Definition of "monogamian" []

• Monogamous (adjective)

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• "The family has fallen more into the strictly monogamian form, each occupying a separate house; communism in living in large households has disappeared, the organization into gentes has in many cases fallen out or been rudely extinguished by external influences; and their religious usages have yielded."
• "In the Middle Status of barbarism the Indian tribes began to change descent from the female line to the male, as die syndyasmian family of the period began to assume monogamian characteristics."
• "It was founded upon marriage between single pairs, but it fell below the monogamian family of civilized society."