[f. as BIGAMY + -IST.] A man or woman living in bigamy: a. in the usual acceptation; cf. BIGAMY 1. Hence Bigamistic a.
a. 1631. Donne, Septuagint (1633), 202 (T.). Lamech, the prime Bigamist and corrupter of Marriage.
1840. Thackeray, Paris Sk. Bk. (1872), 237. Old La Vauballière was a bigamist.
1834. Fraser’s Mag., IX. 332. He had actually gone through a bigamistic sham with her.
b. in Eccl. Law; cf. BIGAMY 2. Obs. exc. Hist.
[1656. Blount, Glossogr., Bigamist, he that hath marryed two wives.]
1726. Ayliffe, Parerg., 116. Much less can a Bigamist have such a Benefice.
1844. Lingard, Anglo-Sax. Chr. (1858), II. i. 17. The bigamist, though he were a widower, and possessed of every other qualification, was excluded, without the hope of indulgence, from the rank of bishop, priest, or deacon.
