10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «VENEFICOUS»
Discover the use of
veneficous in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
veneficous and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal
... stars and the moon ; And the influence of their clear aspect, &c And medicinal
plants From a place entirely veneficous, Sec And the honey, and the trefoil, And
the intoxicating mead-horns, The boon of the Druids." — Coduir Taliesin, pp. 37-8
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2
The American Monthly Magazine
It immediately follows upon drinking a cup of beer, prepared by one who is skilled
in such veneficous arts, and who, at the same time uses certain words ; provided
always that he who drinks it, is a party consenting. From that time forth, he has ...
3
Nimrod: A Discourse on Certain Passages of History and Fable
f a irsfi r s <p av o i <r i wkXspevov, and the innermost of these enclosures was a
Grove or Garden, stored with all manner of
veneficous plants and trees, and
especially the daphne or bay tree of Priam's penetralia ; 'Ev 5= o.<piv irvparw
pvyv ...
4
The ancient English romance of William and the werwolf: ed. ...
It immediately follows upon drinking a cup of beer, prepared by one who is skilled
in such veneficous arts, and who at the same time uses certain words ; provided
always, that he who drinks it is a party consenting. From that time forth, he has ...
Algeron Herbert, Frederic Madden, 1832
5
The Dublin university magazine
... Placid, pleasing vervain; And the understanding of the fixed stars ; And the
virtue of the stars and the moon ; And the influence of their clear aspect, ic And
medicinal plants From a place, entirely veneficous, &c And the honey, and the
trefoil, ...
University magazine, 1850
6
The ancient English romance of William and the werwolf ed. ...
It immediately follows upon drinking a cup of beer, prepared by one who is skilled
in such veneficous arts, and who at the same time uses certain words ; provided
always, that he who drinks it is a party consenting. From that time forth, he has ...
Guillaume (de Palerne.), sir Frederic Madden, 1832
7
Don Renato: An Ideal Content
... lively (vegetus) veneficous adj. poisonous (veneficus) venete adj. sea-blue,
Venetian-blue (venetus) venustous adj. lovely (venustus) venusty subst.
loveliness (venustas) vepallid adj. very pale (vepallidus) verberate verb to beat (
verbero)
Frederick William Rolfe, 2006
Our librettists and dramatists need themes, our novelists cannot do without "
veneficous Bacchantes." If Lucrezia Borgia was not a " poison-bearing Maenad,"
somebody else was. Perhaps that other has even annexed the reputation for
virtue ...
9
Nagaland, a contemporary ethnography
Sickness, in the ethnomedical profile, is believed to be caused by evil powers;
and the gate, bamboo spikes, lucky stones, kipuchi, the tree casting shadow on
the gate, and the Kharukro are supposed to combat and exterminate the
veneficous ...
... which defiles his pages only in a quotation from a rival . For 'poison' he used '
venom'; for 'poisoned', 'envenomed'; for ' poisonous ','veneficous'; and for '
poisoning', 'venenation'. These obsolete forms will be found in any reliable
dictionary, ...
