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First published 2001 (DOST Vol. IX).
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Quotation dates: 1490, 1552-1575, 1681
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Sodomy(e, -ie, n. Also: sodame. [ME sodomye (1297), F. sodomie.] Sodomy. 1490 Irland Mir. I 141/25.
The foule syn of sodomy agane nature c1552 Lynd. Mon. 3401.
[They] lyke brutall beistis … Unnaturally abusit thare kyndis By … abhominabyll sodomie c1552 Lynd. Mon. 3472.
That self syn of sodomye, And most abhominabyll bewgrye 1572-5 Diurnal of Occurrents 186.
Thair wer tua personis brint … for the committing of the horrible sinne of sodame 1681 Stair Inst. iv xl §26.
Violence upon the chastity … as when men are abused with sodomy, or women with rape or sodomy
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