单词 | celibate |
释义 | celibaten.1 archaic. State of celibacy; order of celibates. ΘΚΠ 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. Derivatives celiˈbatic adj. of or pertaining to celibacy. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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 A. adj. Unmarried, single; bound not to marry. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΚΠ 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. transitive. To restrain from marriage, compel to celibacy.Apparently an isolated use. ΘΚΠ 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). < n.11614adj.n.21775v.1659 |
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