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incestuous, a.|ɪnˈsɛstjuːəs|
Also 6–7 -teous, -tious.
[ad. L. incestuōs-us, f. incestu-s incest: see -ous; cf. F. incestueux, -euse (13th c. in. Godef.).]
1. a. Guilty of incest.
1552Abp. Hamilton Catech. (1884) 10 Incesteous personis. a1592H. Smith Wks. (1867) II. 368 Caius Caligula, that wicked and incestuous emperor. 1651C. Cartwright Cert. Relig. i. 99 The [Romish] Church reputed those, who married together after their vowes, not only for adulterers, but also for incestuous persons. 1746Collins Odes, Fear 38 Wrapt in thy cloudy veil, th' incestuous Queen Sigh'd the sad call her son and husband heard. 1855Milman Lat. Chr. iv. vi. (1864) II. 319 The sway of an incestuous female Martina.
fig.1591Sylvester Du Bartas i. iii. 520 You City-Vipers, that (incestious) joyn Use upon use, begetting Coyn of Coyn!
†b. Loosely or more vaguely: Adulterous. Obs.
1632Heywood 1st Pt. Iron Age ii. Wks. 1874 III. 291, I would not for the world, Priam should send Incestious Hellen backe on tearmes of peace. 1681S. Colvil Whigs Supplic. (1751) 30.
2. a. Of the nature of or involving incest.
1532More Confut. Tindale Wks. 394/2 These shameles heretykes liue in open shamefull incestuous lechery, and call it matrimonie. c1555Harpsfield Divorce Hen. VIII (Camden) 238 Incestuous copulation should not once be accounted under the name of marriage. 1581Marbeck Bk. of Notes 486 He openlie condemned the incestious Matrimonie of Herode with Herodias. 1625K. Long tr. Barclay's Argenis v xix. 399 The feare of the mention of such an incestuous marriage. 1766Warburton Ded. to Freethinkers Postscr., Wks. 1811 I. 182 Virtuous love, not adulterous or incestuous. 1838Thirlwall Greece xiii. II. 177 He had even trampled on the laws of Persia by an incestuous union with his sisters. 1879Green Read. Eng. Hist. vii. 33 As the new Queen was Eadwig's kinswoman, the religious opinion of the day regarded his marriage as incestuous.
†b. fig. Applied to other crimes committed between persons nearly akin. Obs.
1744Armstrong Preserv. Health iii. 536 (Seager) Her legions in incestuous murder [i.e. civil war] mix'd.
c. Fig. use of sense 2 a.
1869D. G. Rossetti Let 27 Aug. (1965) II. 727 ‘Solemn poetry’ belongs to the class of phrases absolutely forbidden I think in poetry. It is intellectually incestuous,—poetry seeking to beget its emotional offspring on its own identity. 1971Listener 2 Sept. 307/3 Systematising..the old-boy network..would almost undoubtedly exacerbate the incestuous intolerance of the present scene.
†3. Begotten of incest. Obs.
1588Allen Admon. (1842) 11 An incestuous bastard, begotten and borne in sinne, of an infamous curtesan. 1621G. Sandys Ovid's Met. x. (1626) 206 Th' incesteous infant, now at perfect groth Within the tree; indeuors to get forth. |