Meaning of sodomise | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To engage in sodomy with (someone); to engage in anal (or, rarely, oral) sex as the penetrator (especially without consent).
   transitive
2. To engage in sexual intercourse with (an animal), to engage in bestiality.
   transitive
3. To commit sodomy; to engage in anal sex.
   intransitive
4. To cause great humiliation or harm to (someone or something); to cause great damage to (something, especially from behind).
   figuratively, transitive
5. To cause (a community) to resemble the proverbially sinful biblical city of Sodom.
   obsolete, transitive
6. To cause to be swallowed up or buried (like the biblical city of Sodom, as a punishment).
   obsolete, transitive

Equivalents

Examples

“Propose⟳ to scourge the diabolic flesh, For ever tortured and for ever fresh; Cut⟳ up with red-hot wire adulterous Queens, Man-burning Bishops, Sodomizing Deans;”

“Young Tyler was sent off to English boarding school at an early age to be sodomized and otherwise inculcated into the British establishment.”

“[…] some men also found that it [amyl nitrite] relaxed their anal sphincters, enabling them more comfortably to be sodomised.”

“2016, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Birth of a Dream⟳ Weaver, New York and London: The New Press⟳, Chapter 6, pp. 85-86, There are only a few whispers here and there, and sometimes one or two who are so crazed by the experience⟳ that they talk⟳—of torture […] but they don’t give⟳ details. […] Men too, sodomized with bottles; some, their testicles crushed, nor can they talk⟳ about it, except when the “craziness” overtakes them.”

“The donkey was bellowing because the Two-Time Kid […] was in the process⟳ of sodomizing it, and even for a docile donkey, there are limits.”

“Suppose⟳ a Devill from th’infernall Pit, More Monsterlike, then ere was Devill yet, Contrary to course, taking a male fiend To Sodomize with him, such was the mind⟳ Of this Lord Bishop,”

“Our Spartan in his early twenties has for some years had a male lover, and they sodomize together.”

“Well, he’d been wrong, hadn’t he […] thought Dover, reducing speed⟳ to avoid⟳ sodomizing an articulated truck which had decided to leap⟳ into the centre lane.”

“1986, Hanif Kureishi, The Rainbow Sign⟳ in My Beautiful Laundrette and The Rainbow Sign⟳, London: Faber and Faber, Chapter 2, p. 18, ‘I tell⟳ you, this country is being sodomized by religion. It is even beginning to interfere⟳ with the making of money. […] ’”

“[…] she looked around the empty rooms and faced, and knew, and ate, and got rightly sodomised by, her shame.”

“1601, W. I., The Whipping of Satyre, London: John Flasket, “The Pilgrims Story,” For if this Land⟳ be Sodomiz’d with sinne, It’s not your lots to be at Lots therein.”

“The depravity of manners, the scandalous indecency and obscenity of Lincoln’s own⟳ daily conversation [i.e. lifestyle], seems to have⟳ fallen like⟳ a fatal epidemic upon the people. He has Sodomized the nation.”

“1865, John Langdon Dudley, Discourse Preached in the South Congregational Church, Middletown, Ct., Middletown: D. Barnes, p. 12, An inspiration that is infernal enough to organize a conspiracy to overthrow⟳ this government, for the purpose of establishing on its ruins the odious and sodomizing empire of Slavery, is bad enough, and mean⟳ enough, to be a cowardly assassin.”

“1657, John Cragge, A Cabinet of Spirituall Jewells, London: H. Twyford et al., “Of the Expediency of Marriage,” p. 170, […] Corah and his complices sodomized in a new Asphaltic gulph, for counter-censuring Moses and Aaron;”

“1659, Christopher Clobery, Divine Glimpses of a Maiden Muse, London: James Cottrel, “The Charge,” pp. 141-142, […] daring impudence! Enough to make⟳ Heaven blush at the offence, And pour⟳ down thunder-bolts of indignation, To root for ever hence our Name⟳ and Nation, To puff us off like⟳ th’atoms of a feather, And Sodomize us into Hell together.”

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