venene

English

Etymology

From Latin venēnum (“juice; venom”). Doublet of venin and venom.

Noun

venene (countable and uncountable, plural venenes)

1. (obsolete) Synonym of venom.

Derived terms

• antivenene

Adjective

venene

1. (obsolete) Venenose, venenous, venomous, poisonous.
   • 1699, William Salmon, Ars chirurgica, page 506:

     […] As first, if the Humor is malign, venene, or pestilential, wherein if Nature protudes the Morbick-matter outwards, we ought not to drive it back again to the internal parts; […]

   • 1720, George Bate, Pharmacopœia Bateana: or, Bate's dispensatory […] , page 339:

     a most salubrious Remedy, which Effects it demonstrates by powerfully provoking Sweat in all pestilential and venene, or malign Disaffections.

   • 1870, Samuel Klinefelter Hoshour, Letters to Squire Pedant in the East, page 53:

     […] and imparting aliture [nourishment] to myriads of venene and umbelliferous […] plants.

References

• “venene”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Esperanto

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /veˈnene/
• Hyphenation: ve‧ne‧ne

Adverb

venene

1. venomously, poisonously

Related terms

• venena

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

venene m

1. definite plural of vene

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• venane (of both)

Noun

venene m pl

1. definite plural of ven

venene f or m

1. definite feminine plural of vene