venatic

comparative more venatic · superlative most venatic

1. Of, pertaining to or involved in hunting.

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

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

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   […] 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.

   1863, Cambrian Archaeological Association, Archaeologia cambrensis, page 72

   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.

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

   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

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

   Synonyms: venatorial