venerean
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]venerean (comparative more venerean, superlative most venerean)
- (obsolete) Devoted to the offices of Venus, or love; venereal.
- 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “(please specify the story)”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC:
- I am all venerean in feeling
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
References
[edit]- “venerean”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.