rare. [f. SODOM + -IST.] A sodomite.
1604. Dekker, Cause of Plague.
| With Spaniards, shee’s an Indianist, | |
| With barbarous Turks a Sodomist. |
1675. S. Annesley, Morning-Exercise agst. Popery, xvii. 583. Our Molinæus telleth us, that by the Rules of the Roman Church, a Sodomist may exercise the Priesthood; and by that abominable vice doth not run into irregularity.
1885. H. McS. Gamble, trans. Du Saulle’s Delusion of Persecution, in Gaillard’s Med. Jrnl., XLI. 641–2. The first one who shall reproach me again in the street with being a sodomist, I am going to have him arrested, or—I will break his neck.
1891. in Cent. Dict.
1915. Havelock Ellis, Studies in the Psychology of Sex, II. 38, note. In early Teutonic days there was little or no trace of any punishment for homosexual practices in Germany. This, according to Hermann Michaëlis, only appeared after the Church had gained power among the West Goths; in the Breviarium of Alaric II (506), the sodomist was condemned to the stake, and later, in the seventh century, by an edict of King Chindasvinds, to castration.
1922. ‘Frank’ & ‘Bob’ Blackstone, ‘On the Bum in a High-Powered Ford,’ 66. It was up to Fickert, a crooked District Attorney, to ‘frame’ witnesses, ably assisted by some corrupt police officials, who, raking the slimy slums of Barbary Coast, found a sodomist, a dope fiend scab waiter, a rich-(less) cattleman, who suborned purjury, and a bleary-eyed prostitute—all easily brow-beaten by the bull-dozing police!
1929. L. A. Even. Express, 11 July, 15/5. It [‘Bloody Laughter’] is a grim play that sets aside traditions of what to some should be left unsaid and untouched, yet Toller is not a literary sodomist.
