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veneries

veneries is the plural of venery.

Meaning of venery

Noun (1)

venery (usually uncountable, plural veneries)

  1. (usually) The hunting of wild animals.
    • There are extant of his in Greek, four books of Cynegeticks or venation, five of Halieuticks or piſcation, commented and publiſhed by Ritterhuſius; wherein deſcribing beaſts of venery and fiſhes[…]1650, Thomas Browne, “A brief enumeration of Authors”, in Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC, 1st book, page 24
  2. (usually) Game animals.

Noun (2)

venery (countable and uncountable, plural veneries)

  1. The pursuit of sexual indulgence or pleasure.
    • […] Opium it ſelf is conceived to extimulate unto venery, and for that intent is ſometimes uſed by Turkes, Perſians, and moſt orientall Nations; […]1650, Thomas Browne, “Of the Mandrakes of Leah”, in Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC, 7th book, page 301

Questions about veneries

What is veneries the plural of?
Veneries is the plural of venery.

Words near veneries in the dictionary

  1. venerial
  2. Venerian
  3. Venerians
  4. venerid
  5. venerids
  6. veneries
  7. veneriform
  8. venerious
  9. veneroid
  10. veneroids
  11. venerological

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