英语词汇“concubinary”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组、英语词典-本地帮

单词

concubinary

释义

concubinary, a. and n.|kənˈkjuːbɪnərɪ|
[ad. med.L. concubīnāri-us, f. concubīna: see below and -ary. Cf. F. concubinaire (16th c. in Littré).]
A. adj. Relating to concubinage; (of persons) living in, or sprung from, concubinage.
1563–87Foxe A. & M. 1074 (R.) The first crime of these concubinarie priests.1661Morgan Sph. Gentry i. iv. 43 His concubinary lying with Venus in Ovid.1737L. Clarke Hist. Bible (1740) I. i. 39 Sarai..prevailed with her husband to take her handmaid Hagar to be his concubinary wife.1861Sir F. Palgrave Norm. & Eng. III. 17 According to the Civil law..a subsequent marriage legitimates all the previous concubinary issue.1888H. C. Lea Hist. Inquis. I. 63 The married or concubinary priesthood.
fig.a1659Osborn Observ. Turks (1673) 330 Italy..need not be concubinary to so many wanton desires of Strangers, would all her small and new-hatched Governments shelter themselves under her Wings.
B. n. One who lives in concubinage.
15..Alleg. agst. 6 Articles in Foxe A. & M. 1064 (R.) Take from the church honourable marriage and the bed vndefiled, shalt thou not replenishe it with concubinaries, with incestuous persons, etc.a1667Jer. Taylor Serm. I. vi. (R.), The Holy Ghost will not descend upon the simonical unchaste concubinaries, schismaticks and scandalous priests.1875Gladstone Vaticanism 124 It is the duty of each concubinary (or party to concubinage), with or without the consent of the other party, to quit that guilty state.

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