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单词 celibate
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celibaten.1

/ˈsɛlɪbeɪt/
Forms: Also 1600s cælibate, cælibat.
Etymology: < French célibat, < Latin cælibātus : see celibacy n.
archaic.
State of celibacy; order of celibates.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > unmarried person(s) > [noun] > by choice > state or condition of
chastity?c1225
celibate1614
celibacy1663
1614 Bp. J. King Vitis Palatina 21 Solitude and celibate, a single monasticke life agreeath not to it.
1673 J. Ray Observ. Journey Low-countries 319 Hildebrand..the great introducer of the Celibate of Priests.
a1711 T. Ken Edmund in Wks. (1721) II. ix. 238 Despairing, I in Celibate would live.
1839 J. Rogers Antipopopriestian xv. §1 Has taken care of the celibate of the clergy.
1874 H. R. Reynolds John the Baptist iii. §2. 183.
figurative.1856 C. Merivale Hist. Romans under Empire V. xlii. 54 The long celibate of German intelligence may seem designed by a superior Wisdom to crown it with inexhaustible fertility.

Derivatives

celiˈbatic adj. of or pertaining to celibacy.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > unmarried person(s) > [adjective] > by choice > relating to or involving condition of
sole1553
celibatarian1840
celibatic1881
1881 Echo 11 Apr. 1/6 The remnant of ‘celibatic superstition’ which even now hangs around some of our academical establishments.
1885 J. C. Jeaffreson Real Shelley I. 20 Compensation for the loss of celibatic freedom.
ˈcelibatist n. a professed supporter of celibacy.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > unmarried person(s) > [noun] > by choice
agamist1570
celibatist1829
celibatory1841
celibatarian1863
celibate1869
1829 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 26 758 Elizabeth..was herself a celibatist.
ˈcelibatory n. rare = celibatarian n.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > unmarried person(s) > [noun] > by choice
agamist1570
celibatist1829
celibatory1841
celibatarian1863
celibate1869
1841 L. Hunt Seer (1864) ii. 5 A lone lodger, a celibatory.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

celibateadj.n.2

/ˈsɛlɪbət/
Etymology: < Latin caelib-em unmarried + -ate suffix2 2 (not on Latin analogy): see -ate suffix2 2.
A. adj.
Unmarried, single; bound not to marry.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > unmarried person(s) > [adjective] > by choice
chastec1315
unmarrying1722
celibate1827
unmating1857
1827 R. Southey Select. from Lett. (1856) IV. 148 If celibate, to lay by sufficient for his old age.
1863 J. M. Ludlow Sisterhoods in Good Words 493 The celibate girls..would scarcely fail to become..a community.
1868 M. Pattison Suggestions Acad. Organisation §5. 205 The present anomalous position of the celibate tutor-fellow.
1882 F. W. Farrar Early Days Christianity I. 505 He [Jesus] never breathed one word to exalt the celibate over the wedded life.
B. n.2
One who leads a single life, a confirmed bachelor or spinster; one bound not to marry.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > unmarried person(s) > [noun] > by choice
agamist1570
celibatist1829
celibatory1841
celibatarian1863
celibate1869
1869 J. Martineau Ess. Philos. & Theol. 2nd Ser. 26 The proof may be very convincing to celibates.
1879 F. W. Farrar Life & Work St. Paul II. App. ix. 619 An order of female celibates or youthful nuns.

Derivatives

ˈcelibateness n. = celibacy n.
ˈcelibateship n. = celibacy n.
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1775 in J. Ash New Dict. Eng. Lang.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online March 2018).

celibatev.

Etymology: < celibate n.1Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈcelibate.
transitive. To restrain from marriage, compel to celibacy.Apparently an isolated use.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > unmarried person(s) > restrain from matrimony [verb (transitive)]
celibate1659
1659 J. Evelyn tr. St. John Chrysostom Golden Bk. 6 That thou shouldst Cœlibat him..and make him a Monk.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online September 2019).
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