venery – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
venery
n.
sexual intercourse; pursuit of sexual activity; hunting (Archaic)
Venery
Venery has two unrelated meanings, both from Latin:
- A historical term for hunting game, see medieval hunting (from venerie in Middle English and Middle French: "hunting", from Latin venor: "I hunt".)
- The practice or pursuit of sexual pleasure, or the indulgence of sexual desire, see human sexuality (from the Mediaeval Latin veneria, from the name of Venus, genitive Veneris)
Venery
(n.)
The art, act, or practice of hunting; the sports of the chase.
(n.)
Sexual love; sexual intercourse; coition.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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venery
Synonyms and related words:
act of love, adultery, aphrodisia, ass, balling, beasts of venery, big game, carnal knowledge, chase, chevy, chivy, climax, cohabitation, coition, coitus, coitus interruptus, commerce, congress, connection, copula, copulation, coupling, coursing, cynegetics, debauchery, debauchment, diddling, dissipation, dissoluteness, falconry, fastness, fornication, fox hunting, gallantry, game, gunning, hawking, hunt, hunting, intercourse, intimacy, kill, libertinage, libertinism, license, licentiousness, lovemaking, making it with, marital relations, marriage act, mating, meat, onanism, orgasm, ovum, pareunia, prey, procreation, profligacy, quarry, rakishness, relations, screwing, sex, sex act, sexual climax, sexual commerce, sexual congress, sexual intercourse, sexual relations, sexual union, shikar, shooting, sleeping with, sperm, sport, sporting, stalking, still hunt, the hunted, unbridledness, victim, wenching, whoring, wildness
Source: Moby Thesaurus, which is part of the
Moby Project created by Grady Ward. In 1996 Grady Ward placed this thesaurus in the public domain.
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