Dictionary

coition en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /kəʊˈɪʃ(ə)n/ (UK)
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Etymology

From the oblique stem of Latin coitiō.

Meanings

1. (uncountable, usually) 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 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
   • A mare put to a stallion fell dead at the end of coition. 1907, Byron Robinson, The Abdominal and Pelvic Brain with Automatic Visceral Ganglia, page 233:
   • Sex without the consummating act of coition is never quite sex, in human relationships: just as a eunuch is never quite a man. 1961, D. H. Lawrence, Fantasia of the Unconscious:
   • All sages and physicians agree in saying that the ills which afflict man originate with the abuse of coition. 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 91:

Forms

Deriveds

coitional

Synonyms

coitus