venatic

From Latin vēnāticus (“of or pertaining to hunting”), from vēnātus (“hunting, the chase”), from vēnor (“hunt, chase”).

venatic (comparative more venatic, superlative most venatic)

1. Of, pertaining to or involved in hunting.
   • 1863, Cambrian Archaeological Association, Archaeologia cambrensis‎, page 72:

     […] consequently, Lost-withiel, as a compound name, would signify the tented encampment of the stranger, an epithet fairly applicable to the first settlers in that locality, who doubtless migrated thither over-sea, and like most venatic tribes without settled residence, dwelt in tents.

   • 1856, Samuel Klinefelter Hoshour, Letters to Squire Pedant, in the East, page 13:

     Not gyved with connubial relations, I entered upon my migration entirely isolated, with the exception of a canine quadruped whose mordacious, latrant, lusorious, and venatic qualities, are without parity.

   • 2001, Mariane Conchita Ferme, The underneath of things: violence, history, and the everyday in Sierra Leone‎, →ISBN, page 16:

     This is the hunter's "venatic lore" linked to the domain of belief and making believe […]

   • 2008 [1899], Alexander Del Mar, The History of Money in America: From the Earliest Times to the Establishment of the Constitution‎, →ISBN, page 37:

     Races belonging to a scarcely lower civilization than the Aztecs, certainly far more advanced than the venatic tribes of the North and East, must have occupied at some remote time and for a lengthy period, a considerable portion of the Mississippi Basin

• (of or pertaining to hunting): venatorial

• venatical
• venatically

• venation
• venatious
• venatorial
• venery