venomとは意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈvɛnəm/
• 韻: -ɛnəm

名詞

venom (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 venoms)

1. An animal toxin intended for offensive use, a biological poison delivered by bite, sting, etc. to protect an animal or to kill its prey.
   • c. 1610–1611, William Shakespeare, “The VVinters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act II, scene i]:

     […] There may be in the cup
     A spider steep’d, and one may drink, depart,
     And yet partake no venom, for his knowledge
     Is not infected...

   • 1634, John Milton, Arcades in Poems of Mr. John Milton, both English and Latin, London: Humphrey Moseley, Song, p. 54,^[1]

     ...And from the Boughs brush off the evil dew,
     And heal the harms of thwarting thunder blew,
     Or what the cross dire-looking Planet smites,
     Or hurtfull Worm with canker’d venom bites...

   • 1818, [Mary Shelley], Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. […], volume (please specify |volume=I, II, または III), London: […] [Macdonald and Son] for Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones, OCLC 830979744:

     I will watch with the wiliness of a snake, that I may sting with its venom.

   • 1968 August, Truman Capote, interview, Mademoiselle:

     The serious artist […] [is] obsessed by his material; it’s like a venom working in his blood and the art is the antidote.

   • 2022, Derek Muller, "How Horses Save Humans from Snake Bites", Veritasium, 00:03:20 ff.:

     Venom evolved from saliva and it's used primarily for catching and digesting prey.

2. (figuratively) Feeling or speech marked by spite or malice; vitriol.
   • 1599, William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act V, scene ii]:

     The venom of such looks, we fairly hope,
     Have lost their quality, and that this day
     Shall change all griefs and quarrels into love.

   • 1790, Richard Cumberland, The Observer, London: C. Dilly, Volume 5, No. 130, p. 48,^[2]

     […] as I was feasting my jaundiced eye one morning with a certain newspaper, which I was in the habit of employing as the vehicle of my venom, I was startled at discovering myself conspicuously pointed out in an angry column as a cowardly defamer […]

   • 1819, Walter Scott, The Bride of Lammermoor, Chapter 33,^[3]

     “My daughter […] has no occasion to dispute the identity of your person; the venom of your present language is sufficient to remind her that she speaks with the mortal enemy of her father.”

   • 1938, Lawrence Durrell, The Black Book, New York: Open Road, 2012, Book Three,

     History is a study which has none of the venom of reality in it.

   • 1966, James Workman, The Mad Emperor, Melbourne, Sydney: Scripts, page 62:

     The attack was so unwarranted and delivered with such venom that his unpreparedness for it left him speechless.

   • 2007, Roger Ebert, Your Movie Sucks, Kansas City: Andrews McMeel, Introduction,^[4]

     Some of these reviews were written in joyous zeal. Others with glee. Some in sorrow, some in anger, and a precious few with venom, of which I have a closely guarded supply.

同意語

• (poison carried by an animal): venene; venin (now usually venom of certain snakes); atter (古風な用法, dialectal)

上位語

• toxin, poison, toxicant

派生語

動詞

venom (三人称単数 現在形 venoms, 現在分詞 venoming, 過去形および過去分詞形 venomed)

1. (obsolete) To infect with venom; to envenom; to poison.
   • 1566, Thomas Blundeville (translator かつ editor), The Fower Chiefyst Offices Belongyng to Horsemanshippe, London, Chapter 36,^[5]

     […] washe all the filth away with warme water, and annoynte the place with Hony and Fytch flower myngled together. But beware you touche none of the kirnelles with your bare finger, for feare of venoming the place, which is very apt for a Fistula to breede in.

   • c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act V, scene iii]:

     Let’s leave the hermit pity with our mothers,
     And when we have our armours buckled on,
     The venom’d vengeance ride upon our swords,
     Spur them to ruthful work, rein them from ruth.

   • 1669, John Bunyan, The Holy Citie, or, The New-Jerusalem, London: Francis Smith, Commentary, Chapter 21, Verse 25, pp. 229-230,^[6]

     The Dragon is a venemous beast, and poisoneth all where he lieth; he beats the Earth bare, and venoms it, that it will bear no grass […]

   • 1717, William Stonestreet (translator), “The Story of Ants chang’d to Men” in Samuel Garth (editor), Ovid’s Metamorphoses in Fifteen Books. Translated by the most eminent hands, London: Jacob Tonson, Book 7, p. 239,^[7]

     Our Fountains too a dire Infection yield,

     For Crowds of Vipers creep along the Field,

     And with polluted Gore, and baneful Steams,

     Taint all the Lakes, and venom all the Streams.

派生語

• venomer

形容詞

venom (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) Poisonous, poisoned; (比喩的に) pernicious.
   • 1594, William Shakespeare, Lvcrece (First Quarto)‎^[8], London: […] Richard Field, for Iohn Harrison, […], OCLC 236076664:

     Why should the worm intrude the maiden bud?
     Or hateful cuckoos hatch in sparrows’ nests?
     Or toads infect fair founts with venom mud?

   • 1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The life and death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act II, scene 1]:

     […] it is stopp’d with other flattering sounds,
     As praises, of whose taste the wise are fond,
     Lascivious metres, to whose venom sound
     The open ear of youth doth always listen;