Obs. [ad. med.L. Venerāl-is, f. Vener-, Venus VENUS1]

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  1.  = VENEREAL a. 1.

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1591.  Sparry, trans. Cattan’s Geomancie, 105. This figure is ill, except it be for warre or actes venerall.

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1624.  Heywood, Gunaik., IX. 453. By their unanimous consent they vowed perpetual abstinence from all venerall actions.

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  2.  = VENEREOUS a. 1 and 3.

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1623.  Cockeram, I. Venerall, giuen to fleshly wantonnesse.

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1651.  J. F[reake], Agrippa’s Occ. Philos., 97. They that will gather a Venerall, Mercuriall, or Lunary Hearb must look toward the West.

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  3.  = VENEREAL a. 2.

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1651.  French, Distill., iii. 75. This Oil so purifies the bloud,… that it cures all distempers that arise from the impurity thereof, as the venerall disease.

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1698.  G. Thomas, Pensilvania, 19. Sarsaparilla, so much us’d in Diet-Drinks for the Cure of the Veneral Disease.

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1803.  Med. Jrnl., IX. 556. A more recent case of a true elephantiasis, that followed a veneral infection, is added.

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