transvenom

present singular third person transvenoms · participle present transvenoming · participle past transvenomed · past transvenomed

1. archaictransitiveTo make venomous.

   […] the main pioneer of that atheistic philosophy, which in France transvenomed the natural thirst of truth into the hydrophobia of a wild and homeless scepticism; […]

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   […] connubial love is the most beatifying passion; and to transvenom this into unkindness, is to open at the very centre of our soul, a source of poison, which, before it exudes to torture others, torments ourselves.

   1829, John Angell James, The Family Monitor, Or a Help to Domestic Happiness, page 55

   How many carry the heart of a savage under the name of a son; and […] towards even their parents transvenom all emotions of filial piety into the wormwood and gall of intense hatred of those to whom they owe their very existence!

   1857, John Angell James, The Young Man's Friend and Guide Through Life to Immortality, page 120