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Copulate   /kˈɑpjəlˌeɪt/   Listen
verb
Copulate  v. i.  (past & past part. copulated; pres. part. copulating)  To unite in sexual intercourse; to come together in the act of generation.


adjective
Copulate  adj.  
1.
Joined; associated; coupled. (Obs.)
2.
(Gram.) Joining subject and predicate; copulative.





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"Copulate" Quotes from Famous Books



... even that in the former; because we not only observe, that men always seek society, but can also explain the principles, on which this universal propensity is founded. For is it more certain, that two flat pieces of marble will unite together, than that two young savages of different sexes will copulate? Do the children arise from this copulation more uniformly, than does the parents care for their safety and preservation? And after they have arrived at years of discretion by the care of their parents, are the inconveniencies attending their separation more certain than their foresight of these ...
— A Treatise of Human Nature • David Hume
... is distinctly Polyphemus; but the East had giants and cyclopes of her own (Hierozoicon ii. 845). The Ajaib al-Hind (chapt. cxxii.) makes Polyphemus copulate with the sheep. Sir John Mandeville (if such person ever existed) mentions men fifty feet high in the Indian Islands; and Al-Kazwini and Al- Idrisi transfer them to the Sea of China, a Botany ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 6 • Richard F. Burton
... interstitial or Leydig's cells. The vaginal opening in rats disappeared, partly or completely. The sexual instincts became male, the animals recognised a female in heat from one that was not, and attempted to copulate. ...
— Hormones and Heredity • J. T. Cunningham
... well take the ply; except it be in some minds, that have not suffered themselves to fix, but have kept themselves open, and prepared to receive continual amendment, which is exceeding rare. But if the force of custom simple and separate, be great, the force of custom copulate and conjoined and collegiate, is far greater. For there example teacheth, company comforteth, emulation quickeneth, glory raiseth: so as in such places the force of custom is in his exaltation. Certainly the great multiplication ...
— Essays - The Essays Or Counsels, Civil And Moral, Of Francis Ld. - Verulam Viscount St. Albans • Francis Bacon


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