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fornicate
Word definitions for fornicate in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fornicate \For"ni*cate\, Fornicated \For"ni*ca`ted\, a. [L. fornicatus, fr. fornix, -icis, an arch, vault.] Vaulted like an oven or furnace; arched. (Bot.) Arching over; overarched. --Gray.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
verb EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Many were almost illiterate and spent much of their time drinking and fornicating, as did some of the nuns. ▪ Those who joined were forced to fornicate in the presence of others.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. have sex without being married
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
Shaped like an arch or vault; resembling a fornix. v (context intransitive English) To commit fornication.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1550s, "have illicit sexual intercourse" (said of an unmarried person), from Late Latin fornicatus , past participle of fornicari "to fornicate" (see fornication ). Perhaps in some cases a back-formation from fornication . Related: Fornicated ; fornicating ...
Usage examples of fornicate.
The fornicating Arandos is muddy enough already, without them stirring up more muck for us to drink.
Sometimes he had to clamber over a roomful of sleepers or fornicators, since the slaves and peasantry had nothing to do after dark except sleep or fornicate.
Her only response had been a mocking smile—until he loudly declared that the reason no decent man would have her was because she fornicated with the Evil One and the stench of the vile union clung to her.
The sporulating vine may only dream that it fornicates, but I am sure the Venus flytrap tastes that fly, relishes its diminishing struggle as its jaws close around it.
Like this bit about the freedom of religion not meaning the town can't put up a creche at Christmas, the speech not including fornicating in the streets, assembly not including rioting, property subject to legal usage, and trial not meaning damnfool stuff like throwing anyone who knows anything off a jury, things like that.
Men fornicated frantically with women, genitally, orally and anally, and those who could not get hold of female anatomy rapidly enough plunged with equal fervor into the orifices of whatever was within range.
The grand conjunction was every Saturday night, Leo fornicating with Draco in the house of brother and sister.
We know that those brutish creatures down there in the Post, busily fighting and fornicating and breeding and dying, they are the true heart of humanity.
Ayeeyal,, u p to twenty-odd years ago when the barbarians lost their fornicating war to the fiends from the Eastern Sea, the government monopolized the trade here.
Ayeeyah, up to twenty-odd years ago when the barbarians lost their fornicating war to the fiends from the Eastern Sea, the government monopolized the trade here.
The word naai had a double meaning: not only to sew but also to fornicate.
The drooling notes are the foam and dribble of the epileptic, the night sweat of the fornicating nigger frigged by the Jew.
This was one of Three Oaths Tsun's hedges against the fornicating Communists.
Every one o' these spalpeens should be seeing the need to put the fornicating bandits down, and too many dinna for me to think the lot of 'em fools.
He should have just swived her in the stable, but he’d fornicated in enough places to know his lousy pile of straw wasn’t thick and well stacked enough to protect her royal behind during the crucial moments.