ppl. a. [f. prec. + -ED1.]
1. † a. Of a reptile, insect, etc.: Charged with venom (obs.). b. Of a weapon, etc.: Smeared with venom. Of air, food, etc.: Poisoned, tainted. c. Of a wound: Infected with venom, poisoned.
c. 1300. K. Alis., 5436. Her bytt envenymed was.
c. 1330. R. Brunne, Chron. (1810), 228. Envenomed knyfe he bare also priuely.
1393. Gower, Conf., III. 281. As a morcel envenimed.
1577. trans. Bullinger’s Decades (1592), 48. The enuenomed bytinges of the Serpents.
c. 1590. Marlowe, Faustus, vi. C 3 a. Swordes and kniues, Poyson, gunnes, halters, and invenomd steele Are layde before me to dispatch my selfe.
1621. G. Sandys, Ovid’s Met., III. (1626), 47.
| Th’inuenom’d gore, which from his palate bled, | |
| Conuerts the grasse into a duskie red. |
1667. Milton, P. L., II. 543. As when Alcides … felt th’envenom’d robe.
1695. Blackmore, Pr. Arth., VI. 832/182. Some only breath th’ envenom’d Air, and die.
1708. J. Philips, Cyder, II. 63. Happy Iërne, whose most wholsome Air Poisons envenom’d Spiders.
1810. Scott, Lady of L., II. xxxiii. Thy dart Plunged deepest its envenomed smart.
2. fig. Chiefly of temper, feelings, etc.: Virulent, malignant, embittered.
c. 1375. Wyclif, Antecrist, in Todd, Three Treat. (1851), 141. Takyng of temporaltees envenymed.
1647. Clarendon, Hist. Reb. (1702), I. V. 425. The reiterated complaints, and invenom’d repetitions.
1649. Selden, Laws Eng., I. lxix. (1739), 180. The invenomed spirits of the Judges of those days.
1781. Cowper, Truth, 159. Of temper as envenomed as an asp.
1821. Shelley, Prometh. Unb., I. i. 289. Till thine Infinity shall be A robe of envenomed agony.
1879. Froude, Cæsar, xix. 331. They at least had no sympathy with such envenomed animosities.
