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polygamic, a.|pɒlɪˈgæmɪk|
[f. late Gr. πολύγαµος often married, polygamous + -ic. So F. polygamique.]
Of or pertaining to polygamy; (less correctly) practising polygamy, polygamous.
1819Shelley P. Bell Prol. 36 He was an evil Cotter, And a polygamic Potter. 1882Athenæum 23 Sept. 393/1 Umpengula's account of the [Zulu] law of heritage in polygamic households. 1884J. W. Barclay in 19th Cent. Jan. 183 Governor Murray lays comparatively little stress on the polygamic difficulty.
So polyˈgamical a.; polyˈgamically adv., in the way of polygamy.
1819Metropolis II. 156 With every polygamical inclination, neither of his present wives seem to claim him. 1863Dickens Uncomm. Trav. xx, To suppose the family groups of whom the majority of emigrants were composed, polygamically possessed, would be to suppose an absurdity. 1914Chesterton Flying Inn 69 Why should you shrink then, ladies, from this great polygamical experiment? |