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fornicate

adjective

[L. fornicatus, from fornix, an arch.]

Arched; vaulted like an oven or furnace.

fornicate

verb intransitive

[L. 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.