Bachelor: alternatives and connections

One of a sect in Africa (4th century), mentioned by St. Augustine, who states that they married, but lived in continence, after the ma…

A man who commits adultery; a married man who has sexual intercourse with a woman not his wife.

The unfaithfulness of a married person to the marriage bed; sexual intercourse by a married man with another than his wife, or volunta…

A married man, or a man newly married.

The offense of marrying one person when already legally married to another.

A woman newly married, or about to be married.

A man newly married, or just about to be married.

A professed admirer of a married woman; a dangler about women.

The cohabiting of a man and a woman who are not legally married; the state of being a concubine.

In a congenial manner; as, congenially married or employed.

Belonging to marriage; suitable or appropriate to the marriage state or to married persons; matrimonial; connubial.

A male and female associated together; esp., a man and woman who are married or betrothed.

Under cover, authority or protection; as, a feme covert, a married woman who is considered as being under the protection and control o…

Under the protection of a husband; married.

Act, or state, of being twice married; deuterogamy.

Not covert; not within the bonds of matrimony; unmarried; -- applied either to a woman who has never married or to a widow.

The separation of a married woman from the bed and board of her husband -- divorce a mensa et toro (/ thoro), "from bed board."

To run away, or escape privately, from the place or station to which one is bound by duty; -- said especially of a woman or a man, eit…