carnal knowledge
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carnal knowledge
sexual intercourse
carnal knowledge
Noun
1. the act of sexual procreation between a man and a woman; the man's penis is inserted into the woman's vagina and excited until orgasm and ejaculation occur
(synonym) sexual intercourse, intercourse, sex act, copulation, coitus, coition, sexual congress, congress, sexual relation, relation
(hypernym) sexual activity, sexual practice, sex, sex activity
(hyponym) defloration
(part-meronym) insemination
Carnal Knowledge
CARNAL KNOWLEDGE - Crim. Law. This phrase is used to signify a sexual connexion; as rape is the carnal knowledge of a woman, etc.
CARNALLY KNEW - Pleadings. This is a technical phrase essential in an indictment to charge the defendant with the crime of rape; no other word or circumlocution will answer the same purpose as these words. It has been doubted whether these words were indispensible, but it would be unsafe to omit them.
This entry contains material from Bouvier's Legal Dictionary, a work published in the 1850's.
carnal knowledge
Synonyms and related words:
act of love, adultery, aphrodisia, ass, balling, climax, cohabitation, coition, coitus, coitus interruptus, commerce, congress, connection, copula, copulation, coupling, diddling, fornication, intercourse, intimacy, lovemaking, making it with, marital relations, marriage act, mating, meat, onanism, orgasm, ovum, pareunia, procreation, relations, screwing, sex, sex act, sexual climax, sexual commerce, sexual congress, sexual intercourse, sexual relations, sexual union, sleeping with, sperm, venery
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CARNAL KNOWLEDGE
CONGIUNZIONE CARNALE