(v. i.) To practice polygamy; to marry several wives.
Example Sentences:
(1) The mode of inheritance of the abnormalities in this family as in other reported cases is thought to be an autosomal dominant type which is unaffected by the polygamous situation.
(2) There was little association with sociodemographic variables, except that prevalence was high in divorced, widowed and separated women, polygamously married women and single parents.
(3) The present study was a pilot effort to determine whether Kuwaiti wives of polygamous marriages were disproportionately represented in the inpatient psychiatric as opposed to the general population.
(4) Although sociologists and anthropologists, as well as common sense, have suggested that a polygamous marriage may have a negative effect on the wives involved, an extensive literature search failed to uncover any psychiatric research that attempts to examine this situation or objectively delineates possible psychiatric sequelae.
(5) Those few that are real men are unfaithful and polygamous, but most men are unsatisfactory – rude to their wives, unable to give pleasure, bullying, selfish, indifferent to their children, eager to marry a younger secretary.
(6) A number of cases corresponding to polygamous and monogamous matings of individuals are considered.
(7) The following variables had zero-order associations with contraceptive usage: marriage type (monogamous or polygamous), area of residence, religion, and woman's occupation.
(8) Multiple logistic regression modelling of data from both approaches, including each of these risk factors and sex, age, village and season, suggested father's smoking, carriage on the mother's back while cooking and being part of a polygamous family increase risk of ALRI, the latter two for girls only.
(9) In the present work we evaluated the degree of sexual dimorphism in two cell groups of the medial preoptic-anterior hypothalamus (MPOA-AH) in monogamous and polygamous voles.
(10) Methods are described for the maximum likelihood estimation of mating preferences in models of assortative mating for monogamous and polygamous organisms.
(11) A constellation of significant stressful life situations was found among the diabetics such as early loss of father, being first borns, born of polygamous parents, being themselves polygamous, being the children of the first wives, and producing many children without having the adequate professions to yield the necessary financial resources to train them.
(12) Although a polygamous society, three-fourths of married men had only one wife.
(13) I am not saying there isn’t a problem with legally invalid marriages or polygamous marriages – there is.
(14) Only in the polygamous species do males have larger hippocampi relative to the entire brain than do females.
(15) The load may be greatly reduced for mildly deleterious mutations if female choice (for males with few or no mutations) is present in a polygamous species.
(16) Males gave more evidence of competitiveness and tended to mate polygamously.
(17) The pied flycatcher is a polygamous and polyterritorial bird species.
(18) Farage added: “We even, a few years ago, had some quite clear examples where the immigration services were actually allowing women to come into Britain from Pakistan and elsewhere to join polygamous marriages – something that is against our law.
(19) 61.5% of the mothers lived in monogamous marriages, with 37.5% in polygamous marriages.
(20) A stable sexual relationship or consistent use of condoms in polygamous sexual practices is probably the most meaningful means of controlling the sexual transmission of HPV.
Wife
Definition:
(n.) A woman; an adult female; -- now used in literature only in certain compounds and phrases, as alewife, fishwife, goodwife, and the like.
(n.) The lawful consort of a man; a woman who is united to a man in wedlock; a woman who has a husband; a married woman; -- correlative of husband.
Example Sentences:
(1) At the time, with a regular supply of British immigrants arriving in large numbers in Australia, Biggs was able to blend in well as "Terry Cook", a carpenter, so well in fact that his wife, Charmian, was able to join him with his three sons.
(2) The highest rate of discontinuation occurred when method choice was denied in the presence of husband-wife agreement on method choice, and the lowest rate occurred when method choice was granted in the presence of such concurrence.
(3) This study reports the analysis of a transvestite man through focusing on his marital interaction and his wife's complementary behavior to his perversion.
(4) The young European idealist who helped Leon Brittan, the British EU commissioner, to negotiate Chinese entry to the World Trade Organisation, also found his Spanish lawyer wife in Brussels.
(5) Another, discussing public attitudes towards the police, said: "I've lost count of [the number of] people who said: 'It's only cos you've got a uniform … if you didn't have the uniform on, I'd come and fuck you and this, that and the other … I hope your wife dies of cancer and your kids die of cancer.'"
(6) Scott was born in North Shields, Tyne and Wear, the youngest of the three sons of Colonel Francis Percy Scott, who served in the Royal Engineers, and his wife, Elizabeth.
(7) The arrest of the Washington Post’s Tehran correspondent Jason Rezaian and his journalist wife, Yeganeh Salehi, as well as a photographer and her partner, is a brutal reminder of the distance between President Hassan Rouhani’s reforming promises and his willingness to act.
(8) Five days later a French "honeymoon" couple, Alain Jacques Turenge and his wife Sophie Turenge, were arrested.
(9) Originally, it was to be named Le Reve, after one of the Picassos that Wynn and his wife own; but, as of last month, it is to be called Wynn Las Vegas, embodying a dream of a different kind.
(10) I haven't had to face anyone like the man who threatened to call the police when he decided his card had been cloned after sharing three bottles of wine with his wife, or the drunk woman who became violent and announced that she was a solicitor who was going to get this fucking place shut down – two customers Andrew had to deal with on the same night.
(11) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Joe Davis protests against his wife Kim’s jailing.
(12) FBI assistant director David Bowdich said that Syed Farook, 28, and his wife Tashfeen Malik, 27, were radicalized long before they went on a rampage at a community center in southern California last Wednesday, but would not specify whether he meant months or years.
(13) The education secretary's wife, Sarah Vine, a columnist, said her son William, nine, and daughter Beatrice, 11, now realise how much their father is hated for his position in government because other children tell them in the playground.
(14) Sharif Mobley, 30, whose lawyers consider him to be disappeared, managed to call his wife in Philadelphia on Thursday, the first time they had spoken since February and a rare independent proof he is alive since a brief phone call with his mother in July.
(15) Alfred Liyolo, 71, one of Congo’s leading sculptors , sold several bronzes to the palace in Gbadolite and designed a church and tomb for Mobutu’s first wife; all were lost or destroyed in the looting.
(16) The author discusses marriages in which a basically insecure husband plays a god-like role and his wife, who initially worshipped him, matures and finds her situation depressing and degrading.
(17) Andrew and his wife Amy belong to Generation Rent, an army of millions, all locked out of home ownership in Britain.
(18) Dr Fiona Stewart, a public health sociologist and Nitschke’s wife, told Guardian Australia she had replaced Nitschke as Exit International’s director.
(19) "I rang my wife to tell her," he says, "and she just laughed."
(20) (BBC) "I received the letter two months ago and was told to keep quiet about it or it might be taken away, so my wife and I kept quiet about it.