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Webster 1913 Edition
Fornication
Forˊni-ca′tion
,Noun.
[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.
☞ 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.
Webster 1828 Edition
Fornication
FORNICA'TION
,Noun.
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. Matt. 5.3.
Incest. 1Cor. 5.4.
Idolatry; a forsaking of the true God, and worshipping of idols. 2Chron. 21. Rev. 19.