1Relating to sexual desire or sexual intercourse; venereal.
amber and civet are thought to further venereous appetite
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Dissolute Persons are wont to prepare themselves for venereous Acts by Bathing.
Venereous ulcers which are upon the yard are hard to cure.
Let the Nurse be sure to observe a Diet that is most proper for her milk, and may not corrupt it; and also to avoid all passions and venereous actions.
There are some whose venereous and alcoholic cravings and whose craving for tobacco are very pronounced.
This signifies the gratification of venereous desires.
Heat and moisture are the parents of venereous desires.
There is no kind (man only excepted) that is so venereous and nimble in generation as is a Horse or Mare.
For many are less venereous, and not so hot, and do not with any great desire use copulation, but rather decline from it.
The Muscovites are extremely venereous.
We have seen what a comparable operation did to Mr Lisle's venereous boar.
Lust consumes the life of the of the venereous man.
1.2Tending to arose sexual desire or excitement.
venereous herbs and fruits
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As for thine eyes, shut them and turne them aside from these venereous Venetian obiects.
None of these plants was literally aphrodisiac – what Elizabethan herbalists called 'venereous' – but their seductive scents were more likely to stir Titania up than 'lull' her.
The book was venomous, and, indeed, venereous, and its narrative must be untrue, for no man could sustain all those "amours."
Their judgment was overclouded by some venereous fumes and vapors.