Sodomy

n.

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Carnal copulation in a manner against nature; buggery.

Noun

1.

sodomy - anal intercourse committed by a man with a man or woman Synonyms: anal intercourse, anal sex, buggery

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.

anal intercourse, anal sex, bugger, buggery, perversion, sexual perversion, sodomise, sodomize