venenate

English

Etymology

Latin venenatus, past participle of venenare (to poison), from venenum (poison, venom).

Pronunciation

  • (verb) IPA(key): /ˈvɛnɪneɪt/
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  • (adjective) IPA(key): /ˈvɛnɪnət/
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Verb

venenate (third-person singular simple present venenates, present participle venenating, simple past and past participle venenated)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To poison; to infect with poison.
    • 1673, Gideon Harvey, A Discourse of the Plague:
      assume a venene nature , which expiring infecd and venenate the Air

Adjective

venenate (comparative more venenate, superlative most venenate)

  1. (obsolete) Poisoned.
    • 1728, J[ohn] Woodward, “[A Catalogue of the Foreign Fossils in the Collection of J. Woodward M.D. [] Part I [].] Lapides Venarum; seu materia lapidea varia in Venis Metallicis aliisque stratorum Saxeorum Fissuris, reperta. Vein-Stones. Sales, Salts.”, in A Catalogue of the Additional English Native Fossils, in the Collection of J. Woodward M.D., tome II, London: [] F[rancis] Fayram, []; J[ohn] Senex, []; and J. Osborn and T[homas] Longman, [], →OCLC, page 22:
      Arſenick, red, [] They give this in Fevers after Calcination, by which means the venenate Parts are carried off.

References

venenate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Esperanto

Adverb

venenate

  1. present adverbial passive participle of veneni

Latin

Adjective

venēnāte

  1. vocative masculine singular of venēnātus
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