Sodomy

3 definitions found

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

  Sodomy \Sod"om*y\, n. [From Sodom. a country mentioned in the
     Bible: cf. F. sodomite.]
     Carnal copulation in a manner against nature; buggery. --Gen.
     xix. 5.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  sodomy
       n : anal intercourse committed by a man with a man or woman
           [syn: {buggery}, {anal sex}, {anal intercourse}]

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  SODOMY, crim. law. The crime against nature, committed either with man or 
  beast. 
       2. It is a crime not it to be named; peccatum illud horrible, inter 
  christianos non nominandum. 4 Bl. Com. 215; 1 East, P. C. 480, 487; Bac. Ab. 
  h.t.; Hawk. b. 1, c. 4; 1 Hale, 669; Com. Dig. Justices, S 4; Russ. & Ry. 
  331. 
       3. This crime was punished with great severity by the civil law. Nov. 
  141; Nov. 77; Inst. 4, 18, 4. See 1 Russ. on Cr. 568; R. & R. C. C. 331, 
  412; 1 East, P. C. 437.