celibate

4 definitions found

celibate - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Celibate \Cel"i*bate\, n. [L. aelibatus, fr. caelebs unmarried,
     single.]
     1. Celibate state; celibacy. [Obs.]
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              He . . . preferreth holy celibate before the estate
              of marriage.                          --Jer. Taylor.
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     2. One who is unmarried, esp. a bachelor, or one bound by
        vows not to marry.
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  Celibate \Cel"i*bate\, a.
     Unmarried; single; as, a celibate state.
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celibate - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  celibate
      adj 1: abstaining from sexual intercourse; "celibate priests"
             [syn: celibate, continent]
      n 1: an unmarried person who has taken a religious vow of
           chastity

celibate - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  126 Moby Thesaurus words for "celibate":
     Apostolic, Encratic, Lenten, Platonic, Pythagorean, Rechabite,
     Shaker, Spartan, Stoic, abbacomes, abbot, absolute, abstemious,
     abstinent, acarpous, alone, arid, ascetic, azygous, bachelor,
     barren, beadsman, brother, caloyer, celibataire, cenobite, chaste,
     childless, continent, conventual, conventual prior, desert,
     desolate, drained, dried-up, dry, exhausted, fallow,
     first and last, friar, fruitarian, fruitless, gaunt, gelded,
     grand prior, hermit, hieromonach, immaculate, impair, impotent,
     ineffectual, infecund, infertile, intact, issueless, jejune,
     lay abbot, lay brother, leached, lone, maidenly, mendicant,
     menopausal, misogamic, misogamist, misogynist, misogynous,
     monachal, monastic, monk, monkish, nephalistic, nonfertile,
     nonproducing, nonproductive, nonprolific, nun, odd, on the wagon,
     one and only, only, only-begotten, palmer, pilgrim, pillar saint,
     pillarist, priest, prior, pure, religieux, religious,
     sexually abstinent, sine prole, single, singular, sole, spinster,
     sterile, stylite, sucked dry, sworn off, teemless, teetotal,
     uncultivated, undefiled, unfertile, unfruitful, unique, unmarried,
     unpaired, unplowed, unproductive, unprolific, unrepeated, unsown,
     unsullied, untilled, unwed, vegetarian, vestal, virgin, virginal,
     virtuous, waste, wasted, without issue