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pantagamy|pænˈtægəmɪ| [An illiterate formation for pantogamy, f. Gr. παντο- panto- all + -γαµία, from γάµος marriage. (Pantagamy is etymologically, from Gr. ἀγαµία celibacy, ‘universal or total celibacy’.)] A communistic system of complex marriage, in which all the men and women of a household or community are regarded as married to each other, as formerly practised among the Perfectionists at Oneida Creek in U.S.
1852J. Nichol Amer. Lit. i. 20 The American mind delights in..social and political experiments, as Shakerism, Mormonism, Pantagamy. 1867Dixon New Amer. II. xxiv. heading, Pantagamy. [Ibid. 256 In the Bible Family living at Oneida Creek, the central domestic fact of the household is the complex marriage of its members to each other, and to all.] 1894Q. Rev. Oct. 311 Has not Oneida Creek invented ‘Complex Marriage’ or Pantagamy? |