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bigamy
c.1250, from O.Fr.
bigamie,
from L.L.
bigamus
"twice married," from
bi-
"double" + Gk.
gamos
"marrying" (see
gamete
).
"Bigamie is unkinde ðing, On engleis tale, twie-wifing." [c.1250]
Bigamist
is attested from 1631.
