a. (and sb.). Obs. Also 6 Sc. venereane. [f. as prec. + -AN.]
1. Connected or associated with, relating or pertaining to, Venus or her service.
c. 1550. Rolland, Crt. Venus, I. 223. For hir sake sum sang venereane I wald thow sang. Ibid., III. 758. Thay thre was of the Court venereane.
1597. Bp. Hall, Sat., I. ix. His statue trimd with the venerean tree.
1653. Gataker, Vind. Annot. Jer., 64. Oh but when, trow we, may some loose people say, will these Halcyon, or Venerean dayes rather appeer?
2. Of or pertaining to sexual desire or intercourse.
c. 1550. Rolland, Crt. Venus, III. 720. Thamar and Raab … And Barsabe … War all of sport Ladeis venereane.
1634. Wither, Embl., 71. The scarres they get in their Venerean fights.
c. 1645. Howell, Lett. (1650), II. 17. With the assurance of Venerean delights in a far higher degree to succeed after death.
c. 1700. Jane Shore, in Evans, Old Ball. (1784), I. 325. Those with Scythian lad engag’d in several fights, And in the brave Venerean wars did foil advent’rous knights.
b. = VENEREAL a. 2.
1612. Chapman, Widowes T., I. B iv. The Venerean disease, to which they say, he has beene long wedded.
3. Addicted to venereal pleasures. Also as sb., a person of this character.
1612. Chapman, Widowes T., V. I ij b. It will be such a cooler To my Venerean Gentlemans hot liuer.
1631. Mabbe, Celestina, XIV. 156. Just about this time rise … your Venereans and love-sicke soules, such as our master.
