Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Relating to concubinage; living in concubinage.
- noun One who indulges in concubinage.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Relating to concubinage; living in concubinage.
- noun One who lives in concubinage.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of or pertaining to a
concubine - noun The state of being a concubine
Etymologies
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concubine + -ary
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Examples
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But foremost of these all -- slavery, and domestication of concubinary slaves, the concomitant evils of war -- were abolished by him, ordering at the same time that prisoners of war should be either liberated gratis or ransomed.
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Gambacurta (1394), exiled by the Florentines from his archbishopric of Pisa; Giovanni Benedetti, O.P. (1418), who reformed many convents of his order and concubinary priests; Ludovico Barbo (1437), Abbot of
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner 1840-1916 1913
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