scortatory

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin scortātōrius, from scortātor.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /skɔːˈteɪtəɹi/

Adjective

scortatory (not comparable)

Pertaining to scortation; fornicatory, lewd.
- 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 9: Scylla and Charybdis]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC, part II [Odyssey], page 193:
  Twenty years he dallied there between conjugal love and its chaste delights and scortatory love and its foul pleasures.

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