venereal🔊

Of or relating to the genitals or sexual intercourse.

📑 Synonyms: aphroditic Cytherean

💬 Quotations

Then swoll'n with pride into the snare I fell / Of fair, fallacious looks, venereal trains, / Softn'd with pleasure and voluptuous life; [...]

John Milton, Paradise Regained

And so, while husbands are worshiping at their boyhood shrines, being the lawyers, merchants, or masterminds their parents wanted them to be, their wives, even after fourteen years of marriage and two fine children produced and raised, are still on the search for love - which can come to them only from the centaurs, sileni, satyrs, and other concupiscent incubi of the rout of Pan [...] as in our popular, vanilla-frosted temples of the venereal goddess, under the make-up of the latest heroes of the screen.

Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces

Of a disease: sexually transmitted; of or relating to, or adapted to the cure of, a venereal disease.

(astrology, obsolete) Pertaining to the astrological influence of the planet Venus; lascivious, lustful.

📑 Synonyms: libidinous lusty venereous

(chemistry, obsolete) Of or relating to copper (formerly called Venus by alchemists).

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