enˈvenomed, ppl. a.
[f. prec. + -ed1.]
1. † a. Of a reptile, insect, etc.: Charged with venom (obs.). b. Of a weapon, etc.: Smeared with venom. Of air, food, etc.: Poisoned, tainted. c. Of a wound: Infected with venom, poisoned.
| c 1300 K. Alis. 5436 Her bytt envenymed was. c 1330 R. Brunne Chron. (1810) 228 Envenomed knyfe he bare also priuely. 1393 Gower Conf. III. 281 As a morcel envenimed. 1577 tr. Bullinger's Decades (1592) 48 The enuenomed bytinges of the Serpents. c 1590 Marlowe Faust. vi. 22 Halters and envenom'd steel Are laid before me. 1621 G. Sandys Ovid's Met. iii. 47 Th' inuenom'd gore, which from his palate bled. 1667 Milton P.L. ii. 543 As when Alcides..felt th'envenom'd robe. 1695 Blackmore Pr. Arth. vi. 832 Some only breath th' envenom'd Air, and die. 1708 J. Philips Cyder ii. 63 Happy Iërne, whose most wholsome Air Poisons envenom'd spiders. 1810 Scott Lady of L. ii. xxxiii, Thy dart Plunged deepest its envenomed smart. |
2. fig. Chiefly of temper, feelings, etc.: Virulent, malignant, embittered.
| c 1375 Wyclif Antecrist in Todd Three Treat. (1851) 141 Takyng of temporaltees envenymed. 1647 Clarendon Hist. Reb. (1702) I. v. 425 The reiterated complaints, and invenom'd repetitions. 1649 Selden Laws Eng. i. lxix. (1739) 180 The invenomed spirits of the Judges of those days. 1781 Cowper Truth 159 Of temper as envenomed as an asp. 1821 Shelley Prometh. Unb. i. i. 289 Till thine Infinity shall be A robe of envenomed agony. 1879 Froude Cæsar xix. 331 They at least had no sympathy with such envenomed animosities. |