sodomise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɒdəmaɪz/
Forms: form: sodomises
form: sodomising
form: sodomised
form: sodomised
form: sodomize
Etymology: From sodomy + -ise.
Senses: examples: text: Propose to scourge the diabolic flesh,
For ever tortured and for ever fresh;
Cut up with red-hot wire adulterous Queens,
Man-burning Bishops, Sodomizing Deans;
ref: 1820, George Colman, The Rodiad, London: Cadell, page 35:
text: Young Tyler was sent off to English boarding school at an early age to be sodomized and otherwise inculcated into the British establishment.
ref: 1999, Christopher Buckley, chapter 2, in Little Green Men, New York: Random House, page 20:
text: […] some men also found that it [amyl nitrite] relaxed their anal sphincters, enabling them more comfortably to be sodomised.
ref: 2001, Richard Davenport-Hines, chapter 5, in The Pursuite of Oblivion: A Global History of Narcotics, 1500-2000, London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, page 102:
text: 2016, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Birth of a Dream Weaver, New York and London: The New Press, Chapter 6, pp. 85-86,
There are only a few whispers here and there, and sometimes one or two who are so crazed by the experience that they talk—of torture […] but they don’t give details. […] Men too, sodomized with bottles; some, their testicles crushed, nor can they talk about it, except when the “craziness” overtakes them.
synonyms: bugger
glosses: To engage in sodomy with (someone); to engage in anal (or, rarely, oral) sex as the penetrator (especially without consent).
examples: text: The donkey was bellowing because the Two-Time Kid […] was in the process of sodomizing it, and even for a docile donkey, there are limits.
ref: 1975, Salman Rushdie, Grimus, St. Albans: Granada, published 1977, Part 2, Chapter 39, p. 160:
glosses: To engage in sexual intercourse with (an animal), to engage in bestiality.
examples: text: Suppose a Devill from th’infernall Pit,
More Monsterlike, then ere was Devill yet,
Contrary to course, taking a male fiend
To Sodomize with him, such was the mind
Of this Lord Bishop,
ref: 1641, anonymous author, The Life and Death of John Atherton Lord Bishop of Waterford and Lysmore, London:
text: Our Spartan in his early twenties has for some years had a male lover, and they sodomize together.
ref: 1968, Colin Simpson, chapter 7, in Greece: The Unclouded Eye, New York: Fielding Publications, page 229:
glosses: To commit sodomy; to engage in anal sex.
examples: text: Well, he’d been wrong, hadn’t he […] thought Dover, reducing speed to avoid sodomizing an articulated truck which had decided to leap into the centre lane.
ref: 1980, Colin Smith, chapter 3, in The Cut-Out, New York: Viking, published 1981, page 19:
text: 1986, Hanif Kureishi, The Rainbow Sign in My Beautiful Laundrette and The Rainbow Sign, London: Faber and Faber, Chapter 2, p. 18,
‘I tell you, this country is being sodomized by religion. It is even beginning to interfere with the making of money. […] ’
text: […] she looked around the empty rooms and faced, and knew, and ate, and got rightly sodomised by, her shame.
ref: 2002, Anne Enright, The Pleasure of Eliza Lynch, London: Vintage, published 2003, page 57:
glosses: To cause great humiliation or harm to (someone or something); to cause great damage to (something, especially from behind).
examples: text: 1601, W. I., The Whipping of Satyre, London: John Flasket, “The Pilgrims Story,”
For if this Land be Sodomiz’d with sinne,
It’s not your lots to be at Lots therein.
text: The depravity of manners, the scandalous indecency and obscenity of Lincoln’s own daily conversation [i.e. lifestyle], seems to have fallen like a fatal epidemic upon the people. He has Sodomized the nation.
ref: 1864 September, “What will come of re-electing Lincoln”, in The Old Guard, volume 2, number 9, page 199:
text: 1865, John Langdon Dudley, Discourse Preached in the South Congregational Church, Middletown, Ct., Middletown: D. Barnes, p. 12,
An inspiration that is infernal enough to organize a conspiracy to overthrow this government, for the purpose of establishing on its ruins the odious and sodomizing empire of Slavery, is bad enough, and mean enough, to be a cowardly assassin.
glosses: To cause (a community) to resemble the proverbially sinful biblical city of Sodom.
examples: 1657, John Cragge, A Cabinet of Spirituall Jewells, London: H. Twyford et al., “Of the Expediency of Marriage,” p. 170,
[…] Corah and his complices sodomized in a new Asphaltic gulph, for counter-censuring Moses and Aaron;
1659, Christopher Clobery, Divine Glimpses of a Maiden Muse, London: James Cottrel, “The Charge,” pp. 141-142,
[…] daring impudence!
Enough to make Heaven blush at the offence,
And pour down thunder-bolts of indignation,
To root for ever hence our Name and Nation,
To puff us off like th’atoms of a feather,
And Sodomize us into Hell together.
glosses: To cause to be swallowed up or buried (like the biblical city of Sodom, as a punishment).
Derived terms: sodomization
sodomizer