Definition of Paederast

1. Noun. A man who has sex (usually sodomy) with a boy as the passive partner.

Exact synonyms: Child Molester, Pederast
Generic synonyms: Degenerate, Deviant, Deviate, Pervert
Derivative terms: Paederastic, Pederastic

Definition of Paederast

1. Noun. (British spelling) (alternative spelling of pederast) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Paederast

padshahs
paduak
paduasoies
paduasoy
paduasoys
paducahs
paean
paeanism
paeanisms
paeans
paecilomyces
paeciloycosis
paedagogic
paedagogical
paedantry
paederast (current term)
paederastic
paederasts
paederasty
paediatric
paediatric arthritis
paediatric dentistry
paediatric nursing
paediatric radiology
paediatrician
paediatricians
paediatrics
paediatrist

Literary usage of Paederast

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Secreted Desires: The Major Uranians by Michael Matthew Kaylor (2006)
"A title like 'The Holy paederast' reveals that a tropos could be and was assigned — even if only to ..."

2. The Ante-Nicene Fathers: Translations of the Writings of the Fathers Down to by Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson, Arthur Cleveland Coxe, Bernhard Pick, Ernest Cushing Richardson, Allan Menzies (1886)
"... as an adulterer, and as a sorcerer,5 and as a paederast ! Read to the sovereign of the gods, O men of Greece, the law concerning parricide, ..."

3. Pahlavi Texts by Edward William West (1882)
"... l (' paederast'), the male by whom the use of females was first brought among the errors ..."

4. Ante-Nicene Christian Library: Translations of the Writings of the Fathers by James Donaldson, Alexander Roberts (1867)
"i But must not those who arc spectators of single combats and are partisans on one side or the other, and he who marries and is a paederast and an adulterer ..."

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