单词 | bigamic |
释义 | bigamicadj. Now rare. 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 1852 D. S. Evans Eng. & Welsh Dict. Bigamic,..dwyweddogaid. 1856 A. J. Davis Great Harmonia (new ed.) IV. xii. 301 Such love is quickly inverted; it soon rejects the object of its gratification. It is alternately bigamic, polygamic, omnigamic; and believes in ‘Free Love’, in transient relations between the sexes; and identifies promiscuous intercourse with ‘freedom of the affections’. 1908 H. G. Wells Tono-Bungay (1997) i. i. 21 My errant father might suddenly and shockingly be discovered, no doubt conspicuously bigamic and altogether offensive and revolutionary. 1963 Monumenta Nipponica 17 57 The law of the country does not allow bigamic marriages. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.1852 |
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