Meaning

Of or relating to the genitals or sexual intercourse..

Definitions by Sense

1. Of or relating to the genitals or sexual intercourse.
2. Of a disease: sexually transmitted; of or relating to, or adapted to the cure of, a venereal disease.
3. (astrology, obsolete) Pertaining to the astrological influence of the planet Venus; lascivious, lustful.
4. (chemistry, obsolete) Of or relating to copper (formerly called Venus by alchemists).

Example Sentences

Wouldſt thou not haue ſome Bulchin from the herd / To phyſicke thee of this venereall itch?

[B]ecauſe ſuch hot temperaments are prone to Venerie, hence the Poets feigned, that Mars lay with Venus; and withall to ſhew, how much ſouldiers are given to Venereall luſts; [...]

Then ſwoll'n with pride into the ſnare I fell / Of fair, fallacious looks, venereal trains, / Softn'd with pleaſure and voluptuous life; [...]

And so, while husbands are worshiping at their boyhood shrines, being the lawyers, merchants, or masterminds their parents wanted them to be, their wives, even after fourteen years of marriage and two fine children produced and raised, are still on the search for love - which can come to them only from the centaurs, sileni, satyrs, and other concupiscent incubi of the rout of Pan [...] as in our popular, vanilla-frosted temples of the venereal goddess, under the make-up of the latest heroes of the screen.

a venereal medicine

[...] I like not his countenance; I am afraid he labours of the venereall murre.

[...] Who can imagine that in a venereall ulcer, wherein there is corruption of the bone, there ſhould be two ſorts of ulcers ſpecifically differing? to wit, one in the fleſhy part, and another in the bone, the ſame humor cauſing both.

Venereal diseases were responsible for four deaths and 141 final invalidings, [...]

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• venereall

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