Now rare or Obs. Also 4 venacyon. [ad. L. vēnātio, f. vēnārī to hunt. So F. vénation († venacion), It. venazione.] The action or occupation of hunting wild animals.
1386. Almanak, 17. In December … þe son es in Capricorn, for Esau by venacyon lost hys fader benyson.
1610. Guillim, Heraldry, IV. xi. (1611), 217. The last of the foresaid Arts wee reckoned to bee Venation, which Plato divideth into three species, Hunting, Hawking and Fishing.
1646. Sir T. Browne, Pseud. Ep., I. viii. 32. There are extant of his in Greeke, foure bookes of Cynegeticks or venation. Ibid., VI. vi. At one venation the King of Siam took four thousand Elephants.
1694. Motteux, Rabelais, V. 249. Some in ferine Yenation take delight.
1832. Fraser’s Mag., VI. 160. What sumphs all the ancients were in venation, notwithstanding their boasted prowess!
