venene meaning (obsolete): definition, etymology and quotations

venene

noun

Etymology From Latin venēnum (“juice; venom”). Doublet of venin and venom.

Obsolete Synonym of venom.

adj

Etymology From Latin venēnum (“juice; venom”). Doublet of venin and venom.

Obsolete Venenose, venenous, venomous, poisonous.

[…] As first, if the Humor is malign, venene, or pestilential, wherein if Nature protudes the Morbick-matter outwards, we ought not to drive it back again to the internal parts; […]1699, William Salmon, Ars chirurgica, page 506:
a most salubrious Remedy, which Effects it demonstrates by powerfully provoking Sweat in all pestilential and venene, or malign Disaffections.1720, George Bate, Pharmacopœia Bateana: or, Bate's dispensatory […] , page 339:

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[…] and imparting aliture [nourishment] to myriads of venene and umbelliferous […] plants.1870, Samuel Klinefelter Hoshour, Letters to Squire Pedant in the East, page 53: