[f. as prec. on the analogy of polygamy.] The custom of marrying only within the limits of a clan or tribe. Hence Endogamic a. [see -IC], pertaining to endogamy.
1865. M‘Lennan, Prim. Marriage, 48, note. The words endogamy and exogamy are new.
1875. Lubbock, Orig. Civilis., iii. 95. Some tribes branched off into endogamy, others into exogamy.
1873. Contemp. Rev., XXII. 423. The transition … from the exogamic to the endogamic system.
