cælibate

English

Noun

cælibate (uncountable)

  1. Archaic spelling of celibate.
    • 1664, The Curtezan Unmasked: Or, The Whoredomes of Jezebel Painted to the Life. With Antidotes against Them; or Heavenly Julips to Cool Men in the Fever of Lust. Prescribed by a Spiritual Physician., London: […] Henry Marsh, […], page 32:
      That although to live a ſingle life is not totally repugnant to Humane Nature, yet it is repugnant to the Nature of moſt Men; Becauſe a ſingle life and cælibate are onely fitted for the moſt excellent Minds, and ſuch as are refined from the droſs of impure concupiſcence.
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