[f. as TRIGAMY + -IST.] † One who has been married three times (obs.); now, one who has three wives or husbands at the same time. Cf. BIGAMIST. Also attrib.
1656. Blount, Glossogr., Trigamist,… he that hath had three wives.
1836. M. M. Cohen, in Rural Repository, XIII. 3 Dec., 101/3. Powell has two wives, as is common with the Indians, but they are rarely Trigamists.
1854. Tait’s Mag., XXI. 316. We could have spared … the memorials of the trigamist Doctor.
1895. Daily Tel., 28 Nov., 7/2. Collis being already a bigamist or trigamist.
1899. Rodway, Guiana Wilds, 266. The Church would not permit me to baptize a trigamist, and the chief would not part with either of his wives.
