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| Dictionaries: | Sexual Dictionary | Dictionary of the F-Word |
1. Sexual intercourse . The term is applied to the mating of hunans and animals. See copulation for synonyms.
2. Specifically, vaginal intercourse , in distinction to anal and oral-copulation .
Quotes:
(1) The OED attributes this quote to William Caxton (1483): ' Made one flesshe by carnal copulacyon .'
(2) William Shakespeare (1564-1616) King-Lear : ' Adultery? Thou shalt not die . Die for adultery! / No, the wren goes to't, and the small gilded fly / Does lecher in my sight. Let copulation thrive .'
(3) Andrew Wyke (Laurence Olivier) and Milos Tindle (Michael Caine) in Sleuth (1972): ' I'm in the pink of condition. I could copulate for England at any distance .'
(4) Charlotte Flax (Winona Ryder) implores God by crossing herself in Mermaids (1990): ' Please, God! Don't let me fall in-love and do one-of-those disgusting things .'
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