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Definition of Sodomitical

1. a. Pertaining to, or of the nature of, sodomy.

Definition of Sodomitical

1. Adjective. Pertaining to, or of the nature of, sodomy. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Sodomitical

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sodomitical

Literary usage of Sodomitical

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Reports of Cases in Criminal Law Argued and Determined in All the Courts in by Edward William Cox (1850)
"... lewd, beastly, unnatural, and sodomitical acts and practices; to the great displeasure of Almighty God; to the great scandal and subversion of decency, ..."

2. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of King's Bench: With by Richard Vaughan Barnewall, Great Britain Court of King's Bench, Cresswell Cresswell (1824)
"had been, and was suspected, and publicly accused and charged with having been guilty of sodomitical practices. That defendant, in • discourse concerning ..."

3. Secreted Desires: The Major Uranians by Michael Matthew Kaylor (2006)
"Since the evidence required for proving sodomitical practices and intent could not be circumstantial, it seems that the actual ..."

4. A Treatise on Pleading, and Parties to Actions, with Second and Third by Joseph Chitty, Henry Greening, John A. Dunlap, Edward Duncan Ingraham, Jonathan Cogswell Perkins (1872)
"... suspected by divers persons, subjects of this realm, to have been guilty of sodomitical practices. Yet the said defendant, well knowing the 'premises, ..."

5. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the English Courts of Common Law by Great Britain Bail Court (1870)
"That defendant, in a discourse concerning plaintiff, and concerning *aid JH,arid concerning sodomy and sodomitical practices, spoke, &.c. ..."

6. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of King's Bench: By the by Great Britain Court of King's Bench, Sylvester Douglas Glenbervie (1831)
"Innuendo, that the plaintiff had been guilty of sodomitical practices with Hooper. The jury found a verdict for the plaintiff with ..."

7. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of King's Bench, in the by Great Britain Court of King's Bench (1831)
"Innuendo, that the plaintiff had been guilty of sodomitical practices with Hooper. The jury found a verdict for the plaintiff with £500 ..."

8. A Treatise on Crimes and Misdemeanors by William Oldnall Russell, Horace Smith, Alfred Percival Perceval Keep (1896)
"... with intent to stir up in his own mind and B.'s mind unnatural and sodomitical desires and inclinations, and to incite B. to the committing with A. ..."

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