venery

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Etymology 1

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 Miller, for Edw Dod and Nath 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

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 Miller, for Edw Dod and Nath 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 Wingrave, successor to Mr. 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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