Definition of "veneries" [veneries]

• Plural form of venery. (noun)

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• "His power and extent is very large, [4630] and in that twofold division of love, φιλεῖν and ἐρᾶν [4631] those two veneries which Plato and some other make mention of it is most eminent, and κατ 'ἐξοχὴν called Venus, as I have said, or love itself."
• "I could believe that Spirits use with man the act of carnality, and that in both sexes; I conceive they may assume, steal, or contrive a body, wherein there may be action enough to content decrepit lust, or passion to satisfie more active veneries; [67] yet, in both, without a possibility of generation: and therefore that opinion that Antichrist should be born of the"
• "To Nimrod, his tusks; to Lothario, his photographs; to me (who cut no dash in either of those veneries, and am not greedy enough to preserve menus nor silly enough to preserve press-cuttings, but do delight in travelling from place to place), my railway-labels."