| 释义 |
scortation rare.|skɔːˈteɪʃən|
[n. of action to L. scortārī: see next and -ation.]
Fornication.
1556Knox Baptism Wks. 1855 IV. 127 The Halie Gaist..wald have restraynit and exceptit it, as he hath done scortatioun. 1651Baxter Inf. Bapt. 85 The sanctifying of the unbelieving Husband or Wife cannot be meant of making or continuing the Marriage lawfull, in opposition to Adultery (or scortation). 1658Rowland tr. Moufet's Theat. Ins. 919, I see no reason why the modesty of the Bee and of the Drone, whereby they abandon publick scortation and venery, should debar them of the private use of copulation. 1794tr. Swedenborg's Delights Wisd. Conjugial Love (1811) II. 312 It is a scortation more opposite to conjugial love than the common scortation, which is called simple adultery. 1885L. Oliphant Sympneumata 113 Rapacity,..filth, and scortation. |