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Fornicate


FORN'ICATE,

FORN'ICATED, adjective [Latin fornicatus, from fornix, an arch.] Arched; vaulted like an oven or furnace.

FORN'ICATE, verb intransitive [Latin fornicor, from fornix, a brothel.]

To commit lewdness, as an unmarried man or woman, or as a married man with an unmarried woman.

If a brahman fornicate with a Nayr woman, he shall not thereby lose his cast.