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Etymology
Latin veneficus, from venenum ‘poison’.

Pronunciation
IPA|/vɛ'nɛfɪk/

Adjective
en-adj

1. archaic poisonous; pertaining to poison or poisoning

#*1857: Our attorney and Elder Noyse and many others talk of venefic and malignant particles, which shoot from the eyes of witches and enter the bodies of the afflicted. — Putnam's Monthly (Putnam's 1857, p. 411)

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