Obs. rare. [f. L. Vener-, Venus: see -IST.] One addicted to venery or lust.
1596. Fitz-Geffrey, Sir F. Drake (1881), 27. Cease to eternize in your marble verse The fals of fortune-tossed Venerists.
1623. Cockeram, I. Venerist, a whoremonger.
