About The Word Celibate

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Celibate

Celibate Meaning & Definition
Celibate Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Celibate?

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

Synonyms | Synonyms for Celibate: chaste | continent

Related Terms | Find terms related to Celibate: abbacomes | abbot | absolute | abstemious | abstinent | acarpous | alone | Apostolic | arid | ascetic | azygous | bachelor | barren | beadsman | brother | caloyer | celibataire | cenobite | chaste | childless | continent | conventual | conventual prior | desert | desolate | drained | dried-up | dry | Encratic | 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 | Lenten | 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 | Platonic | priest | prior | pure | Pythagorean | Rechabite | religieux | religious | sexually abstinent | Shaker | sine prole | single | singular | sole | Spartan | spinster | sterile | Stoic | 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

See Also | religionist | religious person

Celibate In Webster's Dictionary

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

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