Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for FORN'I-CATE
FORN'I-CATE, or FORN'I-CA-TEDFORN-I-CA'TION
FORN'I-CATE, v.i. [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 brahmin fornicate with a Nayr woman, he shall not thereby lose his cast. As. Researches.
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