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monogamy|məˈnɒgəmɪ|
Also 7 monogamie.
[ad. F. monogamie, ad. eccl.L. monogamia, Gr. µονογαµία, f. µονόγαµ-ος (see monogamous).]
1. The practice or principle of marrying only once, or of not remarrying after the death of the first spouse: opposed to digamy. Now rare.
1612T. Taylor Comm. Titus i. 6 The marriage of the wiues sister is forbidden by proportion euen in monogamie. 1620Bp. Hall Hon. Marr. Clergy i. xix. 106 If hee had euer read the Booke following, of Monogamie, he might have found [etc.]. 1656Blount Glossogr., Monogamie, a marrying of one onely wife all the life time. 1727–51[see 2]. 1856Macaulay Biog., Goldsm. (1860) 62 Moses and his spectacles, the Vicar and his monogamy..have caused..much harmless mirth.
2. The condition, rule, or custom of being married to only one person at a time (opposed to polygamy or bigamy); chiefly applied to the rule or custom (more explicitly called monogyny) by which a man can have only one wife, but also including monandry, the rule or custom by which a woman can have only one husband.
1708Brit. Apollo No. 82. 1/1 Monogamy is Agreeable to the Primary Intention of a Marriage-state. 1727–51Chambers Cycl., Monogamy, the state or condition of those who have only married once, or are restrained to a single wife. 1788Reid Active Powers iii. iii. vi, Suppose again, that we reason for monogamy from the intention of nature. 1869Lecky Europ. Mor. I. 107 In Rome..monogamy was firmly established. 1878K. Johnston Africa iii. 41 In Marocco Monogamy is the rule both amongst the Arabs and the Berbers. 1886Law Times LXXX. 335/2 A country where monogamy is the only legal form of marriage.
3. Zool. The habit of living in pairs, or having only one mate.
1785G. Forster tr. Sparrman's Voy. Cape G. H. II. 120 Thevenot is right when he asserts, that the ostrich lives in monogamy, or with one female. 1828Stark Elem. Nat. Hist. I. 51 These apes..live in monogamy. |