venomous
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(senseid) Of an animal (specifically a snake) or parts of its body: producing (l) which is usually injected into an enemy or prey by biting or stinging; hence, of a bite or sting: injecting venom.
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(RQ:Spenser Faerie Queene)
(RQ:Shakespeare Antony and Cleopatra) / Come thou mortal vvretch, / VVith thy ſharpe teeth this knot intrinſicate, / Of life at once vntye: Poore venomous Foole, / Be angry, and diſpatch.
(RQ:Walton Compleat Angler)
(RQ:Derham Physico-Theology)
(RQ:Goldsmith History of the Earth)
(RQ:Braddon Haggard)
Of or pertaining to venom.
(RQ:M. R. Mitford Our Village)
Consisting of, or containing or full of, venom or some other poison; hence, harmful to health due to this.
(RQ:Hooker Laws) remayneth at this preſent hovver a part of our Churchliturgie, a memoriall of their fidelitie and zeale, a ſoueraigne preſeruatiue of Gods people from the venemous infection of hereſie.|footer=A figurative use.
(RQ:Camden Holland Britain) was&93; by a certaine Moore vvounded vvith an envenomed ſvvord, and by all the remedies that Phiſitians could deviſe vvas not ſo much eaſed as afflicted: (..) ſhe &91;(w)&93; day by day licked vvith her tongue, and ſucked out the venemous humor vvhich to her vvas a moſt ſvveet liquor. By the vigour and ſtrength vvhereof, or to ſay more truely, by vertue of a vvives louely fidelity ſhe ſo drevv unto her all the ſubſtance of the poiſon, that the vvounds being cloſed, and cicatrixed, hee became perfectly healed, & ſhe caught no harme at all.
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(RQ:Hobbes Leviathan)
(RQ:Browne Hydriotaphia) Some commendably affected Plantations of venemous Vegetables, ſome confined their delights unto ſingle plants, and ''(w)'' ſeemed to dote upon Cabbadge; (..)
(RQ:Watts Hymns)
(RQ:Goldsmith History of the Earth) the fangs that lay before inclining are thus erected; they are ſtruck vvith force into the fleſh of the obnoxious perſon; (..)
(RQ:Shelley Revolt of Islam)
Posing a threat; dangerous, threatening.
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(RQ:Independent) before he unleashed a venomous strike past Patrício|Rui Patricio from 16 yards.
(RQ:Skelton Poetical Works)
(RQ:Shakespeare Titus Andronicus Q1)
(RQ:Browne Religio Medici)
Of a weapon such as an arrow or dart: dosed with venom or poison; envenomed, poisoned.
Harmful, hurtful, injurious; specifically, morally or spiritually harmful; evil, noxious, pernicious.
(RQ:Lyly Euphues) I vvill at large proue, that ther is nothinge in loue more venemous then méeting, vvhich filleth the minde with griefe, and the body vvith diſeaſes: (..)
(RQ:Shakespeare Coriolanus)
(RQ:Camden Holland Britain) King the Conqueror|VVilliam the firſt built a faire Abbay in memorie of Saint ''of Auxerre|German'', vvho happily confuted that venemous Pelagian hæreſie, vvhich often times (as the ſerpent ''Hydra|Hydra'') grevv to an head againe in Britaine.