venat-, vener- +

1. Of or pertaining to, employed in, devoted to, hunting.
2. Like or pertaining to hunting in ancient Roman times.
3. Belonging to hunting or chasing.

"Hunts", involving the slaughter of animals, especially fierce ones, by other animals or by human bestiarii (fighters of wild beasts) and, sometimes of criminals by animals, were a major spectacle at Rome from 186 B.C.

They supposedly displayed the ingenuity and generosity of the sponsoring politician, and the reach of Rome and its power over nature, in procuring exotic species (lions, panthers, bears, bulls, crocodiles, hippopotamuses, rhinoceroses, and elephants).

Inclined to hunting: "Take a rabbit, deer, or fox, etc. and let them be kept among the hounds in their kennel so that the venatious appetite of them is not excited, and they will not meddle with them."

1. A hunter or huntsman.
2. An ancient Roman soldier who specialized in hunting wild animals.

1. Connected with hunting.
2. Given to hunting; addicted to the chase.

A reference to hunting; such as, men are venatory creatures or the venatory skills of stalking animals.

The act or sport of hunting; the chase; the practice of hunting, or the animals hunted.

Venery, "hunting" [archaic], "to hunt" from Latin venari, "to hunt, pursue"; the act, art, or sport of hunting; "love for the pursuit [hunt]".

Don't confuse this word with another venery which refers to "the pursuit of or indulgence in sexual pleasure".