English-Thai Dictionary

fornication

N การ ลักลอบ เป็นชู้  การ ลักลอบ ได้เสียกัน ก่อน แต่งงาน 

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

FORNICATION

n.[L. fornicatio.] 1. The incontinence or lewdness of unmarried persons, male or female; also, the criminal conversation of a married man with an unmarried woman.
2. Adultery. Matthew 5:32.
3. Incest. 1 Corinthians 5:1.
4. Idolatry; a forsaking of the true God, and worshipping of idols. 2 Chronicles 21:11; Revelation 19:2.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

FORNICATION

For `ni *ca "tion, n. Etym: [F. fornication, L. fornicatio.]

 

1. Unlawful sexual intercourse on the part of an unmarried person; the act of such illicit sexual intercourse between a man and a woman as does not by law amount to adultery.

 

Note: In England, the offense, though cognizable in the ecclesiastical courts, was not at common law subject to secular prosecution. In the United States it is indictable in some States at common law, in others only by statute. Whartyon.

 

2. (Script. ) (a ) Adultery. (b ) Incest. (c ) Idolatry.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

fornication

for ni ca tion |ˌfôrniˈkāSHən fɔːrnɪˈkeɪʃn | ▶noun formal or humorous sexual intercourse between people not married to each other: laws forbidding adultery and fornication.

 

Oxford Dictionary

fornication

for ¦ni |ca ¦tion |ˌfɔːnɪˈkeɪʃn | ▶noun [ mass noun ] formal or humorous sexual intercourse between people not married to each other: laws forbidding adultery and fornication.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

fornication

fornication noun formal the nuns warned us about the spiritual price one pays for fornication: extramarital sex, extramarital relations, adultery, infidelity, unfaithfulness, cuckoldry; premarital sex; informal hanky-panky.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

fornication

fornication noun formal the punishment for fornication was flogging: extramarital sex, extramarital relations, adultery, infidelity, unfaithfulness, cuckoldry; affair, liaison, sexual intercourse, sex, intercourse, sexual relations, coupling; informal hanky-panky, a bit on the side, bonking, rumpy pumpy, a bit of the other, how's your father; S. African informal pata-pata; archaic carnal knowledge, congress, commerce.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

fornication

f ò r ni c á tion 名詞 U ｟かたく 非難して ｠私通, 婚外性交 .