bigamistn.
/ˈbɪɡəmɪst/, U.S. /ˈbɪɡəməst/ 1. A man or woman guilty of bigamy (bigamy n. 1).
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > types of marriage custom or practice > [noun] > polygamy > bigamy > one who
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1633 J. Done in tr. ‘Aristeas’ Aunc. Hist. Septuagint sig. N7 v Lamech, the prime Bigamist and corrupter of Marriage.
1730 W. Forbes Inst. Law Scotl. II. i. 120 Punishment may be inflicted upon Bigamists, whose Marriage is contracted, with a design to palliate Adultery.
1794 Anecd. Recorded by Police of Paris 37 Cremille..boxes the bigamist's ears.
1840 W. M. Thackeray Paris Sketch Bk. II. 255 Old La Vauballière..was a bigamist.
1865 Pall Mall Gaz. 10 Feb. 5/2 The swindler bigamist or quadrigamist, we forget the precise number of his marriages.
1948 C. Rice Big Midget Murders xiii. 111 He told me I was a bigamist, because the night I'd gone out with him we'd gotten married, only I'd been plastered and hadn't known it.
1995 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 22 June 32/4 Since she died before his third marriage..he cannot be called a trigamist—only once and possibly twice a bigamist.
2007 Mirror (Nexis) 7 Aug. 26 Britain's first lesbian bigamist escaped jail yesterday.
2. Ecclesiastical Law. A man or woman who has remarried after being widowed. See bigamy n. 2. Now historical.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > remarriage > [noun] > one who remarries or upholds remarriage
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1656 T. Blount Glossographia Bigamist, he that hath marryed two wives.]
1658 J. Bramhall Schisme Garded i. vi. 127 The Bishop of Rome by a constitution made at the Councell of Lions, excluded Bigamists (men twice Married) from the Privilege of Clergy.
1726 J. Ayliffe Parergon Juris Canonici Anglicani 116 Much less can a Bigamist have such a Benefice.
1779 W. Alexander Hist. Women II. xxix. 273 In the year 743, all the canons against marriage seem to have been totally disregarded, as we find, that even those who were bigamists, or had married widows, might be promoted to sacred orders.
1806 J. Lingard Antiq. Anglo-Saxon Church II. vii. 24 The bigamist, though he were a widower..was excluded..from the rank of bishop.
1936 Eng. Hist. Rev. 51 217 The law which deprived the bigamist of benefit of clergy was a canon of the second Council of Lyons.
2005 D. d'Avray Medieval Marriage iii. 166 Pedro Martorel of Barcelona was only a double bigamist... He had married a virgin after becoming a widower, then after her death he had married a widow.
Derivatives
bigaˈmistic adj.
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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
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1834 Fraser's Mag. 9 332 He had actually gone through a bigamistic sham with her.
1931 H. E. Bucholz Fads & Fallacies in Present-Day Educ. iv. 68 A parent who dares complain because his offspring is not learning to read, write, and cipher, is treated like a bigamistic stepfather.
1987 L. L. Panek Introd. Detective Story v. 56 Lady Audley has another woman buried as Helen Talboys in order to keep George off of her bigamistic track.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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