a. [f. L. Sodomītic-us (cf. prec.) + -AL.]
1. Of persons: Guilty of, committing or practising sodomy.
1546. Supplic. Poore Commons (E.E.T.S.), 75. The outragiouse belowing of a sorte of sodomiticall buls.
1550. Bale, Eng. Votaries, I. (1560), 4 b. That Sodomiticall swarme or brode of Antichrist.
1605. M. Sutcliffe, Brief Exam., 53. Enemies to all lecherous and Sodomiticall Friars.
1667. Termes de la Ley, 407. By the Common Law … sodomiticall persons, and hereticks, should be burnt.
1687. Shadwell, Tenth Sat. Juvenal, 49. A filthy Sodomitical Schoolmaster.
† b. With whom sodomy is committed. Obs.
a. 1555. Bradford, Hurt of Hearing Mass (1558), D j b. So are the hartes of our popishe protestaunts … hardened … in that they looke, yea, go backe agayne to theyr sodomiticall minion.
1612. Trav. Four Englishm., 83. If they haue no beards at all, they call them (if they be yong) … Sodomiticall boyes.
1634. Sir T. Herbert, Trav., 87. Hither sometimes the King repaires, and sees the Sodomiticall Boyes and Wenches dance.
2. Of the nature of, characterized by, consisting in, or involving sodomy.
1550. Bale, Eng. Votaries, II. 21 b. Their sodomytycal chastyte agaynst Gods fre instytucyon.
1588. A. King, trans. Canisius’ Catech., 149. Quhat is writtin of ye Sodomiticall sinne.
1629. L. O[wen], Spec. Jesuiticum, 26. Wherein hee shewed his Sodomiticall affection, and diabolicall desire.
1645. E. Pagitt, Heresiogr. (1661), 225. Their Idolatries and Sodomitical uncleanness they will defend and maintain.
1700. T. Brown, trans. Fresny’s Amusem. Ser. & Com., 31. To carry on a Sodomitical Intrigue.
1762. Gentl. Mag., 386. A clergyman … convicted for a Sodomitical attempt.
1864. trans. Caspar’s Forensic Med., III. 336, note. In regard to the question whether such a sodomitical coitus could have taken place.
† 3. Of places, institutions, etc.: Polluted or infected by sodomy. Obs.
1550. Bale, Apol., 19 b. Than were they allowed for a spyrytuall religion in that Sodomiticall churche of Antichrist.
1572. R. T., Discourse, 39. The Church of Christ is holy Hierusalem: The Popes is adulterous Babylon, and Sodomitical Rome.
1600. O. E. (M. Sutcliffe), Repl. Libel, II. ii. 32. To creepe into a Sodomiticall cloister of monkes.
1632. W. Lithgow, Trav., II. 76. If all the Priests … were thus handled…, what a sea of Sodomiticall irreligious blood would ouerflow the halfe of Europe.
Hence Sodomitically adv.; Sodomiticalness.
1601. W. Parry, Trav. Sir A. Sherley (1863), 41. Which if he wanted hee would hire a boy sodomitically to use.
1677. W. Hughes, Man of Sin, II. xii. 232. Two Noble youths … being Sodomitically abused by this Infernal Goat.
1718. Prideaux, Connex. O. & N. T., II. II. 74. Agathocles, being Sodomitically given, fell in love with a beautiful young Man.
1727. Bailey (vol. II.), Sodomiticalness, Guiltiness of Sodomy.
