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Pederast

Pederast \Ped"er*ast\, n. [Gr. paiderasth`s; pai^s, paido`s, a boy + 'era^n to love: cf. F. p['e]d['e]raste.] One guilty of pederasty; a sodomite.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
pederast

1730s, from French pédéraste, from Latin paederasta, from Greek paiderastes "a lover of boys" (see pederasty).

Wiktionary
pederast

n. A man who is engaged in an erotic relationship with an adolescent boy; a practitioner of pederasty.

WordNet
pederast

n. a man who has sex (usually sodomy) with a boy as the passive partner [syn: paederast, child molester]

Usage examples of "pederast".

I rose from my chair, and after giving the impudent pederast a box on the ear I asked the mother with what intentions she had brought the young rascal to my house.

Mungo, near thirty years of age, was an insatiable wencher on land and a predatory pederast at sea.

I visualized the fantasies of contented paedophiliacs, hiring the deformed bodies of children injured in crashes, assuaging and irrigating their wounds with their own scarred genital organs, of elderly pederasts easing their tongues into the simulated anuses of colostomized juveniles.

They were tired, too, of trying to maintain discipline in the troops at a time when their commander-in-chief was an actor, recitalist, multimurderer, and pederast.

Rome the holy, which thus strives to make all men pederasts, denies the fact, and will not believe in the effects of the glamour of her own devising.

If all are such as you, cousina peacock-pretty pederast with a voice like a girl and no more body hair than the boy children you beat and abuse, with less courage than a baby mousethen mayhap a mainland ruled by clean, normal, courageous, and uncomplicated barbarians would make for better neighbors.

He cautioned me, however, to abandon the practice once I matriculated, lest it lead me into scandal, fistula, or logical realism-the philosophy of Maios and Scapulas, which Max declared to be as favored by pederasts as was solipsism by masturbators.

An aging pederast mutilates himself out of love for a strangely tattooed street hustler.

Pass splendid specimens of Anglo-Norman architecture, pass pedestrians and pederasts, open hearth furnaces, basic Bessemer mills, dynamos and transformers, pig iron castings and steel ingots.

We all know that that group of pederasts is activeand supplieddespite international efforts to eradicate that sort of traffic.

The public at large, pedestrians and pederasts, goldfish and spun-glass palm trees, donkeys sobbing, all circulating freely through quincuncial alleys.

Robbers, thieves, pederasts all, they'd violated the law in a country where law was a thing of God, and if it was stern, it was also fair.

And so ill-ordered was Main Detention, we all might have perished at Croaker's hands between lock-up times had there not been hosts of passive pederasts and suicidal drop-outs eager for abuse, who diverted him at great cost of limbs and fundaments, not all which Max's skill could repair without medical equipment.

How many photographs confiscated from the collections of pederasts would find their way into her papers, appear on the walls of the toilet cubicles?

The fools who determined the rules of women's bodies were probably pederasts who wished them all to look like young boys.