pantagamy

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  1. A peculiar domestic relation maintained between the sexes in certain quasi-religious and communistic communities in the United States, especially (formerly) among the Perfectionists of the Oneida Community, by which every man was virtually the husband of every woman, and every woman the wife of every man. A scheme of pantagamy,by which all the male and all the female members of the community are held to be in a sense married to each other. Johnson's Univ. Cyc., III. 951.

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  1. Prop. *pantogamy, French pantogamie, from Greek πᾶς (παντ-), all, + -γαμία, from γάμος, marriage.
 

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