ETYMOLOGY
from Latin meretricat-, past participial stem of meretricari (to frequent a prostitute; later, to play the whore),
from Latin meretrīc- (a prostitute)
EXAMPLE
They meretricated in Egypt; they meretricated in their youth.
(Taken from Ezekiel 23, replacing ‘played the whore’ with meretricated)
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