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動詞

transvenom (third-person singular simple present transvenoms, present participle transvenoming, simple past and past participle transvenomed)

1. (transitive, archaic) To make venomous.
   • (Can we find and add a quotation of Samuel Taylor Coleridge to this entry?)

     […] the main pioneer of that atheistic philosophy, which in France transvenomed the natural thirst of truth into the hydrophobia of a wild and homeless scepticism; […]

   • 1829, John Angell James, The Family Monitor, Or a Help to Domestic Happiness (page 55)

     […] connubial love is the most beatifying passion; and to transvenom this into unkindness, is to open at the very centre of our soul, a source of poison, which, before it exudes to torture others, torments ourselves.

   • 1857, John Angell James, The Young Man's Friend and Guide Through Life to Immortality (page 120)

     How many carry the heart of a savage under the name of a son; and […] towards even their parents transvenom all emotions of filial piety into the wormwood and gall of intense hatred of those to whom they owe their very existence!