Obs. [ad. L. coit-us going together, coition, f. co-īre to go together. Cf. F. coït (16th c. in Littré).] = COITION 2.

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1671.  Phil. Trans., VI. 2255. If from the coit of these Animals … Animals should be born.

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1745.  J. Parsons, Lect. Musc. Motion, iii. 78. From the Coit that produced the Fecundation.

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1766.  Amory, Buncle (1766), II. 56. The inclination to a coit is so strongly impressed on the machine by the author of it.

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