sodomite
(ˈsɒdəmaɪt)
Forms: 4, 6– sodomite, 4–6 sodomyt(e, 5 sodomit, -ighte, sodamite, sodam-, sodemyte.
[a. OF. sodomite, or ad. L. Sodomīta (Gr. σοδοµίτης), f. Sodom: see -ite1 1 a. Sense 1 occurs also in OF.]
† 1. Sodomy. Obs. rare.
| a 1300 Cursor M. 27966 Vnkindli sin and sodomite, Austin cals al suilk delite, Þat es not tuix womman and man. c 1315 Shoreham iv. 399 And sodomyt hys senne Aȝens kende y-do. |
2. One who practises or commits sodomy.
| c 1380 Wyclif Wks. (1880) 55 Þat prelatis..ben gostly sodomytis worse þan bodily sodomytis of sodom and gomor. a 1400 Apol. Loll. 55 Are þei not..werr and abhominabler þan carnal sodomits? 1477 Caxton Dictes 11 b, Bren the Sodomytes and punysshe the men taken in fornicacion. 1508 Kennedie Flyting w. Dunbar 527 Deuill, dampnit dog, sodomyte insatiable. 1579 Tomson Calvin's Serm. Tim. 231/1 Whores as they are, yea..vile and shamefull Sodomites, committing suche heinous and abhominable actes, that it is horrible to thinke of. 1632 Lithgow Trav. ix. 409 An open Sodomite, and horrible blasphemer. 1682 Shadwell Medal 42 He boasts of Vice (which he did ne'r commit), Calls himself Whoremaster and Sodomite. 1705 Hickeringill Priest-cr. ii. v. 49 An Adulterer, Simonist, Sodomite, Murtherer, Arrian. |
b. attrib. Sodomitic, sodomitish. rare.
| 13.. Seuyn Sages 1564 (W.), Wimmen he louede swithe lite, And usede sinne sodomighte. 1707 J. Stevens tr. Quevedo's Com. Wks. (1709) 510 That Sodomite Page. |
3. An inhabitant of Sodom.
| 1474 Caxton Chesse iii. vi. (1883) 134 The..vnnaturell synne of lecherye of the sodamites. 1526 Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 105 b, Thus lyued y⊇ vertuous man Loth amonge the Sodomytes. a 1591 H. Smith Serm. (1637) 212 When he fought against the Sodomites, the fire took his part. 1643 Caryl Expos. Job I. 1752 The Sodomites were surprized, when destroyed; they expected it not. 1737 Whiston Josephus, Antiq. i. xi, About this time the Sodomites grew proud, on account of their riches and great wealth. 1865 R. Morris Gen. & Ex. 31 marg., The wicked Sodomites beset Lot's house. 1876 B. Martin Messiah's Kingdom vi. iii. 331 The unnatural lust of the Sodomites. |
Hence † ˈsodomiter, a sodomite; † ˈsodomitess, a woman sodomite. Obs.
| 1523 Coverdale tr. Dulichius' Of the Olde God R, Arystotle the murtherer, Auerrois the sodomyter, Plato the traytour. 1611 Bible Deut. xxiii. 17 There shalbe no whore [marg. sodomitesse] of the daughters of Israel. |