ppl. a. [f. VENOM sb. or v. Cf. ENVENOMED ppl. a.]

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  1.  Of reptiles, insects, etc.: Endowed with venom; = VENOMOUS a. 3.

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1382.  Wyclif, Wisdom xvi. 10. Thi sonus forsothe, nouther the teth of dragounes, ne of venymed thingus ouercamen.

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1445.  in Anglia, XXVIII. 269. She [Lechery] misshapith som bodies More cruelly than circes herbis, which venemyd be with poysoun.

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1552.  Huloet, Venemed, infectus, intoxicatus.

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1587.  Mascall, Govt. Cattle, Oxen (1627), 15. Against the venomed tongue of a beast, and also his body.

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1592.  Breton, Pilgrim. Paradise, Wks. (Grosart), I. 8/2. A wood … Where Snakes, and Adders, and such venumed things, Had slaine a number, with their cruell stinges.

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1607.  Topsell, Four-f. Beasts, 26. The liver of an asse burnt, driueth away venomed things.

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1697.  Dryden, Virg. Georg., III. 629. To drive the Viper’s Brood, and all the venom’d Race.

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1794.  Mathias, Purs. Lit. (1798), 157. And venon’d insects cluster round the tomb.

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a. 1806.  Horsley, Serm. (1816), IV. 35. The natural advantages of man over the venom’d reptile.

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  2.  Covered, charged, imbued, impregnated or smeared with venom; full of venom; poisoned, poisonous; = VENOMOUS a. 5.

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1402[?].  Quixley, Ball., iii., in Yorks. Arch. Jrnl. (1908), XX. 44. Hercules Of a venymed schert was foul deseyue And brent hym self.

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1540.  Hyrde, trans. Vives’ Instr. Chr. Wom., II. iv. 69. Her husband in warre against the Syrians had catched a great wounde in his arme with a venomed sworde.

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1555.  Eden, Decades (Arb.), 116. Theyr weapons are nother bowes nor venemed arrowes.

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a. 1604.  Hanmer, Chron. Ireland (1809), 103. A Speare, whose head was venomed.

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1631.  P. Fletcher, Piscatory Eclog., IV. xvii. The fish their life and death together drink, And dead pollute the seas with venom’d stink.

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1634.  Milton, Comus, 916. This marble venom’d seat Smear’d with gumms of glutenous heat.

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1700.  Dryden, Ovid’s Met., XV. 360. With venom’d Grinders you corrupt your Meat.

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1746.  Francis, trans. Horace, Sat., I. viii. 33. They, who turn poor people’s brains With venom’d drugs and magic lay.

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1757.  W. Wilkie, Epigoniad, VII. 210. The venom’d garment hiss’d; its touch the fires Avoiding.

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1824.  in Spirit Pub. Jrnls. (1825), 308. Though he often sting me with a dart, Venomed and barbed.

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a. 1839.  Praed, Poems (1864), II. 20. Beneath their venomed breath Life wears the pallid hue of death.

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1882.  Miss Braddon, Mt. Royal, II. ix. 168. He had aimed many a venomed arrow at her breast.

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  b.  Of a wound.

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a. 1425.  trans. Arderne’s Treat. Fistula, etc., 79. Also vitriol combuste be itself or with salt combuste yputte vpon a venemyd wonde draweþ þe venym fro byneþ vnto aboue.

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1597.  A. M., trans. Guillemeau’s Fr. Chirurg., 2/2. Some woundes are of a worser nature, as beinge venoumede, rebellious and entermingled with some badde accidentes.

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1805.  Scott, Last Minstrel, VI. ix. The venom’d wound … Long after rued that bodkin’s point.

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1870.  Byrant, Iliad, II. I. 71. A venomed wound Made by a serpent’s fangs.

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  c.  Of a bite, sting, etc. Also fig.

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1602.  Marston, Ant. & Mel., IV. Wks. 1856, I. 53. We have breasts of proofe Gainst all the venom’d stings of misery.

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1697.  Dryden, Virg. Georg., II. 522. The greedy Flocks; Their venom’d Bite, and Scars indented on the Stocks.

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1765.  Goldsm., New Simile, 48. The serpents round about it twin’d, Denote the rage with which he writes, His frothy slaver, venom’d bites.

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1812.  S. Rogers, Ep. to Friend, 4. When … thy curious mind Has class’d the insect-tribes of human-kind, Each with its busy hum…. Its subtle web-work, or its venom’d sting.

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1822.  Jodrell, Persian Heroine, II. ii. 758. How sharp thy venom’d sting is, O Remorse!

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1903.  Bridges, Wintry Delights, 377. All the venom’d stings And dread sharpnesses of fury.

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  3.  fig. Imbued with some virulent or malevolent quality; harmful or injurious in some way; noxious; = ENVENOMED ppl. a. 2.

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c. 1375.  Sc. Leg. Saints, I. (Katherine), 222. Gyf þou had mycht, me think þu wald with venemyt slycht, tak ws in gyrne dissatfully.

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1382.  Wyclif, Josh., Prol. To reproue with venymyd tonge.

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1435.  Misyn, Fire of Love, 90. So þat non erthly þinge nor odir of venemyd swelnes in qwhilk þa suld haue luste þa take.

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1602.  Marston, Ant. & Mel., I. Wks. 1856, I. 11. Till their soules burst with venom’d arrogance.

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1656.  Earl Monm., trans. Boccalini’s Advts. fr. Parnass., I. xxx. (1674), 34. [They] appease the minds of incenst Princes, and the hearts of venomed people.

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1718.  Prior, Solomon, III. 206. The Venom’d Tongue injurious to his Fame.

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1726.  Pope, Odyss., XIX. 115. Him, my guest, thy venom’d rage hath stung.

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1821.  Shelley, Epipsych., 256. One, whose voice was venomed melody.

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1859.  Tennyson, Merlin & V., 170.

        She play’d about with slight and sprightly talk,
And vivid smiles, and faintly-venom’d points
Of slander.

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1865.  Spectator, 14 Oct., 1133/2. The kind of scribe who speaks of Mr. Delane as having left behind him ‘a venomed trail.’

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  4.  Comb. in venomed-mouthed adj.

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1613.  Shaks., Hen. VIII., I. i. 120. This Butchers Curre is venom’d-mouth’d [Rowe (1709) venome mouth’d; mod. edd. venom-mouth’d], and I Haue not the power to muzzle him.

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  Hence † Venomedness. Obs.–0

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1611.  Cotgr., Venenosité, venomednesse, venomousnesse.

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