VENAL Copy link • VENALPertaining to the veins, by genitive, venae or venarum. Open to bribery and corruption, mercenary, venalis (Cic.): pretio venalis (Liv.): numarius (opposed to integer, incorruptus, abstinens). Venal judges, judices numarii (Cic., Att., 1, 16, 8).