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单词 bigame
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bigamen.adj.

Forms: Middle English bigam, Middle English–1500s bygame.
Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French bigame; Latin bigamus.
Etymology: < (i) Anglo-Norman and Middle French bigame bigamous, (as noun) bigamist (14th cent. or earlier in Anglo-Norman; 13th cent. in Old French in senses ‘married a second time’, ‘married to a widow’; French bigame ), and its etymon (ii) post-classical Latin bigamus (adjective) having two wives, married a second time (5th cent.; from 7th cent. in British sources), married to a widow (14th cent. in British sources), (noun) man who marries a second time (8th cent.), man who marries a widow (11th cent.), man who has two wives at the same time (15th cent.) < classical Latin bi- bi- comb. form + post-classical Latin -gamus (see -gamous comb. form). Compare bigamus adj.
Obsolete.
A. n.
A bigamist.
ΘΚΠ
society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > remarriage > [noun] > one who remarries or upholds remarriage
bigamea1325
digamite1625
digamist1656
bigamist1658
deuterogamist1766
a1325 Statutes of Realm (2011) xxi. 80 Of bigames, wuche þe lord Pope in þe conseil at Londone priuede of clerges priuilegie þoru þis constitucion [etc.].
c1456 R. Pecock Bk. Faith (Trin. Cambr.) (1909) 278 (MED) Poul ordeynyd a bigam to not be deken or preest.
B. adj.
Bigamous.
ΘΚΠ
society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > types of marriage custom or practice > [adjective] > relating to or practising polygamy > relating to or practising bigamy
bigamea1400
bigamusa1425
bigamous1671
bigamistic1834
bigamic1852
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 1528 Þare fader [sc. Lamech] was þe first o liue Þat bigam was wit dubul vijfe [a1400 Fairf. þat bigan haue double wyue].
a1492 W. Caxton tr. Vitas Patrum (1495) i. cxvii. f. cxl/1 In the sayd cite was a man bygame.
1502 tr. Ordynarye of Crysten Men (de Worde) iv. xxi. sig. z.iiii v Yf he were..excommunycate, bygame, illegittime.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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