[ad. L. concubīnāt-us concubinage; in mod.F. concubinat: see CONCUBINE and -ATE1.] = CONCUBINAGE.
1539. in Strype, Eccl. Mem., I. xlv. 342. Then the marriage of the Priests should be in the Pope’s hands, who might admit the same; and the concubinate of many should be forbidden.
1651. Life Father Sarpi (1676), 47. Their Matrimonies were Concubinates, their Children illegitimate.
1660. Jer. Taylor, Duct. Dubit., III. v. (R.). Such marriages were esteem’d illegitimate, and no better than a mere concubinate.
a. 1679. Hobbes, Elem. Law, Wks. (1840), IV. 156–7. For although for the most part, a concubine is supposed to yield up the right of her children to the father, yet doth not concubinate enforce so much.
