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E R M S _ o f _ V E N E R Y ‡
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"terms of the hunt", from O. Fr. venerie,
from L. venari "to hunt", also "terms of sexual
gratification, terms to get off on", from M. L. veneria
"sexual
intercourse", from L. venus (gen. veneris)
"sexual love, sexual desire".
The invention of obscure and whimsical venereal terms
(constituent-object-specific
collective nouns, &c.) is a venerated pass-time (and veritable
disease!) of the educated leisure class, which delights in elitist
esoterica, and which cultivates in itself an appreciation of the finer
masturbatory pleasures.
Now you too can participate in this onomathetic tradition, and enjoy
the power of naming, which is the power of God, which is the ultimate
power of the conscious univers. Below you will find several objects
listed with their terms of venerie, as well as examples of usage.
Included are group name, adjectif, and object-specific meat-name
(carnonym).
For example, consider the object cow.
A group of
cows is a herd. The
adjectif meaning "of, pertaining to, or resembling a cow" is rendered bovine,
and the meat of a cow we call beef.
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| Object |
Group Name |
Adjectif
(of, pertaining to, resembling) |
Carnonym |
| angel |
choir, host |
terrible
|
aether |
| ape |
shrewdness |
simian
|
singe |
| bee |
hive, swarm |
apian
|
— |
| beauty |
bevy |
golden
|
symmetry |
| boar |
sounder |
singular
|
solitaire |
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She attempted to pay with a satchel of singular
tusks.
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| chicken |
flock |
polite
|
poultry |
| cow |
herd |
bovine
|
beef |
| delusion |
— |
—
|
— |
| egg |
carton |
oval
|
— |
| experience |
simulation |
symptomatic
|
the subject |
| eye |
— |
ocular
|
— |
| eye, all-seeing |
— |
omniscient
|
Providence |
| god |
pantheon |
divine
|
— |
| God, the one true |
— |
jealous
|
fullness |
| horse (wild) |
band |
equine
|
equitry |
| horse (domesticated) |
team |
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Never display appropriate
behavior before an impolite
god. |
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lacuna
|
concentration |
gnomine
|
hunger |
| lark |
exaltation |
—
|
— |
| librarian |
index |
biblian
|
quietude |
| man |
— |
—
|
— |
| murder |
crow |
Cainish
|
husk |
| paranoiac |
— |
—
|
— |
| personality |
disintegration |
idiosyncratic
|
haircut |
raven
|
unkindness |
corvic
|
— |
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| Mary
look'd upon the Cainish
scene with horror and an
odd wonder, but
soon remember'd her original purpose in coming to Redfield Library and
left the husk, making
her way through the dense kindness
in search of
the librarian or at least, she quiverthinking, some trace of her
quietude.
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ringtone
|
— |
—
|
— |
saint
|
canon |
holy
|
self-contempt |
stranger
|
kindness |
uncanny
|
strange-fruit |
| univers (wild) |
conspiracy |
impolite
|
moment |
| univers (domesticated) |
bulk |
appropriate
|
inevitability |
| wilderness |
— |
—
|
— |
| woman |
— |
—
|
— |
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Glas sat in jealous
meditation, unaware
that the Redfield index
had made him their object
of venery. Too great
a concentration lay in
his precognitive impressions
recently, leaving his
psychic field-of-vision rather motheaten.
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