† ˈsodomitry Obs.
Forms: α. 6–7 sodomitrie, -itry, 6 -itrye, sodomytrie. β. 6 sodometrye, 6–7 -etrie, -etry.
[f. sodomite + -ry. Cf. OF. sodomiterie.]
1. = sodomy 1. (Common c 1540–c 1650.)
| α 1530 Tindale Answ. More iii. xiii, It..permitteth to abuse men's wives, and suffereth sodomitry. a 1533 Frith Answ. More (1548) C vj b, The shamfull sodomitrye of the Trybe of Beniamin. 1577 T. Vautrollier Luther on Ep. Gal. 229 Simonie,..voluptuousnes, whoredom, sodomitrie and such other infinite abominations. 1634 Sir T. Herbert Trav. 196 The women are not ashamed here (the better to illure the men from Sodomitry) to goe naked. 1673 R. Head Canting Acad. K 7 The abominable vice of Sodomitry. |
| β 1538 Bale Three Lawes Pref. 23 Corrupteth with ydolles, and stynkynge Sodometry. 1585 T. Washington tr. Nicholay's Voy. i. viii. 8 Whoredome, sodometrie, theft, and all other..vices. 1614 Boys Wks. (1630) 256 If there were no stewes, all the world would be full of adulterie, rape, Sodometrie. 1655 Fuller Ch. Hist. iii. 19 That the sin of Sodometry..should be punished with heavy Censures. |
2. = sodomy 2.
| 1592 Timme Eng. Lepers D iij, All offences, even to murthers, incests, Sodomitries, were taxed. 1606 Rep. Disc. Supreme Power 49 The blasphemies, the adulteries, the Sodometries..of diuers other Bishops of Rome. |