English

Adjective

venatic ‎(comparative more venatic, superlative most venatic)

1. Of, pertaining to or involved in hunting.
   • 1863, Cambrian Archaeological Association, Archaeologia cambrensis, page 72:

     […] consequently, Lost-withiel, as a compound name, would signify the tented encampment of the stranger, an epithet fairly applicable to the first settlers in that locality, who doubtless migrated thither over-sea, and like most venatic tribes without settled residence, dwelt in tents.

   • 2001, Mariane Conchita Ferme, The underneath of things: violence, history, and the everyday in Sierra Leone, ISBN 0520225430, page 16:

     This is the hunter's "venatic lore" linked to the domain of belief and making believe […]

   • 2008, Alexander Del Mar, The History of Money in America: From the Earliest Times to the ..., ISBN 055470756X, page 37:

     Races belonging to a scarcely lower civilization than the Aztecs, certainly far more advanced than the venatic tribes of the North and East, must have occupied at some remote time and for a lengthy period, a considerable portion of the Mississippi Basin

Synonyms

• (of or pertaining to hunting): venatorial

Derived terms

• venatical
• venatically

Related terms

• venation
• venatious
• venatorial
• venery

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