单词 | trigamy |
释义 | trigamyn. 1. Ecclesiastical Law. Marriage for the third time after the death of former wives or husbands. ? Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > remarriage > [noun] > more than once octogamyc1395 trigamy1615 tetragamy1862 1615 G. Sandys Relation of Journey 82 For them [priests] it is lawfull to marry: but bigamy is forbidden them, and trigamy detested in the Laity. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Trigamy, a third Marriage; or the State of a Person who has been married three Times... In the ancient Church, Trigamy was only allowed to such as had no Children by their former Marriages. 2. The state of having three wives or husbands at the same time; the crime of contracting a third marriage while two previous spouses are alive. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > types of marriage custom or practice > [noun] > polygamy > state of having three spouses trigamya1634 a1634 E. Coke 1st Pt. Inst. Lawes Eng. (1648) iii. xxvii. 88 The difference between Bygamy, or Trigamy, &c. and Polygamy. 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Trigamy, (Gr.) the having three Husbands or three Wives at once. 1884 Christian World 16 Oct. 795/5 A woman 30 years of age was charged with trigamy, all three husbands being still alive. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1615 |
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