Obs. [f. L. type *coitūra, f. coit-: see COITION, and -URE.]
1. A coming or meeting together, conjunction.
1578. Banister, Hist. Man, V. 83. This elegant coiture of the braunches is made like halfe a circle.
1601. R. Dolman, trans. La Primaud. Fr. Acad., III. (1618), 849. The greene Emeraud … sometimes happeneth to breake euen in the act of coiture.
2. = COITION 2.
1574. Newton, Health Mag., U ij b. Daungers, which much Coiture and carnalitie bringeth.
1615. G. Sandys, Trav., II. 102. This [date] tree … doth not fructifie, but by coiture.
1646. G. Daniel, Poems, Wks. 1878, I. 89. To see that pure fflame fall, a prostitute; And Coiture of Ruffians, cause her ffruite.
