(n.) A woman who cohabits with a man without being his wife; a paramour.
(n.) A wife of inferior condition; a lawful wife, but not united to the man by the usual ceremonies, and of inferior condition. Such were Hagar and Keturah, the concubines of Abraham; and such concubines were allowed by the Roman laws. Their children were not heirs of their father.
Example Sentences:
(1) Carwyn Jones will remain first minister but his anointment threatened to be overshadowed by a sexism row after Ukip’s leader at the assembly, the former Tory MP Neil Hamilton , branded two senior female assembly members “political concubines” and called Plaid a “cheap date”.
(2) Winnie, meanwhile, raged ineffectually against the emotional cunning of the woman she called "that concubine".
(3) Abraham had only two concubines, where Solomon had 300, along with his 700 wives.
(4) Of the non-English language films that have won the Palme d'Or since 1990, only Amour has won the Academy award, while Farewell My Concubine , The Class and The White Ribbon have achieved a shortlist nomination.
(5) His mother had distant aristocratic origins, being descended from one of the sultan of Jogjakarta's concubines some generations back.
(6) The Old Testament is replete with stories of men like King Solomon who had 700 wives and 300 concubines.
(7) He is best known for a 1968 historical drama called The Eunuch, about concubines and emasculated servants unable to consummate their secret love.
(8) One should remember that enslaving the families of the kuffar [non-believers] and taking their women as concubines is a firmly established aspect of Islamic law,” the article said.
(9) If he pays her father to take her away, she is his concubine.
(10) Was Ramsay Snow’s concubine running away from a pack of slavering dogs or Iwan’s album listening party?
(11) 59% of the patients were between 20 and 29 years old (Table 1) and 74% were married (only 23 of these did not share their husbands with other wives or concubines) (Table 2).
(12) Responding to a tide of online criticism about his slave comments, Muthana wrote: "When I spoke about slave everyone jumped on me muslims and non muslims alike … so I stayed quiet and will stay quiet but everyone will soon find out when I get my own concubines lool, slave markets are on full blast."
(13) For slaves, concubines, gold and castles of ancient and medieval times, read private jets, holiday islands and football and baseball clubs of the contemporary era.
(14) Anti-government rebels from the Lord's Resistance Army in the most northerly districts of Uganda swept along and across it, fighting and stealing children - boys for soldiers and girls for concubines.
(15) The Chinese were the 1st to record the practice of induced abortion, with this operation being administered to royal concubines recorded at 500-515 B.C.
(16) A few weeks later an Isis pamphlet detailed how followers should treat these “concubines”, with special reference to virgins and underage girls.
(17) Pretty girls were often forcibly taken as wives or concubines.
(18) The award-winning films that heralded its 1990s renaissance, such as Zhang Yimou's Raise the Red Lantern and Chen Kaige's Farewell My Concubine, were banned in China.
(19) In this drama centered on the concubines of a Liberian rebel commander, making its New York debut at the Public Theatre, Lupita Nyong’o of 12 Years a Slave plays the newest abducted “wife”.
(20) There are other spots worth visiting outside the centre; notably the exquisitely glazed 17th-century Abak Khoja Mausoleum, also known as the Tomb of the Fragrant Concubine in honour of a consort of Emperor Qianlong.
Doxy
Definition:
(n.) A loose wench; a disreputable sweetheart.
Example Sentences:
(1) Evaluation of the in vitro activity of rokitamycin (RKM) against Chlamydia trachomatis in cycloheximide treated HeLa 229 cells and McCoy cells by comparing with five drugs including doxycycline (DOXY), minocycline (MINO), ofloxacin (OFLX), ampicillin (ABPC) and erythromycin (EM) with regard to assaying minimal inhibitory concentrations (MICs), minimal lethal concentrations (MLCs), and by yield reduction assays: 1) direct treatment of Chlamydial organisms with various concentrations of antibiotics before inoculation, 2) pre-treatment of host cell (HeLa 229) with the antibiotics before they are infected and 3) treatment of already infected cultures (48 hrs after infection) with antibiotics.
(2) The following antibiotics were evaluated; ampicillin (ABPC), piperacillin (PIPC), cefotaxime (CTX), cefoperazone (CPZ), ceftizoxime (CZX), cefmenoxime (CMX), latamoxef (LMOX), tetracycline (TC), doxycycline (DOXY), minocycline (MINO), chloramphenicol (CP) and erythromycin (EM).
(3) Degenerative cartilage lesions on the medial trochlear ridge, superficial fibrillation of the medial tibial plateau, and osteophytosis were, however, unaffected by doxy treatment.
(4) In conclusion, DOXY was thought to be useful and safe drug in the treatment of nongonococcal urethritis by C. trachomatis.
(5) In vitro studies have indicated that levels of neutral metalloproteinases in osteoarthritic (OA) cartilage are elevated and that doxycycline (doxy) inhibits collagenolytic and gelatinolytic activity in extracts of OA cartilage.
(6) Six dogs received doxy orally from the day after ACL transection until they were killed 8 weeks later; the other 6 served as untreated OA controls.
(7) Thirty male patients with nongonococcal urethritis and 7 female patients nongonococcal cervicitis were treated with 200 mg doxycycline (DOXY) daily over a period of 7 days.
(8) 3) After treatments with DOXY for cases of positive IgA titers in prostatic secretion, IgA titers of those cases were decreased and inflammations of prostate were cured.
(9) The purpose of the present study was to test the effect of oral doxy administration on the severity of cartilage degeneration in OA.
(10) It remains to be determined whether administration of doxy after OA changes have developed is also effective.
(11) The MIC90 of OFLX was equal to that of DOXY and 4- to 16-fold smaller than the values of the other 3 antibiotics.
(12) Doxycycline (DOXY) was administered to 45 male patients with nongonococcal urethritis.
(13) In vitro activities of ofloxacin (OFLX), a new quinolone derivative, against 29 strains of Mycoplasma gallisepticum was compared with those of 4 commonly used antimicrobial agents, doxycycline (DOXY), tylosin (TS), spectinomycin (SPCM) and thiamphenicol (TP).
(14) Prophylactic administration of doxy markedly reduced the severity of OA in weight-bearing regions of the medial femoral condyle.
(15) A comparison of the O2- yields from the tetracyclines examined showed the trend chlortetracycline (CTC) greater than oxytetracycline (OXY) greater than demeclocycline (DEM) much greater than (doxycycline (DOXY) = tetracycline (TC) = minocycline (MINO) = 0).
(16) Low concentrations of 16-DOXY L-Stearate dramatically broaden the 13C-NMR resonances of deoxycholate carbons 19, 18 and 7 in particular, while 5-DOXY L-Stearate exerts much less specific effects.
(17) C. trachomatis positive rate of male NGU after treatment of DOXY for 3 days, 7 days and 14 days, was 83%, 17% and 0%, respectively.
(18) Because of continuing fever, mefloquin (Lariam) and doxy-cycline (Vibramycin) were also administered.
(19) DOXY was given in an oral dose of 100 mg twice daily for 4 to 19 days.
(20) No side effect related to dosing of DOXY developed.