单词 | conjugal |
释义 | conjugaladj. 1. Of or relating to marriage, matrimonial. conjugal rights: the rights, especially to sexual relations, regarded as exercisable in law by each partner in a marriage. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > [adjective] matrimonial1449 yoked1531 conjugal1545 geniala1547 marriageable1597 married1598 hymeneal1602 marital1603 hymenean1606 weddeda1616 matrimonious1645 connubial1656 gamical1660 hymenial1710 1545 G. Joye Expos. Daniel (xii.) f. 217v He shall set naught by ye god of his fathers, nether shall he regarde the coniugale loue in wedlok. a1626 L. Andrewes Serm. (1631) I. 9 Whereby He and we become..‘one flesh’ as man and wife do by conjugal union. 1644 J. Milton tr. M. Bucer Ivdgem. conc. Divorce 11 Matrimony and divorce are civil things. Which the Christian Emperours knowing, gave conjugal laws. 1682 T. D'Urfey Butler's Ghost 12 Upon bare Hopes I would be frugal, And enter into Bonds Conjugal. 1709 J. Strype Ann. Reformation iii. 80 To countenance the conjugal state of her clergy. 1848 J. J. S. Wharton Law Lexicon Conjugal rights, the privilege which husband and wife have of each other's society, comfort, and affection. 1875 P. G. Hamerton Intellect. Life (ed. 2) vii. iii. 240 Essential to the conjugal life. 2. Of or relating to a married couple in their relation to each other. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > married person > [adjective] > relating to a husband or wife conjugal?1550 connubiala1845 ?1550 J. Bale Apol. agaynste Papyst 64 (R.) That some men voweth coniugall chastyte, or faythfull clennesse in marryage. 1653 I. Walton Compl. Angler i. 25 The hearing of such conjugal faithfulness will be Musick to all chaste ears. View more context for this quotation 1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall III. 259 If he had not been restrained by conjugal tenderness. 1834 T. B. Macaulay William Pitt in Ess. (1851) 292 Conjugal fidelity. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online March 2018). < |
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