Meanings
- not comparableOf, pertaining to or involved in hunting or the chase.
Indeed contrary to conventional wisdom (which held that it was the urban bourgeoise who debased true venatorial values
1995, Derek Birley, Playing the Game: Sport and British Society, 1910-45, →ISBN, page 82 more examples
[…] and when he hunted, less from necessity than for amusement, he would be naturally led to vary his venatorial practices.
1840, Delabere Pritchett Blaine, An Encyclopædia of Rural Sports, page 560Contrast these two tribes with their neighbours of the south and west—with the Ugrians of the leveller country and the alluvial soils on the Viatka and Kama, and we see the difference between a life of agriculture and a life of venatorial activity
1854, Richard Owen, Robert Gordon Latham, Edward Smith, William Sweetland Dallas, Orr's Circle of the Sciences, Volume 1, page 323
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Origin
- Latinvēnātōrius“of or pertaining to a hunter or the chase”
- Englishvenatorial
From Latin vēnātōrius (“of or pertaining to a hunter or the chase”), from vēnātor (“hunter”), from vēnor (“hunt, chase”).
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