Definition of "coition" [co•i•tion]

• Sexual intercourse. (noun)

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• "It here means the art of moving in coition, which is especially affected, even by modest women, throughout the East and they have many books teaching the genial art."
• "The essence of the “retaining art” is to avoid over-tension of the muscles and to pre-occupy the brain: hence in coition Hindus will drink sherbet, chew betel-nut and even smoke."
• "It is calculated that the French of the sixteenth century had four hundred names for the parts genital and three hundred for their use in coition."