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Veneficial
VENEFI'CIAL
,'CIOUS,Adj.
Definition 2024
veneficial
veneficial
English
Adjective
veneficial (comparative more veneficial, superlative most veneficial)
- (dated, now rare) Poisonous or poisoning; pertaining to poison; malignant, sorcerous.
- 1658, Sir Thomas Browne, The Garden of Cyrus (Folio Society 2007), page 213:
- Why the Goddesses sit commonly crosse-legged in ancient draughts, Since Juno is described in the same as a veneficial posture to hinder the birth of Hercules?
- 1963, Rossell Hope Robbins, The encyclopedia of witchcraft and demonology, page 545:
- […]
- 3. The chanting, canting, or calculating witch, who works by signs and numbers.
- 4. The veneficial or poisoning witch.
- 5. The exorcist or conjuring witch.
- 1964, in Nature and Life in Southeast Asia, volumes 3-4, page 393:
- […] utilization of parasitic and predacious insects for the control of crop insect pests. It is expected to find in the tropics many veneficial insects […]
- 1658, Sir Thomas Browne, The Garden of Cyrus (Folio Society 2007), page 213: