Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who has been married twice; a widower or widow who marries a second time.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who marries a second time; a deuterogamist.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who
marries a second time; adeuterogamist .
Etymologies
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Ancient Greek
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Examples
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How much more capital a crime it is for a digamist laic to act as a priest, when the priest, if he turn digamist, is deprived of the power of acting as a priest?
A Source Book for Ancient Church History Joseph Cullen Ayer 1905
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Hippolytus (ix. 12) that by the beginning of the 3d century the rule of monogamy for the clergy was well established, since he complains that in the days of Callistus ` digamist and trigamist bishops, and priests and deacons, began to be admitted into the clergy. '
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Castitatis (c. 7) he asks scornfully; ` Being a digamist, dost thou baptize?
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