cælibate
English
Adjective
cælibate (not comparable)
- Archaic spelling of celibate.
- 1664, The Curtezan unmasked:
- "That although to live a single life is not totally repugnant to Humane Nature, yet it is repugnant to the Nature of most Men; Because a single life and cælibate are onely fitted for the most excellent Minds, and such as are refined from the dross of impure concupiscence."
- 1664, The Curtezan unmasked:
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