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fornicator|ˈfɔːnɪkeɪtə(r)|
[a. L. fornicātor, agent-n. f. fornicārī: see fornicate.]
1. One who commits fornication.
1377Langl. P. Pl. B. ii. 180 Oure cart shal he drawe, And fecche forth oure vitailes of fornicatores. 1477Earl Rivers (Caxton) Dictes 11 Kepe you oute of the companyes of..fornicatours. 1552Abp. Hamilton Catech. (1884) 10 Fornicatouris and provokaris to the synne of lechorie. a1710G. Bull Serm. Wks. I. ix. 237 What will become of..the adulterer, the fornicator..and such like? 1869Spurgeon Treas. Dav. Ps. x. 3 If a man is a fornicator, or a drunkard.
†2. Billiards. (See quot.) Obs.
1674Cotton's Compl. Gamester i. 29 Make your Adversary a Fornicator, that is, having past your self a little way, and the other's Ball being hardly through the Port, you put him back again, and it may be quite out of Pass. |