[f. as prec.: cf. ENDOGAMY.] The custom by which a man is bound to take a wife outside his own clan or group. Hence Exogamic a. [see -IC], pertaining to exogamy.
1865. M‘Lennan, Prim. Marriage, iii. 48. The words ‘endogamy’ and ‘exogamy’ are new.
1870. Lubbock, Orig. Civilis., iii. (1875), 132. A strict system of exogamy prevails.
1873. Contemp. Rev., XXII. 423. The transition which sometimes takes place from the exogamic to the endogamic system.
1885. Tylor, in Academy, 1 Aug., 67/2. A social development late in comparison with the really early stages—female descent and exogamic totemism.
