Incest

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Incest \In"cest\, n. [F. inceste, L. incestum unchastity,
     incest, fr. incestus unchaste; pref. in- not + castus chaste.
     See {Chaste}.]
     The crime of cohabitation or sexual intercourse between
     persons related within the degrees wherein marriage is
     prohibited by law; broadly, sexual relations between closely


     related persons, usually taken as first cousins or closer.
     --Shak.
     [1913 Webster +PJC]
  
     {Spiritual incest}. (Eccl. Law)
     (a) The crime of cohabitation committed between persons who
         have a spiritual alliance by means of baptism or
         confirmation.
     (b) The act of a vicar, or other beneficiary, who holds two
         benefices, the one depending on the collation of the
         other.
         [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  incest
       n : sexual intercourse between persons too closely related to
           marry (as between a parent and a child)

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  46 Moby Thesaurus words for "incest":
     active algolagnia, adultery, algolagnia, algolagny, amphierotism,
     autoeroticism, bisexuality, concubinage, coprophilia,
     criminal conversation, cuckoldry, exhibitionism,
     extracurricular sex, extramarital relations, fetishism,
     fornication, free love, free-lovism, heterosexuality,
     homoeroticism, homosexualism, homosexuality, incestuousness,
     lesbianism, masochism, narcissism, necrophilia, paraphilia,
     passive algolagnia, pedophilia, premarital relations,
     premarital sex, sadism, sadomasochism, sapphism, scotophilia,
     sexual inversion, sexual normality, sexual preference,
     swinging both ways, transvestitism, tribadism, tribady, voyeurism,
     zooerastia, zoophilia