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Definition of Digamous
1. a. Pertaining to a second marriage, that is, one after the death of the first wife or the first husband.
Definition of Digamous
1. Adjective. Pertaining to a second marriage, i.e. one taking place after the death of the first wife or first husband. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Digamous
1. digamy [adj] - See also: digamy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Digamous
Literary usage of Digamous
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of Christian Antiquities: Being a Continuation of the by Samuel Cheetham (1880)
"On the other hand, a Spanish canon seems to imply that quasi- digamous marriages
might in that province be contracted with the advice of the bishop, ..."
2. A Dictionary of Christian Antiquities by William Smith, Samuel Cheetham (1893)
"On the other hr.nd, a Spanish canon seems to imply that quasi- digamous marriages
might in that province be contracted with the advice of the bishop, ..."
3. A Dictionary of Christian Antiquities: Comprising the History, Institutions by William Smith, Samuel Cheetham (1875)
"On the other huid, a Spanish canon seems to imply that quasi- digamous marriages
might in that province be contracted with the advice of the bishop, ..."
4. The Laws of Marriage: Containing the Hebrew Law, the Roman Law, the Law of by John Fulton (1883)
"That the regulations against digamous clergy were exceedingly stringent, and not
less so against clergymen who married digamous or disreputable women. ..."
5. The History of Christianity from the Birth of Christ to the Abolition of by Henry Hart Milman (1867)
"Epiphanius said, that since the coming of Christ no digamous clergyman had ever
been ordained. Barbeyrac has collected the passages of the Fathers ..."
6. An Historical Sketch of Sacerdotal Celibacy in the Christian Church,. by Henry Charles Lea (1884)
"The world, he adds, is full of such prelates, not only in the lower orders but
in the episcopate, the digamous members of which exceed in number the three ..."
7. A Select Library of Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church by Philip Schaff, Henry Wace (1895)
"V. He distinguishes between laymen who hare been raised to the bishoprics and
digamous clerks, forgiving the former and not the latter. ..."
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