Crossword clues for copulate
copulate
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Copulate \Cop"u*late\, a. [L. copulatus, p. p. of copulare to couple, fr. copula. See Copula.]
Joined; associated; coupled. [Obs.]
--Bacon.(Gram.) Joining subject and predicate; copulative.
--F. A. March.
Copulate \Cop"u*late\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Copulated; p. pr. & vb. n. Copulating.] To unite in sexual intercourse; to come together in the act of generation.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c., "to join," from Latin copulatus, past participle of copulare "join together, couple, bind, link, unite," from copula "band, tie, link," from PIE *ko-ap-, from *ko(m)- "together" + *ap- (1) "to take, reach" (see apt). Sexual sense attested from 1630s. Related: Copulated; copulating.
Wiktionary
1 (context obsolete English) Joined; associated; coupled. 2 (context grammar English) Joining subject and predicate; copulative. v
To engage in sexual intercourse.
WordNet
Usage examples of "copulate".
I have watched copulating couples moving along darkened freeways at night, men and women on the verge of orgasm, their cars speeding in a series of inviting trajectories towards the flashing headlamps of the oncoming traffic stream.
In any camp at any time of night or early morning, even in the sleepiest time just before dawn, there was always someone at least half awake, thinking about getting up to pass water, or men and women quietly copulating while their children were asleep.
Behind them, through open doors, tables and booths and bars, and kitchens and baths, copulating couples on rows of brass beds, crisscross of a thousand hammocks, junkies tying up for a shot, opium smokers, hashish smokers, people eating talking bathing back into a haze of smoke and steam.
In particular, a male and female that have just copulated to produce a fertilized egg face a "choice" of subsequent behaviors.
How does the male know whether the female copulated with other males while he wasn't looking?
In the face of this inevitable uncertainty, the evolutionary conclusion reached by most male mammals is to walk off the job immediately after copulation, seek more females to impregnate, and leave those females to rear their offspring hoping that one or more of the females with which he copulated will actually have been impregnated by him and will succeed in rearing his offspring unassisted.
Soon that desire reappeared, for he had not had a woman for some time, and he copulated with her again.
It meant that they were friends, and the others took note, just as they had when the man had copulated with the new woman.
Time actually spent copulated: an average of five minutes per go, which is not nearly enough.
Or, if you like long medical words, you mo were copulated and engaging in coition to climax.
Male and female Dash routinely copulated upon the backs of their great steeds.
Or the reverse: They copulated without realizing what it was—until an infant Solarian manifested.
Or the reverse: They copulated without realizing what it was-until an infant Solarian manifested.
But since Saluzzo needed to spend considerable time in her own house, unlike Morando or any of the Libri d'Oro with whom she'd copulated, Bianca had taken the time and effort to exercise the needed rituals on the man.
She hadn't actually copulated with Fianelli's thug since the first few days after she'd murdered her "aunt" and "uncle" and seduced him.