Venerious

Quick meaning: Venerious is an adjective meaning (obsolete) Venereal.

Meaning

(obsolete) Venereal.

Example Sentences

But vnto man, and to diuers other land Creatures, the eating of much ſalt is very contagious, becauſe it maketh the bloud ſalt, and it breedes barenneſſe to mans bodie by the extreame ſiccitie thereof, and it maketh our ſeed ornature too ſharpe, but the ſame being moderatly taken, is very ſtirring in our bodies, and prouoketh them to venerious actes, whereby it helpeth to the generation of mankind.

Which is, hee that preſumes with his alldaring quill to put forth lewde pamphlets, amorous loue ſongs, and wanton elegies, to ſet vp a venerious ſchoole: bluring and ſtaining the pure vnſpotted name of the muſes with his impure blemiſhes of art: let him ſing a foole a maſſe, and tell me that his life is vntainted, though his lines bee lecherous: hee is a meere pandar, a baud to all villany: the veſſell beein vented and broch’t, tels the taſte what liquor iſlueth from it.

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