Emily Dickinson Lexicon

EN-VEN'OM, v.t. [from venom.]

1. To poison; to taint or impregnate with venom, or any substance noxious to life; never applied, in this sense, to persons, but to meat, drink or weapons; as, an envenomed arrow or shaft; an envenomed potion.
2. To taint with bitterness or malice; as, the envenomed tongue of slander.
3. To make odious. O what a world is this, when what is comely / Envenoms him that hears it! Shak.
4. To enrage; to exasperate. Dryden.