单词 | levirate |
释义 | leviraten. a. The custom among the Jews and some other nations, by which the brother or next of kin to a deceased man was bound under certain circumstances to marry the widow. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > remarriage > [noun] > levirate or sororate levirate1725 leviration1815 sororate1910 1725 T. Lewis Origines Hebrææ III. 268 The Law of Levirate. 1783 T. Wilson Archæol. Dict. Levirate. 1842 W. H. Mill Observ. Applic. Pantheistic Princ. iii. 193 Reasoning from the spirit of the law of levirate, as concerning only succession to property. 1870 J. Lubbock Origin of Civilisation (ed. 2) iii. 69 The next stage was..that form of polyandry in which brothers had their wives in common; afterwards came that of the levirate. 1883 H. S. Maine Diss. Early Law & Custom iv. 100 An institution..known commonly as the Levirate, but called by the Hindus, in its more general form, the Niyoga. b. attributive passing into adj. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > remarriage > [adjective] > levirate or sororate leviratical1849 levirate1865 sororatic1952 1865 tr. E. Renan Life of Jesus xvii. 203 The Mosaic code had consecrated this patriarchal theory by a strange institution, the levirate law. 1879 F. W. Farrar Life & Work St. Paul I. iv. xv. 264 The law of levirate marriage might be set aside if [etc.]. Derivatives leviˈratic adj. leviˈratical adj. pertaining to or in accordance with the levirate. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > remarriage > [adjective] > levirate or sororate leviratical1849 levirate1865 sororatic1952 1849 H. Alford Greek Test. I. 159 [Matt. xxii. 24] The firstborn son of a leviratical marriage was reckoned..as the son of the deceased brother. leviˈration n. leviratical marriage. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > remarriage > [noun] > levirate or sororate levirate1725 leviration1815 sororate1910 1815 in J. Allen Mod. Judaism (1816) 415 (note) The design of the precept of leviration was [etc.]. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1902; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1725 |
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