spintrian

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adjective Of or pertaining to sex or fornication (especially homosexual) between three or more people.

From Latin spintria ("male prostitute"), from Ancient Greek σφιγκτήρ (sphinkēr, "something which binds"), referring to the anal sphincter.

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For there are certain tempers of body which, matched with a humorous depravity of mind, do hath and produce vitiosities, whose newness and monstrosity of nature admits no name; this was the temper of that lecher that carnaled with a statua, and the constitution of Nero in his spintrian recreations.

Religio Medici 2007
For there are certain tempers of body which, matched with a humorous depravity of mind, do hath and produce vitiosities, whose newness and monstrosity of nature admits no name; this was the temper of that lecher that carnaled with a statua, and the constitution of Nero in his spintrian recreations.

Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and the Letter to a Friend 1643