'Venery' definitions:
Definition of 'Venery'
From: GCIDE
- Venery \Ven"er*y\, n. [L. Venus, Veneris, the goddess of love.] Sexual love; sexual intercourse; coition. [1913 Webster]
- Contentment, without the pleasure of lawful venery, is continence; of unlawful, chastity. --Grew. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Venery'
From: GCIDE
- Venery \Ven"er*y\, n. [OE. venerie, F. v['e]nerie, fr. OF. vener to hunt, L. venari. See Venison.] The art, act, or practice of hunting; the sports of the chase. "Beasts of venery and fishes." --Sir T. Browne. [1913 Webster]
- I love hunting and venery. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'venery'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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