a. (sb.) Obs. Pl. bigami. [med.L.] BIGAM(E.

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c. 1375.  Wyclif, Sel. Wks. (1869), I. 87. Crist was not bigamus ne brake not his matrimonye.

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1543.  Berthelet, Act 4 Edw. I. Concerning men twise maried, called Bygamy.

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c. 1555.  Harpsfield, Divorce Hen. VIII. (1878), 43. So doth he dispense with a bygamus.

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1706.  trans. Dupin’s Eccl. Hist. 16th C., II. 395. Tonsured Clerks, provided they be not Bigami.

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