Definition of Celibates

1. Noun. (plural of celibate) ¹

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Definition of Celibates

1. celibate [n] - See also: celibate

Lexicographical Neighbors of Celibates

celestites
celestrol
celetoid
celetoids
celiac
celiac artery
celiac disease
celiac sprue
celiac trunk
celiacs
celibacies
celibacist
celibately
celibates (current term)
celibatic
celibatist
celibatists
celiectomy
celio-
celiocentesis
celioenterotomy
celiogastrostomy
celiogastrotomy
celiohysterectomy
celiohysterotomy
celioma
celiomyalgia
celiomyomectomy

Literary usage of Celibates

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Conversion of Europe by Charles Henry Robinson (1917)
"Whatever else they were, neither the Celtic monks Celtic nor the Celtic clergy in Ireland or Wales ever professed not nec to be a body of celibates, ..."

2. The Secret History of the Oxford Movement by Walter Walsh (1899)
"... secret Statutes—Its secret signs—Its mysterious "Committee of Clergy " —The Roll of sworn celibates—Their Oath—Its secret Synods and Chapters—Brethren ..."

3. Pre-Malthusian Doctrines of Population: A Study in the History of Economic by Charles Emil Stangeland (1904)
"... by the following methods: (a) By placing various disabilities on celibates. Those who married of their own accord were often given sundry advantages. ..."

4. Chapters on Human Love by Walter Matthew Gallichan (1898)
"... and the Essenes had sects of celibates. " The senseless practice of celibacy has been ranked from a remote period as a virtue," says Darwin. ..."

5. The Historical Relation of New England to the English Commonwealth by John Wingate Thornton (1874)
"... this infallible vicegerent “re-animates... warns and exhorts” all his hierarchal celibates, who have neither country nor home nor personal conscience, ..."

6. What Can be Certainly Known of God and of Jesus of Nazareth?: An Inquiry by John Moore Capes (1880)
"Taught exclusively by celibates.—The celibate doctrine carried to its extreme by the Jesuits.—The doctrine taught in the great picture of the Sistine Chapel ..."

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