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fornicate
(redirected from fornications)

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for·ni·cate  (fôrn-kt)
intr.v. for·ni·cat·ed, for·ni·cat·ing, for·ni·cates
To commit fornication.

[Late Latin fornicr, fornict-, from fornix, fornic-, vault, vaulted cellar, brothel; see gwher- in Indo-European roots.]

forni·cator n.

fornicate1
vb
(intr) to indulge in or commit fornication
[from Late Latin fornicārī, from Latin fornix vault, brothel situated therein]
fornicator  n

fornicate2, fornicated
adj
(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Biology) Biology arched or hoodlike in form
[from Latin fornicātus arched, from fornix vault]
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Verb1.fornicate - have sex without being married
bonk, do it, eff, fuck, get it on, get laid, have a go at it, have intercourse, have it away, have it off, have sex, be intimate, lie with, roll in the hay, screw, sleep together, sleep with, make love, hump, jazz, love, bed, bang, make out, know - have sexual intercourse with; "This student sleeps with everyone in her dorm"; "Adam knew Eve"; "Were you ever intimate with this man?"
swing - engage freely in promiscuous sex, often with the husband or wife of one's friends; "There were many swinging couples in the 1960's"
whore - have unlawful sex with a whore
wench - frequent prostitutes
bed-hop, bedhop, sleep around - be sexually active with more than one partner; "His wife bed hops"
Translations
fornicate [ˈfɔːnɪkeɪt] VI (frm) → fornicar

fornicate [ˈfɔːrnɪkeɪt] viforniquer

fornicate

fornicate [ˈfɔːnɪˌkeɪt] vifornicare
fornicate [ˈfɔːnɪˌkeɪt] vifornicare

fornicate
v fornicate [ˈfoː(r)nikeit]
to have sex with someone to whom one is not married. ontug pleeg يَزْني، يضاجِعُ غير زوجته развратнича stýkat se pohlavně (za svobodna), smilnit bedrive hor fremdgehen συνουσιάζομαι fornicar hoorama زنا کردن harjoittaa haureutta forniquer לִנאוֹף व्यभिचार करना bludniciti paráználkodik berzina fornicare 不倫する 간통하다 turėti nesantuokinių santykių stāties ārlaulības sakaros berzina voorhuwelijkse seks hebben drive hor; hore cudzołożyć прелюбодействовать smilniť, súložiť prešuštvovati izvršiti preljubu bedriva otukt มีความสัมพันธ์ทางเพศโดยไม่ได้แต่งงาน zina etmek 通奸 блудити غیر شادی شدہ مرد اور عورت کا باہمی رضامندی کے ساتھ مباشرت کرنا thông dâm
n forniˈcation
ontugtigheid زنى، مضاجعة غير الزوجَه أو الزوج разврат pohlavní styk (za svobodna), smilnění hor das Fremdgehen συνουσία fornicación hooramine زنا haureus fornication קִיוּם יַחֲסֵי מִין ללא נִישוּאִין व्यभिचार blud, kurvanje paráználkodás perzinaan fornicazione 不倫 간통 nesantuokiniai santykiai ārlaulības sakari perzinaan voorhuwelijkse seks, losbandigheid hor; samleie cudzołóstwo внебрачная связь smilstvo, súlož prešuštvo preljuba otukt, hor การมีความสัมพันธ์ทางเพศโดยไม่ได้แต่งงาน zina 通姦 блуд زناشوی sự thông dâm


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The book's antihero, Tyrone Slothrop, the map of whose fornications in London during the Blitz predicts the pattern of V-2 landings, was a classic schlemiel in the mold of Nathanael West's Lemuel Pitkin and Joseph Heller's Yossarian.
Consequently, as Deacon listens to Consolata's plans to make the Convent cellar, with its walls of wine to "slake their thirst" (237), into their love nest, he is drawn to turn her into a "Scarlet Whore" intent on making him "DRUNK WITH THE WINE OF HER FORNICATIONS," as Henry Cummings put it in his 1766 sermon (qtd in Elliott, Puritan 123).
Just as she never renounces her radicalism as a sinful delusion, she never simplistically denounces her sexual freedom as a roster of fornications.
 
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