bigam

Definitions

A bigamist, or one who has married a widow.

archaic, rare

Examples

“If he were irreguler, suspende, excommunycate, bygame, illegittime, or concubinarie open⟳ and knowen, & by the consequens suspende at the tyme & houre that he receyved the dygnyte, the cure, or prelacyon he synneth mortally and is contynually in deedly synne...”

“The Asiatic queens, sultanas, and bigams, scarcely ever appear⟳ in public. They abide in the Haram, in the greatest luxury and spelendour...”

“"Some parts of the scripture teach⟳ us positive ordinances of Christ, as are the sacraments; and some parts thereof teach⟳ us ordinances of some apostle, as the law of bigamy, or St. Paul 's ordaining, that a bigam should not be a deacon or priest, and that a woman vowe not chastity before the sixtieth year of her age."”

“On the death of Alexander, her husband, Hermione, a chatelaine, discovers that he was a bigam on the one hand, and a swindler on the other.”

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