venenate

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/ˈvɛnɪneɪt//ˈvɛnɪnət/

verb

To poison; to infect with poison.

OriginLatin venenatus →
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Meanings

verbvenenate (third-person singular simple present venenates, present participle venenating, simple past and past participle venenated)

present singular third person venenates · participle present venenating · participle past venenated · past venenated

  1. obsoletetransitiveTo poison; to infect with poison.

    assume a venene nature , which expiring infecd and venenate the Air

    1673, Gideon Harvey, A Discourse of the Plague
adjectivevenenate (comparative more venenate, superlative most venenate)

comparative more venenate · superlative most venenate

  1. obsoletePoisoned.

    Arſenick, red, […] They give this in Fevers after Calcination, by which means the venenate Parts are carried off.

    1728, J[ohn] Woodward, “[A Catalogue of the Foreign Fossils in the Collection of J. Woodward M.D. […] Part I […].] Lapides Venarum; seu materia lapidea varia in Venis Metallicis aliisque stratorum Saxeorum Fissuris, reperta. Vein-Stones. Sales, Salts.”, in A Catalogue of the Additional English Native Fossils, in the Collection of J. Woodward M.D., tome II, London: […] F[rancis] Fayram, […]; J[ohn] Senex, […]; and J. Osborn and T[homas] Longman, […], →OCLC, page 22

Origin

  1. Latinvenenatus
  2. Englishvenenate

From Latin venenatus, past participle of venenare (“to poison”), from venenum (“poison, venom”).

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Chicago

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