coition

noun
/kəʊˈɪʃ(ə)n/UK

Etymology

From the oblique stem of Latin coitiō.

  1. derived from coitiō

Definitions

  1. Sexual intercourse.

    • their coition is made by supersaliency, like that of horses, as we are informed by some who have beheld them in that act
    • A mare put to a stallion fell dead at the end of coition.
    • Sex without the consummating act of coition is never quite sex, in human relationships: just as a eunuch is never quite a man.

The neighborhood

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