Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A coming together; a meeting. Specifically
  • noun Sexual congress; copulation.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A coming together; sexual intercourse; copulation.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Sexual intercourse.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the act of sexual procreation between a man and a woman; the man's penis is inserted into the woman's vagina and excited until orgasm and ejaculation occur

Etymologies

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From Latin coitionem.

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Examples

  • It here means the art of moving in coition, which is especially affected, even by modest women, throughout the East and they have many books teaching the genial art.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • The essence of the “retaining art” is to avoid over-tension of the muscles and to pre-occupy the brain: hence in coition Hindus will drink sherbet, chew betel-nut and even smoke.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • It is calculated that the French of the sixteenth century had four hundred names for the parts genital and three hundred for their use in coition.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • How their faiths could decline so low, as to concede their generations in Heaven, to be made by the smell of a Citron, or that the felicity of their Paradise should consist in a Jubile of copulation, that is, a coition of one act prolonged unto fifty years.

    El Hombre Que Comía Diccionarios 2009

  • How their faiths could decline so low, as to concede their generations in Heaven, to be made by the smell of a Citron, or that the felicity of their Paradise should consist in a Jubile of copulation, that is, a coition of one act prolonged unto fifty years.

    El Hombre Que Comía Diccionarios 2009

  • How their faiths could decline so low, as to concede their generations in Heaven, to be made by the smell of a Citron, or that the felicity of their Paradise should consist in a Jubile of copulation, that is, a coition of one act prolonged unto fifty years.

    El Hombre Que Comía Diccionarios 2009

  • How their faiths could decline so low, as to concede their generations in Heaven, to be made by the smell of a Citron, or that the felicity of their Paradise should consist in a Jubile of copulation, that is, a coition of one act prolonged unto fifty years.

    El Hombre Que Comía Diccionarios 2009

  • How their faiths could decline so low, as to concede their generations in Heaven, to be made by the smell of a Citron, or that the felicity of their Paradise should consist in a Jubile of copulation, that is, a coition of one act prolonged unto fifty years.

    El Hombre Que Comía Diccionarios 2009

  • How their faiths could decline so low, as to concede their generations in Heaven, to be made by the smell of a Citron, or that the felicity of their Paradise should consist in a Jubile of copulation, that is, a coition of one act prolonged unto fifty years.

    El Hombre Que Comía Diccionarios 2009

  • How their faiths could decline so low, as to concede their generations in Heaven, to be made by the smell of a Citron, or that the felicity of their Paradise should consist in a Jubile of copulation, that is, a coition of one act prolonged unto fifty years.

    El Hombre Que Comía Diccionarios 2009

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