英语词汇“tetragamy”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

tetragamy n.

Brit.

/tᵻˈtraɡəmi/

/tɛˈtraɡəmi/

U.S.

/təˈtræɡəmi/

/tɛˈtræɡəmi/

a fourth marriage; (also) marriage with four women simultaneously. [After post-classical Latin tetragamia (1545 or earlier) or its etymon Byzantine Greek τετραγαμία.]

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > remarriage > [noun] > more than once

octogamyc1395

trigamy1615

tetragamy1862

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

tetragamy1862

1862 J. C. Robertson Hist. Christian Church II. iv. v. 402 (note) He [Symeon Magister] says that the lawfulness of ‘tetragamy’ was believed to have been revealed to Euthymius.

1907 W. De Morgan Alice-for-Short xviii. 203 Charles had said to his friend, jokingly, that if he had fifty sisters, single ones, Johnson was welcome to make offers to them all round.—‘But then, my dear Paracelsus, that was to be if I had fifty. That would leave me forty-nine—or in case of bigamy, forty-eight; or quadrogamy—tetragamy—whatever it ought to be—forty-six.’

1918 R. A. Knox Spiritual Aeneid x. 166 We could always split the difference between monogamy and tetragamy by having two wives all round.

单词	tetragamy
释义	> as lemmas tetragamy tetragamy n. Brit. /tᵻˈtraɡəmi/ , /tɛˈtraɡəmi/ , U.S. /təˈtræɡəmi/ , /tɛˈtræɡəmi/ a fourth marriage; (also) marriage with four women simultaneously. [After post-classical Latin tetragamia (1545 or earlier) or its etymon Byzantine Greek τετραγαμία.] ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > remarriage > [noun] > more than once octogamyc1395 trigamy1615 tetragamy1862 society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > types of marriage custom or practice > [noun] > polygamy > state of having four spouses tetragamy1862 1862 J. C. Robertson Hist. Christian Church II. iv. v. 402 (note) He [Symeon Magister] says that the lawfulness of ‘tetragamy’ was believed to have been revealed to Euthymius. 1907 W. De Morgan Alice-for-Short xviii. 203 Charles had said to his friend, jokingly, that if he had fifty sisters, single ones, Johnson was welcome to make offers to them all round.—‘But then, my dear Paracelsus, that was to be if I had fifty. That would leave me forty-nine—or in case of bigamy, forty-eight; or quadrogamy—tetragamy—whatever it ought to be—forty-six.’ 1918 R. A. Knox Spiritual Aeneid x. 166 We could always split the difference between monogamy and tetragamy by having two wives all round. extracted from tetra-comb. form < as lemmas
随便看	to be no accident to be no better than to be no better than one should be to be no chicken to be no fool to be no great shakes to be no great some considerable shakes to be no great some etc shakes to be no great some great shakes to be no mastery to be no more use than a headache to be no more use than a sick headache to be no newings to be no oil painting to be no respecter of persons to be no small drink to be no spring chicken to be no starter to be no stranger to be no substitute for to be no way but one to be no worse than one's word to be nobody's business to be nobody's enemy but one's own to be none of a person's business

> as lemmas