a. and sb. [f. CELIBATE sb.1 + -arian; cf. F. célibataire.]
A. adj. Characterized by, or characteristic of, celibacy; inclined to, or favoring, celibacy.
1839. Darley, Introd. Beaum. & Fl. Wks., I. 10. An act so little in accord with the Queen’s celibatarian prejudices.
1849. Fraser’s Mag., XL. 137. He had vegetated twenty years in the celibatarian dignities of his fellowship.
1848. Clough, Amours de Voy., III. 183. Let me offer a single and celibatarian phrase.
B. sb. One who lives in or advocates celibacy.
1863. Sala, in Temple Bar, VII. 546. Her chin, like a wavering celibatarian, seemed scarcely to have made up its mind.
1867. H. C. Lea, Sacerdotal Celibacy, 168. So ardent a celibatarian as Aldhelm.
