Fornicate

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  • intransitive verb. To commit fornication.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Arched; vaulted or arched over like an oven or furnace, concave within and convex without; hollowed out underneath.
  • In bot.: Overarched with fornices, as the throat of the corolla of the forget-me-not.
  • Overarching: as, a fornicate appendage. Also forniciform.
  • To have illicit sexual intercourse: said of an unmarried person.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • intransitive verb. To commit fornication; to have unlawful sexual intercourse.
  • adjective. Vaulted like an oven or furnace; arched.
  • adjective. Arching over; overarched.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Shaped like or arch or vault; resembling a fornix.
  • verb. To commit fornication.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. have sex without being married
  • Word Usage
    "As for Paul, whose writings make up much of the New Testament outside the Gospels, I had been taught that the word sometimes translated as "fornicate" (porneia), which Paul uses quite a lot, frequently refers to premarital sex -- an assumption that's common in conservative Christian writings on this topic."
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