单词 | concubinary |
释义 | concubinaryadj.n. 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. 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). < adj.n.1570 |
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