venereal

Adjective

venereal (not comparable)

1. Of or relating to the genitals or sexual intercourse.
   • Wouldſt thou not haue ſome Bulchin from the herd / To phyſicke thee of this venereall itch?1637, Tho[mas] Heywood, “Ivpiter and Io”, in Pleasant Dialogues and Dramma’s, Selected out of Lucian, Erasmus, Textor, Ovid, &c. […], London: […] R. O[ulton] for R. H[earne], and are to be sold by...
   • [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; [...]1648, Alexander Ross, chapter XI, in Mystagogvs Poeticvs, or The Muses Interpreter: Explaining the Historicall Mysteries, and Mysticall Histories of the Ancient Greek and Latine Poets. […], 2nd...

   Synonyms:

   aphroditic, Cytherean

2. Of a disease: sexually transmitted; of or relating to, or adapted to the cure of, a venereal disease.
   • a venereal medicine
   • [...] I like not his countenance; I am afraid he labours of the venereall murre.1597, Don Richardo de Medico Campo [pseudonym; Richard Lichfield], The Trimming of Thomas Nashe Gentleman, London: […] [Edward Allde] for Philip Scarlet, →OCLC; republished as J[ohn] P[ayne]...

   Antonyms:

   nonvenereal

3. (obsolete) Pertaining to the astrological influence of the planet Venus; lascivious, lustful.
   • The Venereall, are the delitious, laſcivious, mild, kinde, pleaſant, and tame; as the Calfe, cony, dog, goat, and ſcinck.1661, Robert Lovell, “Isagoge Zoologicomineralogica. Or An Introduction to the History of Animals and Minerals, or Panzoographie, and Pammineralogie.”, in ΠΑΝΖΩΟΡΥΚΤΟΛΟΓΙΑ [PANZŌORYKTOLOGIA]. Sive...

   Synonyms:

   libidinous, lusty, venereous, ablaze, amorous, aroused, buckish, concupiscent, corny, desirous

4. (obsolete) Of or relating to copper (formerly called Venus by alchemists).
   • When after their beaſtly ſport and pleaſure Mounſieur Libid[inoſo] heat of luſt was ſomewhat aſſwaged, and ready to goe, féeling his pocket for a venereall remuneration [i.e., a copper coin] finds nothing but a Teſter, or at leaſt ſo little, that it was not ſufficient to pleaſe dame Pleaſure for...1602, S[amuel] R[owlands], “How a Citizen was Serued by a Curtizan”, in Greenes Ghost Havnting Conie-catchers. […], London: Printed [by Peter Short?] for R[oger] Iackson, and I. North, […], →OCLC...