a. Now rare. Also 5 Sc. wenenows, 7 venenouse. [ad. late L. venēnōs-us, or f. L. venēn-um + -OUS. Cf. F. vénéneus.] = VENENOSE a.
c. 1425. Wyntoun, Cron., VI. iv. 319. A serpent al vgly,… Fel apperande and wenenows. Ibid., VII. vii. 1353. His mynyster, þat made hym þan serwis, Prewaly put in his chalice Wenenows poysson.
1656. Blount, Glossogr., Venenous, full of poyson or venom.
1661. Lovell, Hist. Anim. & Min., 328. If it exceed it’s turned into the plague, which is a venenouse disease of the heart.
1682. Lond. Gaz., No. 1714/5. That Traiterous, Venenous, Insinuating and Trapaning Association, lately found in the Closet of the Earl of Shaftsbury.
