polygamyn.

Brit.

/pəˈlɪɡəmi/,

/pɒˈlɪɡəmi/, U.S.

/pəˈlɪɡəmi/

Forms: 1500s–1600s poligamie, 1500s–1700s poligamy, 1500s–1700s polygamie, 1500s– polygamy.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin polygamia.

Etymology: < post-classical Latin polygamia frequent marriage (early 5th cent. in Jerome), polygamy (c1250 in a British source), fact or state of an animal's having more than one mate of the opposite sex (1752 in the passage translated in quot. 1759 at sense 2) < Hellenistic Greek πολυγαμία frequent marriage, polygamy < πολύγαμος often married, polygamous (see polygamous adj.) + ancient Greek -ία -y suffix³. Compare Middle French, French polygamie , †poligamie (1558 in sense ‘fact of having more than one wife at a time’, c1690 in sense ‘fact of having had more than one wife during one's lifetime’, 1749 in sense 3; the zoological use in sense 2 is apparently not paralleled in French until later (c1845)), German Polygamie (mid 16th cent.). Compare monogamy n., and also earlier bigamy n.

a. The practice or custom of having more than one spouse at the same time. Contrasted with monogamy.Chiefly applied to the practice or custom (more explicitly called polygyny) in which a man has several wives at once, but also including polyandry, in which a woman has several husbands.Sometimes also used with reference to sexual partners rather than spouses.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > types of marriage custom or practice > [noun] > polygamy

polygamy1538

plural marriage1862

society > faith > worship > benefice > [noun] > one who possesses > who has two or more > holding of two or more together

pluralityc1400

polygamy1538

pluracy1581

pluralism1772

society > faith > worship > benefice > kinds of benefice > [noun] > two or more held together > holding of

pluralityc1400

polygamy1538

pluracy1581

pluralism1772

1538 R. Taverner tr. Erasmus Sarcerius Common Places of Script. f. ccxi^v (side note) Poligamie, that is, the hauing of many wyues to gyther is forbydden.

1579 W. Fulke Heskins Parl. Repealed in D. Heskins Ouerthrowne 11 The incest of Iuda, & the polygamie of the Patriarks.

1617 F. Moryson Itinerary iii. 41 Though Poligamy be permitted among them, (I meane the hauing of many wiues for one man).

a1687 W. Petty Papers (1927) II. 113 The English may buy Indian girles of under 7 yeares old and use them as wives, even with polygamy regulated by authority.

1738 S.-Carolina Gaz. 16 Mar. 2/2 Elizabeth Davis, alias Ward, alias Oram stands..indicted for Polygamy, and will take her Trial next Sessions.

1768 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. IV. xiii. 163 Polygamy can never be endured under any rational civil establishment.

1829 Times 17 Apr. 3/6 I shall endeavour to have that gentleman sent over the water for polygamy.

1857 W. E. Gladstone in Q. Rev. July 271 Among the Greeks of Homer we find no trace of polygamy.

1906 N. W. Thomas Kinship Organisations 108 This state is constituted by the union of several men with several women. It may be distinguished as before, into primary and secondary polygamy.

1964 Ann. Reg. 1963 358 Among social measures which came into force were the banning of polygamy and permission for inter-caste marriages.

2004 Canberra Times (Nexis) 6 June a2 She certainly overlapped her blokes, a kind of serial monogamy with relief polygamy in short bursts.

b. In extended use.

ΚΠ

a1715 Bp. G. Burnet Suppl. to Hist. Own Time (1902) ii. 501 For the heaping up of benefice upon benefice that were well endowed,..I openly declared against such as I found possessed of them as..living in a spirituall poligamy.

1855 W. M. Thackeray Newcomes II. xxxvi. 324 Many such [friends] a reasonable mortal cannot have: our nature, I think, not sufficing for that sort of polygamy.

1873 P. G. Hamerton Intellect. Life (1876) iv. v. 165 A sort of polygamy to have different pursuits.

1960 F. Denbeaux Art Christian Doubt ii. 49 Positivists..do not intend to commit intellectual polygamy.

1995 Boston Globe (Nexis) 11 Mar. 2 That marriage of two peoples has turned into a sort of polygamy, with Quebecers reduced in status to one minority among many.

2. Zoology. The fact or state of an animal's having more than one mate of the opposite sex; spec. = polygyny n. 2.Not now in scientific use, except as an extended use of sense 1.

ΚΠ

1759 B. Stillingfleet tr. I. Biberg Oeconomy Nature in Misc. Tracts Nat. Hist. 77 Pigeons, small birds, and other birds, which pair, sit by turns; but where polygamy [L. polygamia] prevails, the males scarcely take any care of the young.

1815 J. G. Spurzheim Physiognom. Syst. viii. 372 The dog lives in polygamy, like the cock, bull and stallion.

1937 D. Katz Animals & Men vii. 202 The male zebras live with their harems in permanent polygamy, irrespective of the rutting season.

1989 M. Birkhead & T. R. Birkhead Survival Factor (BNC) 70 These conflicting interests are resolved in a huge variety of ways, from the steadfast monogamy of the majority of birds to the bewildering polygamy of the dunnock.

3. Botany †The condition of having several or many florets in an inflorescence, as in a plant of the family Asteraceae ( Compositae) (obsolete); the condition of being polygamous. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > flower or part containing reproductive organs > flower or flowering plant > [noun] > characterized by parts > characterized by stamens, pistils, or sex of flowers > state of having specific type stamens or pistils

polygamy1760

monoecism1875

andromonœcism1888

monoecy1949

1760 J. Lee Introd. Bot. ii. iii. 80 The Flowers of this Class being Compound, a Polygamy arises from the Intercommunication of the several Florets in one and the same Flower.

1793 T. Martyn Lang. Bot. sig. P4 This term Polygamia or Polygamy, as applied to a compound flower,..signifies that several distinct flowers (called Florets) are included in one common calyx.

1800 J. Hull Elements Bot. II. 250 The following modes of Polygamy are possible: 1. In Monoecia by Hermaphrodites..by Males..by Females. 2. In Dioecia [etc.].

1882 S. H. Vines tr. J. von Sachs Text-bk. Bot. (ed. 2) iii. vi. 905 The arrangement of the reproductive organs termed Polygamy is also a contrivance intended to hinder perpetual self-fertilisation of a flower or of an individual.

1992 Amer. Jrnl. Bot. 79 809 Protandry, herkogamy, and a tendency to polygamy seemed to occur in C[olubrina] asiatica.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	polygamy
释义	polygamyn. Brit. /pəˈlɪɡəmi/, /pɒˈlɪɡəmi/, U.S. /pəˈlɪɡəmi/ Forms: 1500s–1600s poligamie, 1500s–1700s poligamy, 1500s–1700s polygamie, 1500s– polygamy. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin polygamia. Etymology: < post-classical Latin polygamia frequent marriage (early 5th cent. in Jerome), polygamy (c1250 in a British source), fact or state of an animal's having more than one mate of the opposite sex (1752 in the passage translated in quot. 1759 at sense 2) < Hellenistic Greek πολυγαμία frequent marriage, polygamy < πολύγαμος often married, polygamous (see polygamous adj.) + ancient Greek -ία -y suffix³. Compare Middle French, French polygamie , †poligamie (1558 in sense ‘fact of having more than one wife at a time’, c1690 in sense ‘fact of having had more than one wife during one's lifetime’, 1749 in sense 3; the zoological use in sense 2 is apparently not paralleled in French until later (c1845)), German Polygamie (mid 16th cent.). Compare monogamy n., and also earlier bigamy n. 1. a. The practice or custom of having more than one spouse at the same time. Contrasted with monogamy.Chiefly applied to the practice or custom (more explicitly called polygyny) in which a man has several wives at once, but also including polyandry, in which a woman has several husbands.Sometimes also used with reference to sexual partners rather than spouses. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > types of marriage custom or practice > [noun] > polygamy polygamy1538 plural marriage1862 society > faith > worship > benefice > [noun] > one who possesses > who has two or more > holding of two or more together pluralityc1400 polygamy1538 pluracy1581 pluralism1772 society > faith > worship > benefice > kinds of benefice > [noun] > two or more held together > holding of pluralityc1400 polygamy1538 pluracy1581 pluralism1772 1538 R. Taverner tr. Erasmus Sarcerius Common Places of Script. f. ccxi^v (side note) Poligamie, that is, the hauing of many wyues to gyther is forbydden. 1579 W. Fulke Heskins Parl. Repealed in D. Heskins Ouerthrowne 11 The incest of Iuda, & the polygamie of the Patriarks. 1617 F. Moryson Itinerary iii. 41 Though Poligamy be permitted among them, (I meane the hauing of many wiues for one man). a1687 W. Petty Papers (1927) II. 113 The English may buy Indian girles of under 7 yeares old and use them as wives, even with polygamy regulated by authority. 1738 S.-Carolina Gaz. 16 Mar. 2/2 Elizabeth Davis, alias Ward, alias Oram stands..indicted for Polygamy, and will take her Trial next Sessions. 1768 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. IV. xiii. 163 Polygamy can never be endured under any rational civil establishment. 1829 Times 17 Apr. 3/6 I shall endeavour to have that gentleman sent over the water for polygamy. 1857 W. E. Gladstone in Q. Rev. July 271 Among the Greeks of Homer we find no trace of polygamy. 1906 N. W. Thomas Kinship Organisations 108 This state is constituted by the union of several men with several women. It may be distinguished as before, into primary and secondary polygamy. 1964 Ann. Reg. 1963 358 Among social measures which came into force were the banning of polygamy and permission for inter-caste marriages. 2004 Canberra Times (Nexis) 6 June a2 She certainly overlapped her blokes, a kind of serial monogamy with relief polygamy in short bursts. b. In extended use. ΚΠ a1715 Bp. G. Burnet Suppl. to Hist. Own Time (1902) ii. 501 For the heaping up of benefice upon benefice that were well endowed,..I openly declared against such as I found possessed of them as..living in a spirituall poligamy. 1855 W. M. Thackeray Newcomes II. xxxvi. 324 Many such [friends] a reasonable mortal cannot have: our nature, I think, not sufficing for that sort of polygamy. 1873 P. G. Hamerton Intellect. Life (1876) iv. v. 165 A sort of polygamy to have different pursuits. 1960 F. Denbeaux Art Christian Doubt ii. 49 Positivists..do not intend to commit intellectual polygamy. 1995 Boston Globe (Nexis) 11 Mar. 2 That marriage of two peoples has turned into a sort of polygamy, with Quebecers reduced in status to one minority among many. 2. Zoology. The fact or state of an animal's having more than one mate of the opposite sex; spec. = polygyny n. 2.Not now in scientific use, except as an extended use of sense 1. ΚΠ 1759 B. Stillingfleet tr. I. Biberg Oeconomy Nature in Misc. Tracts Nat. Hist. 77 Pigeons, small birds, and other birds, which pair, sit by turns; but where polygamy [L. polygamia] prevails, the males scarcely take any care of the young. 1815 J. G. Spurzheim Physiognom. Syst. viii. 372 The dog lives in polygamy, like the cock, bull and stallion. 1937 D. Katz Animals & Men vii. 202 The male zebras live with their harems in permanent polygamy, irrespective of the rutting season. 1989 M. Birkhead & T. R. Birkhead Survival Factor (BNC) 70 These conflicting interests are resolved in a huge variety of ways, from the steadfast monogamy of the majority of birds to the bewildering polygamy of the dunnock. 3. Botany †The condition of having several or many florets in an inflorescence, as in a plant of the family Asteraceae ( Compositae) (obsolete); the condition of being polygamous. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > flower or part containing reproductive organs > flower or flowering plant > [noun] > characterized by parts > characterized by stamens, pistils, or sex of flowers > state of having specific type stamens or pistils polygamy1760 monoecism1875 andromonœcism1888 monoecy1949 1760 J. Lee Introd. Bot. ii. iii. 80 The Flowers of this Class being Compound, a Polygamy arises from the Intercommunication of the several Florets in one and the same Flower. 1793 T. Martyn Lang. Bot. sig. P4 This term Polygamia or Polygamy, as applied to a compound flower,..signifies that several distinct flowers (called Florets) are included in one common calyx. 1800 J. Hull Elements Bot. II. 250 The following modes of Polygamy are possible: 1. In Monoecia by Hermaphrodites..by Males..by Females. 2. In Dioecia [etc.]. 1882 S. H. Vines tr. J. von Sachs Text-bk. Bot. (ed. 2) iii. vi. 905 The arrangement of the reproductive organs termed Polygamy is also a contrivance intended to hinder perpetual self-fertilisation of a flower or of an individual. 1992 Amer. Jrnl. Bot. 79 809 Protandry, herkogamy, and a tendency to polygamy seemed to occur in C[olubrina] asiatica. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1538
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