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单词 concubinary
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concubinaryadj.n.

/kənˈkjuːbɪnəri/
Etymology: < medieval Latin concubīnārius, < concubīna : see concubine n. and -ary suffix1. Compare French concubinaire (16th cent. in Littré).
A. adj.
Relating to concubinage; (of persons) living in, or sprung from, concubinage.
ΘΚΠ
society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > types of marriage custom or practice > [adjective] > relating to or practising concubinage
in (also of, on) purchasea1400
concubinary1570
concubinal1656
concubinarian1838
1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) II. 1345/1 Ye first crime of these concubinarie priestes.
1661 S. Morgan Sphere of Gentry i. iv. 43 His concubinary lying with Venus in Ovid.
1737 L. Clarke Compl. Hist. Bible I. i. 39 Sarai..prevail'd with her Husband to take her Handmaid Hagar to be his Concubinary Wife.
a1861 F. Palgrave Hist. Normandy & Eng. (1864) III. 17 According to the Civil law..a subsequent marriage legitimates all the previous concubinary issue.
1887 H. C. Lea Hist. Inquisition Middle Ages I. ii. 63 The married or concubinary priesthood.
figurative.a1659 F. Osborne Observ. Turks (1673) 330 Italy..need not be concubinary to so many wanton desires of Strangers, would all her small and new-hatched Governments shelter themselves under her Wings.
B. n.
One who lives in concubinage.
ΘΚΠ
society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > types of marriage custom or practice > [noun] > concubinage or secondary marriage > one who lives in
concubinary1570
1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) II. 1334/1 Take from the Church honourable mariage, and the bedde vndefiled, shalt thou not replenishe it with Concubinaries, with incestuous persons, [etc.].
a1667 Bp. J. Taylor Serm. I. vi. (R.) The Holy Ghost will not descend upon the simonical unchaste concubinaries, schismaticks and scandalous priests.
1875 W. E. Gladstone Vaticanism 124 It is the duty of each concubinary (or party to concubinage), with or without the consent of the other party, to quit that guilty state.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
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