concubinal (konku binal)

[ IMG:content-0996.png:[blocks in formation] II. n. One who indulges in concubinage. [Rare.] The Holy Ghost will not descend upon the simoniacal, unchaste concubinaries , schismatics, and scandalous priests. Jer. Taylor , Works (ed. 1835), I. 647. con cub in a tet (kon-kū'bi-nāt), n. [L. concu binatus , n., concubina , concubine: see concu bine.] Concubinage. Such marriages were esteemed illegitimate and no better than a mere concubinate . Jer. Taylor , Rule of Conscience, iii. 5. concubine (kong'kū-bīn), n. [ concubin , m., concubine , f., F. concubin, m., concubine , f., = Sp. Pg. concubina, f., = It. concubino, m., concubina , f., con cub in us , m., concubina, f., a concubine, con cub- ), lie together, lie with, com- , together, + -cumbere (only in comp.), nasalized form of cu bare , lie down, recline, bend: see cubit .] 1. A paramour, male or female. The lady Anne did falsely and traitorously procure divers of the king's daily and familiar servants to be her adulterers and concubines . Indictment of Anne Boleyn. 2. A wife of inferior condition; one whose relation is in some respects that of a lawful wife, but who has not been united to the husband by the usual ceremonies: as, Hagar and Keturah, the concubines of Abraham. Such concubines were allowed by the Greek and Roman laws, and for many centuries they were more or le tolerated by the church, for both priests and laymen. The concubine of a priest was sometimes called a prieste . See concubinage, 3. And he [Solomon] had seven hundred wives, prince es, and three hundred concubines. 1 Ki. xi. 3. 3. A woman who cohabits with a man without being married to him; a kept mistre . I know I am too mean to be your queen, And yet too good to be your concubine . Shak., 3 Hen. VI., iii. 2. Indeed, a husband would be justly derided who should bear from a wife of exalted rank and spotle virtue half the insolence which the King of England bore from con cubines who owed everything to his bounty. a spoonfuls Macaulay, Hist. Eng., ii. concula (kong'kū-lä), n.; pl. conculæ (-lē). An ancient Roman measure of capacit capacity, probably about two thirds of a teaspoonful. conculcatet (kon-kul'kāt), v . t . [L. conculca tus , pp. of conculcare , tread under foot, com- , together, + calcare , tread, calx ( calc- ), heel: see calx2 . Cf. inculcate .] To tread upon; trample down. Conculcating and trampling under foot whatsoever is named of God. Bp. Mountagu , Appeal to Cæsar, p. 153. conculcationt (kon-kul-kā' shon), n . [= Sp. conculcacion (obs.) = It. conculcazione , culcatio (n-), conculcare , tread under foot: see conculcate.] A trampling under foot; hence, the state of being oppre ed. The conculcation of the outer court of the temple by the Gentiles. Dr. H. More, Mystery of Iniquity, II. xii. § 1. IMG:content-0997.png:[blocks in formation]