Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Lascivious; libidinous; lustful; wanton.
  • Giving vigor for or inclination to sexual intercourse; aphrodisiac: as, venereous drugs.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective obsolete Venereal; exciting lust; aphrodisiac.
  • adjective rare Lustful; lascivious; libidinous.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective obsolete venereal; exciting lust; aphrodisiac
  • adjective obsolete lustful; lascivious; libidinous

Etymologies

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Latin venereus.

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Examples

  • It shall not bee needfull to speake much of the profit, which will ensue by the fit administration of it in the inveterat venereous

    Spadacrene Anglica The English Spa Fountain Edmund Deane

  • _Berenice_ did neuer vow in the venereous Temple for her _Tholomaus_, nor _Conus_ the Mathematrician did euer beholde the like placed in the

    Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna

  • But the ingenious Mr. Lisle, in his book on husbandry, carries it much farther; for he says that the loss of those insignia alone has sometimes a strange effect on the ability itself: he had a boar so fierce and venereous, that, to prevent mischief, orders were given for his tusks to be broken off.

    The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 2 Gilbert White 1756

  • III), without protest, "some are of opinion, that to see a woman naked, is able of itself to alter his affection; and it is worthy of consideration, saith _Montaigne_, the Frenchman, in his Essays, that the skilfullest masters of amorous dalliance appoint for a remedy of venereous passions, a full survey of the body."

    Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society Havelock Ellis 1899

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