Syn. — Awe; reverence; respect. See Reverence.
Venerator
(Ven"er*a`tor) n. [L.] One who venerates. Jer. Taylor
Venereal
(Ve*ne"re*al) a. [L. venereus, venerius, fr. Venus, Veneris, Venus, the goddess of love.
See Venerate.]
1. Of or pertaining to venery, or sexual love; relating to sexual intercourse.
Into the snare I fell
Of fair, fallacious looks, venereal trains,
Softened with pleasure and voluptuous life.
Milton. 2. (Med.) (a) Arising from sexual intercourse; as, a venereal disease; venereal virus or poison. (b)
Adapted to the cure of venereal diseases; as, venereal medicines.
3. Adapted to excite venereal desire; aphrodisiac.
4. Consisting of, or pertaining to, copper, formerly called by chemists Venus. [Obs.] Boyle.
Venereal
(Ve*ne"re*al), n. (Med.) The venereal disease; syphilis.
Venerean
(Ve*ne"re*an) a. [Cf. F. vénérien.] Devoted to the offices of Venus, or love; venereal. [Obs.] "I
am all venerean in feeling." Chaucer.
Venereous
(Ve*ne"re*ous) a. [L. venereus.]
1. Venereal; exciting lust; aphrodisiac. [Obs.]
2. Lustful; lascivious; libidinous. [R.] Derham.
Venerous
(Ven"er*ous) a. Venereous. [Obs.] Burton.
Venery
(Ven"er*y) n. [L. Venus, Veneris, the goddess of love.] Sexual love; sexual intercourse; coition.
Contentment, without the pleasure of lawful venery, is continence; of unlawful, chastity.
Grew. Venery
(Ven"er*y), n. [OE. venerie, F. vénerie, fr. OF. vener to hunt, L. venari. See Venison.] The
art, act, or practice of hunting; the sports of the chase. "Beasts of venery and fishes." Sir T. Browne.
I love hunting and venery.
Chaucer. Venesection
(Ve`ne*sec"tion) n. [NL. venaesectio; L. vena vein + sectio section.] (Med.) The act or
operation of opening a vein for letting blood; bloodletting; phlebotomy.
Venetian
(Ve*ne"tian) a. [Cf. It. Veneziano, L. Venetianus.] Of or pertaining to Venice in Italy.
Venetian blind, a blind for windows, doors, etc., made of thin slats, either fixed at a certain angle in
the shutter, or movable, and in the latter case so disposed as to overlap each other when close, and to
show a series of open spaces for the admission of air and light when in other positions. — Venetian
carpet, an inexpensive carpet, used for passages and stairs, having a woolen warp which conceals
the weft; the pattern is therefore commonly made up of simple stripes. — Venetian chalk, a white
compact or steatite, used for marking on cloth, etc. — Venetian door (Arch.), a door having long,
narrow windows or panes of glass on the sides. — Venetian glass, a kind of glass made by the Venetians,
for decorative purposes, by the combination of pieces of glass of different colors fused together and
wrought into various ornamental patterns. — Venetian red, a brownish red color, prepared from sulphate
of iron; — called also scarlet ocher. — Venetian soap. See Castile soap, under Soap. — Venetian
sumac (Bot.), a South European tree (Rhus Cotinus) which yields the yellow dyewood called fustet; —
