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To have mutual communication or intercourse by conservation. [Scot.]

To forbid; to prohibit or debar; as, to interdict intercourse with foreign nations. Charged not to touch the interdicted tree. Milton.

Between or among nations; pertaining to the intercourse of nations; participated in by two or more nations; common to, or affecting, two or more nations.

The state or principles of international interests and intercourse.

Pertaining to the mutual intercourse or relations of persons in society; social.

Sexual intercourse; -- usually preceded by carnal; as, carnal knowledge.

ot only by the same laws and the same government, but by all the facilities of commodious intercourse, and of frequent communication. Eustace.

U. S.] -- To live with. (a) To dwell or to be a lodger with. (b) To cohabit with; to have intercourse with, as male with female.

A man who has not had sexual intercourse. [Obs.] Christ was a maid and shapen as a man. Chaucer.

An unmarried woman; a girl or woman who has not experienced sexual intercourse; a virgin; a maid. She employed the residue of her life to repairing of highways, building of bridges, and endowing of maidens. Carew. A maiden of our century, yet most meek. Tennyson.

d a pure, sublime, and wholly disinterested devotion, and maintained that they had direct intercourse with the divine Spirit, and aquired a knowledge of God and of spiritual things unattainable by the natural intellect, and such as can not be analyzed or explained.

their people, parents and their children, there is so great a necessitude, propriety, and intercourse of nature. Jer. Taylor.

To hold intercourse respecting a treaty, league, or convention; to treat with, respecting peace or commerce; to conduct communications or conferences. He that negotiates between God and man Is God's ambassador. Cowper.

The transaction of business between nations; the mutual intercourse of governments by diplomatic agents, in making treaties, composing difference, etc.; as, the negotiations at Ghent. An important negotiation with foreign powers. Macaulay.

Apropriate to the relation of neighbors; having frequent or familiar intercourse; kind; civil; social; friendly. -- adv.

To have sexual intercourse with. [Obs.] Nares.

In modern diplomacy, opportunity for political and commercial intercourse open to all upon equal terms, esp. with reference to a nation whose policy is wholly or partially fixed by nations foreign to itself, or to territory newly acquired by a conquering nation. In this sense, often used adjectively, as, open-door syst…

of turgescence of any organ; erethism; esp., the height of venereal excitement in sexual intercourse.

eccentric person. Piece of ass vulgar term for a woman, considered as a partner in sexual intercourse

der ceremonially unclean; to disqualify or unfit for sacred use or service, or for social intercourse. Neither shall ye pollute the holy things of the children of Israel, lest ye die. Num. xviii. 32. They have polluted themselves with blood. Lam. iv. 14.