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▪ I. fornicate, v.|ˈfɔːnɪkeɪt|
[f. L. fornicāt-, ppl. stem of fornicārī of same meaning, f. fornic-, fornix brothel, originally arch, vault (see fornix).]
intr. To commit fornication.
1552Huloet, Fornicaten, or commit fornication or lechery, fornicor. 1649Milton Eikon. xxviii. Wks. (1847) 336/2 These shall hate the great Whore..and yet shall lament the fall of Babylon, where they fornicated with her. 1668G. Etherege She wou'd if she cou'd ii. ii, We..are resolved to fornicate in private. 1824Landor Imag. Conv. I. 155 He hunted and drank and fornicated.
Hence ˈfornicating vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1620Bp. Hall Hon. Mar. Clergy i. viii. 42 The heroicall spirit of Luther..chose rather..to be an honest Husband, than a fornicating Frier. 1625Bp. Saunderson Twelve Serm. (1637) 207 Their fornicating both bodily with the daughters, and spiritually with the Idols of Moab.
▪ II. fornicate, a.|ˈfɔːnɪkət|
[ad. L. fornicāt-us, f. fornix arch, vault: see -ate2.]
= fornicated; spec. in Bot., Conchol., and Entom.
1828Webster, Fornicate, arched, vaulted like an oven or furnace. 1829Loudon Encycl. Pl. 1099 Fornicate, arched. 1839Sowerby Man. Conchol. Gloss., Fornicate, arched. 1856–8W. Clark Van der Hoeven's Zool. I. 326 Four setæ of haustellum, and an upper fornicate. |