
Noah Webster
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.