a. Now rare or Obs. [Irreg. ad. L. venēn-um poison.] Poisonous, venomous.
1665. G. Harvey, Adv. agst. Plague, 2. A great ebullition or fermentation ensuing between the Venene Corpuscles and the Vital Spirits. Ibid., 7. The more sulphurous parts … assume a venene nature, which expiring infect and venenate the air.
1694. Salmon, Bate’s Dispens. (1713), 503/1. Which drives away by sweat the malignity of Venene, Pestilential, and Venereal Diseases.
1839. J. Rogers, Antipopopr., vi. § 2. 225. It would leave behind no poisonous or venene particle of matter.
