fornicate

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Either God approves of infanticide and sodomy and loves to steal from people to support people that won't work, lay around and fornicate, and vote consistently to mock God, or vote Republican.

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  1. intransitive verb To commit fornication.

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  • I cannot judge (so as to condemn) those who fornicate: but we can judge the behavior to be sinful. —  Te Deum laudamus!
  • Cunningham on Section 8 housing: "I like keeping all those degenerates in one location so we can keep an eye on them"; residents "sit around and fornicate, defecate" (video)
  • Either God approves of infanticide and sodomy and loves to steal from people to support people that won't work, lay around and fornicate, and vote consistently to mock God, or vote Republican. —  Latest Articles
  • People don't like to use them, but like to fornicate = spread of disease. —  Top Stories - Google News
  • "These guys have been taught from the cradle that it's OK to be gay, to fornicate your brains out by the time you're age 14," added Phelps.
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  1. Late Latin fornicārī, fornicāt-, from fornix, fornic-, vault, vaulted cellar, brothel; see gwher- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Latin fornicatus, arched, from fornix (fornic-), an arch, vault: see fornix.
  2. from Late Latin fornicatus, past participle of fornicari (later Italian fornicare = Portuguese Spanish Fornicar =Provencal fornicar, fornigar = French forniquer), fornicate, from Latin fornix (fornic-), a brothel, so called because generally situated in underground vaults; literally an arch, a vault: see fornicate, adjective
 

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/ˈfɔrnɪkeɪt/
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