1.
[syn: sodomy, buggery, anal sex, anal intercourse]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Sodomy \Sod"om*y\, n. [From Sodom. a country mentioned in the
Bible: cf. F. sodomite.]
Carnal copulation in a manner against nature; buggery. --Gen.
xix. 5.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
sodomy
n 1: intercourse via the anus, committed by a man with a man or
woman [syn: sodomy, buggery, anal sex, anal
intercourse]
Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856):
SODOMY, crim. law. The crime against nature, committed either with man or
beast.
2. It is a crime not it to be named; peccatum illud horrible, inter
christianos non nominandum. 4 Bl. Com. 215; 1 East, P. C. 480, 487; Bac. Ab.
h.t.; Hawk. b. 1, c. 4; 1 Hale, 669; Com. Dig. Justices, S 4; Russ. & Ry.
331.
3. This crime was punished with great severity by the civil law. Nov.
141; Nov. 77; Inst. 4, 18, 4. See 1 Russ. on Cr. 568; R. & R. C. C. 331,
412; 1 East, P. C. 437.