a. Obs. [f. VENOM sb.] Venomous, poisonous.
1544. Exhort., in Priv. Prayers (1851), 569. We must beware … of that venomful poison of all good prayer, that is to say, when our mouth prayeth, and our hearts pray not.
1612. R. Fenton, Usury, 54. Verily they discerned some malignant and venomfull qualitie in vsurie.
