Definition of "digamist" []

• One who marries a second time; a deuterogamist. (noun)

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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?"
• "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. '"
• "Castitatis (c. 7) he asks scornfully; ` Being a digamist, dost thou baptize?"