venerean

Compare French vénérien.

venerean (comparative more venerean, superlative most venerean)

1. (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)

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