sodomitical, a.
(sɒdəˈmɪtɪkəl)
[f. L. Sodomītic-us (cf. prec.) + -al1.]
1. Of persons: Guilty of, committing, or practising sodomy.
| 1546 Supplic. Poore Commons (E.E.T.S.) 75 The outragiouse belowing of a sorte of sodomiticall buls. 1550 Bale Eng. Votaries i. (1560) 4 b That Sodomiticall swarme or brode of Antichrist. 1605 M. Sutcliffe Brief Exam. 53 Enemies to all lecherous and Sodomiticall Friars. 1667 Termes de la Ley 407 By the Common Law..sodomiticall persons, and hereticks, should be burnt. 1687 Shadwell Tenth Sat. Juvenal 49 A filthy Sodomitical Schoolmaster. |
† b. With whom sodomy is committed. Obs.
| a 1555 Bradford Hurt of Hearing Mass (1558) D j b, So are the hartes of our popishe protestaunts..hardened..in that they looke, yea, go backe agayne to theyr sodomiticall minion. 1612 Trav. Four Englishm. 83 If they haue no beards at all, they call them (if they be yong)..Sodomiticall boyes. 1634 Sir T. Herbert Trav. 87 Hither sometimes the King repaires, and sees the Sodomiticall Boyes and Wenches dance. |
2. Of the nature of, characterized by, consisting in, or involving sodomy.
| 1550 Bale Eng. Votaries ii. 21 b, Their sodomytycal chastyte agaynst Gods fre instytucyon. 1588 A. King tr. Canisius' Catech. 149 Quhat is writtin of ye Sodomiticall sinne. 1629 L. O[wen] Spec. Jesuiticum 26 Wherein hee shewed his Sodomiticall affection, and diabolicall desire. 1645 E. Pagitt Heresiogr. (1661) 225 Their Idolatries and Sodomitical uncleanness they will defend and maintain. 1700 T. Brown tr. Fresny's Amusem. 31 To carry on a Sodomitical Intrigue. 1762 Gentl. Mag. 386 A clergyman..convicted for a Sodomitical attempt. 1864 tr. Caspar's Forensic Med. III. 336 note, In regard to the question whether such a sodomitical coitus could have taken place. |
† 3. Of places, institutions, etc.: Polluted or infected by sodomy. Obs.
| 1550 Bale Apol. 19 Than were they allowed for a spyrytuall religion in that Sodomiticall churche of Antichrist. 1572 R. T. Discourse 39 The Church of Christ is holy Hierusalem: The Popes is adulterous Babylon, and Sodomitical Rome. 1600 O. E. (M. Sutcliffe) Repl. Libel ii. ii. 32 To creepe into a Sodomiticall cloister of monkes. 1632 W. Lithgow Trav. ii. 76 If all the Priests..were thus handled.., what a sea of Sodomiticall irreligious blood would ouerflow the halfe of Europe. |
Hence sodoˈmitically adv.; sodoˈmiticalness.
| 1601 Sir A. Sherley Trav. (1863) 41 Which if he wanted hee would hire a boy sodomitically to use. 1677 W. Hughes Man of Sin ii. xii. 232 Two Noble youths..being Sodomitically abused by this Infernal Goat. 1718 Prideaux Connex. O. & N.T. ii. ii. 74 Agathocles, being Sodomitically given, fell in love with a beautiful young Man. 1727 Bailey (vol. II), Sodomiticalness, Guiltiness of Sodomy. |