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▪ I. celibate, n.1 arch.|ˈsɛlɪbeɪt|
Also 7 cælibate, cælibat.
[ad. F. célibat, ad. L. cælibātus: see above.]
State of celibacy; order of celibates.
1614J. King Vitis Palat. 21 Solitude and celibate, a single monasticke life agreeath not to it. 1673Ray Journ. Low C., Malta 319 Hildebrand..the great introducer of the Celibate of Priests. a1711Ken Edmund Poet. Wks. 1721 II. 238 Despairing, I in Celibate would live. 1869J. Rogers Antipapopr. xv. §1 Has taken care of the celibate of the clergy. 1874H. Reynolds John Bapt. iii. §2. 183.
fig.1862Merivale Rom. Emp. (1865) V. xlii. 173 The long celibate of German intelligence may seem designed by a superior Wisdom to crown it with inexhaustible fertility.
Hence celiˈbatic a., of or pertaining to celibacy; ˈcelibatist, a professed supporter of celibacy; ˈcelibatory (rare) = celibatarian.
1881Echo 11 Apr. 1/6 The remnant of ‘celibatic superstition’ which even now hangs around some of our academical establishments. 1885J. C. Jeaffreson Real Shelley I. 20 Compensation for the loss of celibatic freedom. 1829Blackw. Mag. XXVI. 758 Elizabeth..was herself a celibatist. 1841L. Hunt Seer ii. (1864) 5 A lone lodger, a celibatory.
▪ II. celibate, a. and n.2|ˈsɛlɪbət|
[f. L. cælib-em unmarried + -ate (not on L. analogy): see -ate2 2.]
A. adj. Unmarried, single; bound not to marry.
1829Southey Lett. (1856) IV. 148 If celibate, to lay by sufficient for his old age. 1863J. M. Ludlow Sisterhood in Gd. Words 493 The celibate girls..would scarcely fail to become..a community. 1868M. Pattison Academ. Org. §5. 205 The present anomalous position of the celibate tutor-fellow. 1882Farrar Early Chr. I. 505 He [Jesus] never breathed one word to exalt the celibate over the wedded life.
B. n. One who leads a single life, a confirmed bachelor or spinster; one bound not to marry.
1869J. Martineau Ess. II. 26 The proof may be very convincing to celibates. 1879Farrar St. Paul II. 619 App., An order of female celibates or youthful nuns.
Hence ˈcelibateness, ˈcelibateship, = celibacy.
1775in Ash.
▪ III. ˈcelibate, v. nonce-wd.
[f. prec.]
trans. To restrain from marriage, compel to celibacy.
1659Evelyn Gold. Bk. St. Chrysostom Misc. Writ. 114 That thou shouldst cœlibat him..and make him a monk. |