Emily Dickinson Lexicon

FORN-I-CA'TION, n. [L. fornicatio.]

1. The incontinence or lewdness of unmarried persons, male or female; also, the criminal conversation of a married man with an unmarried woman. Laws of Connecticut.
2. Adultery. Matth. v.
3. Incest. 1 Cor. v.
4. Idolatry; a forsaking of the true God, and worshiping of idols. 2 Chron. xxi. Rev. xix.
5. An arching; the forming of a vault.