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Webster 1913 Edition


Scortatory

Scor′ta-to-ry

,
Adj.
[L.
scortator
a fornicator, from
scortari
to fornicate,
scortum
a prostitute.]
Pertaining to lewdness or fornication; lewd.

Webster 1828 Edition


Scortatory

SCORT'ATORY

,
Adj.
[L. scortator, from scortor.] Pertaining to or consisting in lewdness.

Definition 2024


scortatory

scortatory

English

Adjective

scortatory (not comparable)

  1. pertaining to scortation; lewd, fornicatory
    • 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses:
      Twenty years he dallied there between conjugal love and its chaste delights and scortatory love and its foul pleasures.