual exposure. 1944 November, Thomas H. Sternberg, Granville W. Larimore, “Army Contributions to Postwar Venereal Disease Control Planning”, in Venereal Disease Control: Proceedings, National Conference, St. Louis, Missouri, November 1944 (Journal of Venereal Disease Information; supplement no. 20), Washington, D.C.: U.S. Public Health Service, Federal Security Agency; United States Government Printing Office, published 1945, →OCLC, page 23:
- [...] Who can imagine that in a venereall ulcer, wherein there is corruption of the bone, there ſhould be two ſorts of ulcers ſpecifically differing? to wit, one in the fleſhy part, and another in the bone, the ſame humor cauſing both. 1650, Alexander Read, “[A Treatise of Ulcers. The Second Treatise.] Lect[ure] III. Of the Generall Differences and Signes of Ulcers.”, in The Workes of that Famous Physitian Dr. Alexander Read, […], 2nd edition, London: Printed by E. G. for Richard Thrale, and are to be sold by Iohn Clarke […], →OCLC, page 88:
- a venereal medicine
- Within a fortnight of their arrival 'a startling outburst' of venereal disease occurred among the troops. Over the next four months more than 2000 Australian soldiers were infected. 2008, Peter Rees, “The Prelude”, in The Other Anzacs: Nurses at War 1914–1918, Crows Nest, N.S.W.: Allen & Unwin, →ISBN; The Other Anzacs: The Extraordinary Story of Our World War I Nurses, paperback edition, Crows Nest, N.S.W.: Allen & Unwin, 2009, →ISBN, page 27:
- [...] I like not his countenance; I am afraid he labours of the venereall murre. 1597, Don Richardo de Medico Campo [pseudonym; Richard Lichfield], The Trimming of Thomas Nashe Gentleman, London: […] [Edward Allde] for Philip Scarlet, →OCLC; republished as J[ohn] P[ayne] C[ollier], editor, The Trimming of Thomas Nashe Gentleman (Miscellaneous Tracts, Temp. Eliz. & Jac. I), [London: s.n.], 1870, →OCLC, page 7:
- Venereal diseases were responsible for four deaths and 141 final invalidings, [...] 1913 December 20, “Health of the British Navy”, in The North-China Herald and Supreme Court & Consular Gazette: The Weekly Edition of the North-China Daily News, volume CIX (New Series), number 2419, Shanghai: Printed and published at the offices of the North-China Daily News & Herald, Ld., →OCLC, page 924, column 2:
(not-comparable, obsolete) Pertaining to the astrological influence of the planet Venus; lascivious, lustful.
- The Venereall, are the delitious, laſcivious, mild, kinde, pleaſant, and tame; as the Calfe, cony, dog, goat, and ſcinck. 1661, Robert Lovell, “Isagoge Zoologicomineralogica. Or An Introduction to the History of Animals and Minerals, or Panzoographie, and Pammineralogie.”, in ΠΑΝΖΩΟΡΥΚΤΟΛΟΓΙΑ [PANZŌORYKTOLOGIA]. Sive Panzoologicomineralogia. Or A Compleat History of Animals and Minerals, Containing the Summe of All Authors, both Ancient and Modern, Galenicall and Chymicall, …, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Hen[ry] Hall, for Jos[eph] Godwin, →OCLC:
(not-comparable, obsolete) Of or relating to copper (formerly called Venus by alchemists).
- 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, [...] 1602, S[amuel] R[owlands], “How a Citizen was Serued by a Curtizan”, in Greenes Ghost Havnting Conie-catchers. […], London: Printed [by Peter Short?] for R[oger] Iackson, and I. North, […], →OCLC; republished in The Complete Works of Samuel Rowlands: 1598–1628: Now First Collected, volume I, [Glasgow]: Printed [by R. Anderson] for the Hunterian Club, 1880, →OCLC, page 42:

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venereall		alternative	lexicographic

Translations (30)

ga véinéireach (of a disease: sexually transmitted) · ka ვენერიული (of a disease: sexually transmitted) · ka ვენერიული (of or relating to the genitals or sexual intercourse) · is samræðis- (of or relating to the genitals or sexual intercourse) · pl weneryczny (of a disease: sexually transmitted) · bg венерически (of a disease: sexually transmitted) · la venerealis (of or relating to the genitals or sexual intercourse) · es venéreo (of a disease: sexually transmitted) · gd drùiseil (of or relating to the genitals or sexual intercourse) · ka ავხორცი (of or relating to the genitals or sexual intercourse) · az zöhrəvi (of a disease: sexually transmitted) · sv venerisk (of a disease: sexually transmitted) · nl venerisch (of a disease: sexually transmitted) · mk венеричен (of a disease: sexually transmitted) · ro veneric (of a disease: sexually transmitted) · pt venéreo (of a disease: sexually transmitted) · fr aphroditique (of a disease: sexually transmitted) · eo venera (of a disease: sexually transmitted) · it venereo (of a disease: sexually transmitted) · cmn 性病的 (of a disease: sexually transmitted) · ja 性病の (of a disease: sexually transmitted) · ru венери́ческий (of a disease: sexually transmitted) · sh venèričnī (of or relating to the genitals or sexual intercourse) · sh венѐричнӣ (of or relating to the genitals or sexual intercourse) · is kyn- (of or relating to the genitals or sexual intercourse) · ga drúisiúil (of or relating to the genitals or sexual intercourse) · fr vénérien (of a disease: sexually transmitted) · de venerisch (of a disease: sexually transmitted) · fi veneerinen (of a disease: sexually transmitted) · sv venerisk (of or relating to the genitals or sexual intercourse)

venereal en · ADJ

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