[a. L. fornicþtor, agent-n. f. fornicþrō: see FORNICATE.]

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  1.  One who commits fornication.

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1377.  Langl., P. Pl., B. II. 190.

                        Oure cart shal he drawe,
And fecche forth oure vitailes · of fornicatores.

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1477.  Earl Rivers (Caxton), Dictes, 11. Kepe you oute of the companyes of theues of fornicatours, and of thoos that vse euil werkis.

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1552.  Abp. Hamilton, Catech. (1884), 10. Simpil fornicatouris and provokaris to the synne of lechorie.

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a. 1710.  Bp. Bull, Serm., Wks. I. ix. 237. What will become of the notoriously vicious, the gross and scandalous sinner, the drunkard, the adulterer, the fornicator, the common swearer, the malicious and revengeful person, the liar, the extortioner, the oppressor, and such like?

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1869.  Spurgeon, Treas. Dav., Ps. x. 3. If a man is a fornicator, or a drunkard, we put him out of the church.

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  † 2.  Billiards. (See quot.) Obs.

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1674.  Cotton’s Compl. Gamester, i. 29. Make your Adversary a Fornicator, that is, having past your self a little way, and the other’s Ball being hardly through the Port, you put him back again, and it may be quite out of Pass.

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