2. (Script.) (a) Adultery. (b) Incest. (c) Idolatry.

For"ni*ca`tor (?), n. [F. fornicateur, OF. fornicator, from L.

fornicator.] An unmarried person, male or female, who has criminal

intercourse with the other sex; one guilty of fornication.

For"ni*ca`tress (?), n. [Cf. F. fornicatrice, L. fornicatrix.] A woman

guilty of fornication. Shak.

||For"nix (?), n.; pl. Fornices (#). [L., an arch.] (Anat.) (a) An arch

||or fold; as, the fornix, or vault, of the cranium; the fornix, or

||reflection, of the conjuctiva. (b) Esp., two longitudinal bands of

||white nervous tissue beneath the lateral ventricles of the brain.

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