venery

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Etymology 1

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From Middle English venerie, borrowed from Middle French venerie, from Old French venerie (hunting), derived from vener, from Latin vēnor (I hunt).

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venery (usually uncountable, plural veneries)

  1. The hunting of wild animals.
    • 1650, Thomas Browne, “A brief enumeration of Authors”, in Pseudodoxia Epidemica: [], 2nd edition, London: [] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, [], →OCLC, 1st book, page 24:
      There are extant of his in Greek, four books of Cynegeticks or venation, five of Halieuticks or piſcation, commented and publiſhed by Ritterhuſius; wherein deſcribing beaſts of venery and fiſhes []
    • 1963, Thomas Pynchon, V.:
      But soon enough he’d wake up the second, real time, to make again the tiresome discovery that it hadn’t really ever stopped being the same simple-minded, literal pursuit; V. ambiguously a beast of venery, chased like the hart, hind or hare, chased like an obsolete, or bizarre, or forbidden form of sexual delight.
  2. Game animals.
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Etymology 2

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From Middle English venery, venerie, venerye, borrowed from Medieval Latin veneria, from venus (love).

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venery (countable and uncountable, plural veneries)

  1. The pursuit of sexual indulgence or pleasure.
    • 1650, Thomas Browne, “Of the Mandrakes of Leah”, in Pseudodoxia Epidemica: [], 2nd edition, London: [] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, [], →OCLC, 7th book, page 301:
      [] Opium it ſelf is conceived to extimulate unto venery, and for that intent is ſometimes uſed by Turkes, Perſians, and moſt orientall Nations; []
    • 1791, Oliver Goldsmith, “Of Venemous Serpents in General”, in An History of the Earth, and Animated Nature. [], new edition, volume VII, London: [] F[rancis] Wingrave, successor to Mr. [John] Nourse, [], →OCLC, page 191:
      [T]he ſalt of vipers is alſo thought to exceed any other animal ſalt vvhatever, in giving vigour to the languid circulation, and prompting to venery.
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