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Definition of Digamist
1. n. One who marries a second time; a deuterogamist.
Definition of Digamist
1. Noun. One who marries a second time; a deuterogamist. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Digamist
1. one who practices digamy [n -S] - See also: digamy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Digamist
Literary usage of Digamist
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Origines Ecclesiasticæ: Or, The Antiquities of the Christian Church, and by Joseph Bingham (1834)
"The canons farther required, that a man should be no digamist, or twice married,
nor married to a widow, nor to any, that had been divorced from another man ..."
2. The Ante-Nicene Fathers: Translations of the Writings of the Fathers Down to by Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson, Arthur Cleveland Coxe (1885)
"If you are a digamist, do you offer? How much more capital (a crime) is it for a
... if he turn digamist, is deprived of the power of acting the priest ! ..."
3. The Ante-Nicene Fathers: Translations of the Writings of the Fathers Down to by Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson, Arthur Cleveland Coxe, Allan Menzies, Ernest Cushing Richardson, Bernhard Pick (1885)
"If you are a digamist, do you offer? How much more capital (a crime) is it for a
... if he turn digamist, is deprived of the power of acting the priest ! ..."
4. A Source Book for Ancient Church History: From the Apostolic Age to the by Joseph Cullen Ayer (1913)
"As a digamist, do you offer? How much more capital a crime it is for a ...
if he turn digamist, is deprived of the power of acting as a priest? ..."
5. The Laws of Marriage: Containing the Hebrew Law, the Roman Law, the Law of by John Fulton (1883)
"A digamist cannot be ordained whether his wife be alive or dead. [Celestine
III., AD 1191-1198. ... A man who has had several concubines is not a digamist. ..."
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