condum

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English

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Noun

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condum (plural condums)

  1. Obsolete spelling of condom.
    • 1867, Jefferson B. Fancher, Medical, Matrimonial, and Scientific Expositor, page 434:
      These are an improvement on the ordinary French male safe, condum, sheath, or envelope.
    • 1875, “Chronic Inflammation of the Prostate Gland”, in The Eclectic medical journal of Pennsylvania, volume 13, numbers 11-12, page 239:
      [] from the wearing of condums during sexual congress; sedentary habits; reading improper literature.
    • 1880, The Epitome: A Monthly Retrospect of American Practical Medicine and Surgery:
      I then thought of using an ordinary condum in the same manner as we use the rubber bag in uterine hemorrhage.

Latin

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Noun

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condum

  1. accusative singular of condus

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