bigam

plural bigams

1. archaicrareA bigamist, or one who has married a widow.

   The Asiatic queens, sultanas, and bigams, scarcely ever appear in public. They abide in the Haram, in the greatest luxury and spelendour...

   1823, A. Clarke, The Latter Day Luminary, volume IV, number X, page 344

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   If he were irreguler, suspende, excommunycate, bygame, illegittime, or concubinarie open and knowen, & by the consequens suspende at the tyme & houre that he receyved the dygnyte, the cure, or prelacyon he synneth mortally and is contynually in deedly synne...

   1502, anonymous author, The Ordinary of Christian Men, London: Wynkyn de Worde, page 234

   "Some parts of the scripture teach us positive ordinances of Christ, as are the sacraments; and some parts thereof teach us ordinances of some apostle, as the law of bigamy, or St. Paul 's ordaining, that a bigam should not be a deacon or priest, and that a woman vowe not chastity before the sixtieth year of her age."

   1744, John Lewis, The Life of the Learned and Right Reverend Reynold Pecock, S.T.P., Lord Bishop of St. Asaph and Chichester, London: John Moore, page 286

   On the death of Alexander, her husband, Hermione, a chatelaine, discovers that he was a bigam on the one hand, and a swindler on the other.

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