Obs. Forms: α. 6–7 sodomitrie, -itry, 6 -itrye, sodomytrie. β. 6 sodometrye, 6–7 -etrie, -etry. [f. SODOMITE + -RY, Cf. OF. sodomiterie.]
1. = SODOMY 1. (Common c. 1540–c. 1650.)
α. 1530. Tindale, Answ. More, III. xiii. It … permitteth to abuse men’s wives, and suffereth sodomitry.
a. 1533. Frith, Answ. More (1548), C vj b. The shamfull sodomitrye of the Trybe of Beniamin.
1577. Vautroullier, Luther on Ep. Gal., 229. Simonie,… voluptuousnes, whoredom, sodomitrie and such other infinite abominations.
1634. Sir T. Herbert, Trav., 196. The women are not ashamed here (the easier to illure the men from Sodomitry) to goe naked.
1673. R. Head, Canting Acad., K 7. Johannes à Casa … writ a Book in praise of the abominable vice of Sodomitry.
β. 1538. Bale, Three Lawes, Pref. 23. Corrupteth with ydolles, and stynkynge Sodometry.
1585. T. Washington, trans. Nicholay’s Voy., I. viii. 8. Whoredome, sodometrie, theft, and all other … vices.
1614. Boys, Wks. (1630), 256. If there were no stewes, all the world would be full of adulterie, rape, Sodometrie.
1655. Fuller, Ch. Hist., III. 19. That the sin of Sodometry … should be punished with heavy Censures.
2. = SODOMY 2.
1592. Timme, Eng. Lepers, D iij. All offences, even to murthers, incests, Sodomitries, were taxed.
1606. Rep. Disc. Supreme Power, 49. The blasphemies, the adulteries, the Sodometries … of diuers other Bishops of Rome.
