Obs. [See prec. and -ATION.] The action of, or a means of, poisoning.
1646. Sir T. Browne, Pseud. Ep., III. vii. 119. That this venenation shooteth from the eye, and that this way a Basilisk may empoyson,… it is not a thing impossible. Ibid., VII. xix. 385. For, surely there are subtiler venenations, such as will invisibly destroy.
