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Definition of Incestuous
1. Adjective. Resembling incest as by excessive intimacy.
2. Adjective. Relating to or involving incest.
Definition of Incestuous
1. Adjective. Pertaining to or engaging in incest. ¹
2. Adjective. Characterized by mutual relationships that are intimate and exclusive to the detriment of outsiders. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Incestuous
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Incestuous
1. 1. Pertaining to incest. 2. Guilty of incest. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Incestuous
Literary usage of Incestuous
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Tribune Almanac and Political Register by Horace Greeley (1912)
"incestuous marriages. Void Marriages—incestuous marriages; marriages of whites
with negroes, mulattos, or, by the amendment of 1901, with Mongolians: ..."
2. The Penal Code of California by California, Creed Haymond, John Chilton Burch (1872)
"What is incestuous marriage, see Civil Code Cal., Sec. 59. "Who authorized to
solemnize, see id., Sec. 70; see Sec. 285, ante, and note. 360. ..."
3. The Megalithic Culture of Indonesia by William James Perry (1918)
"... contract incestuous unions : To'ar is the son and husband of ... all the
evidence concerning incestuous unions that I have been able to collect. ..."
4. The Science of Jurisprudence: A Treatise in which the Growth of Positive Law by Hannis Taylor (1908)
"As polygamous and Polygamous incestuous marriages are always void in Christian
... 1 As to polygamous and incestuous marriages, see Minor, Conflict of Laws, ..."
5. The Penal Code of the State of California by California, Creed Haymond, John Chilton Burch (1874)
""What is incestuous marriage, see Civil Code Cal., Sec. 59. "Who authorized to
solemnize, see id., Sec. 70; see Sec. 235, ante, and note. 360. ..."
6. Conflict of Laws, Or, Private International Law by Raleigh Colston Minor (1901)
"The same principles apply to marriages contracted between relatives so near as
to cause the union to be deemed incestuous and illegal in all civilized ..."
7. The Church History of Britain, from the Birth of Jesus Christ Until the Year by Thomas Fuller, James Nichols (1842)
"... incestuous Marriage, condemned in a Synod, He also called a synod,* wherein
those damnable doctrines were condemned; as also the incestuous marriage of ..."
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