Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to the levirate.
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- adjective Alternative form of
leviratical .
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And while much of the material might seem simple to sophisticated readers of VERBATIM, its editor learned from Wordspinner that a marriage between a brother and the childless widow of the groom's brother is called a leviratic marriage and that cut the green calabash is Gullah for ` exaggerate. '
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