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exogamy [ek-sog-uh-mee] EXAMPLES|WORD ORIGIN noun marriage outside a specific tribe or similar social unit.Compare endogamy. Biology. the union of gametes of unrelated parents. Liberaldictionary.com
Origin of exogamy First recorded in 1860–65; exo- + -gamy Related formsex·og·a·mous [ek-sog-uh-muh s] /ɛkˈsɒg ə məs/, ex·o·gam·ic [ek-suh-gam-ik] /ˌɛk səˈgæm ɪk/, adjective Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019 Examples from the Web for exogamic Historical Examples of exogamic
If a group is exogamic, the women in it were born abroad somewhere.
William Graham Sumner
Lang adds that these taboos are the basis of exogamic practices.
The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life
Emile Durkheim
The Seri are loosely organised in a number of exogamic, matrilineal, totemic clans.
Agustus Henry Keane
The Arunta ‘exogamic groups’ are ‘classes,’ and ‘phratries,’ the totem does not now regulate marriage among the Arunta.
Andrew Lang
Yet Mr. Spencer remarks that ‘the development of exogamic groups’ gradually resulted from some organisation of unknown nature.
Andrew Lang
British Dictionary definitions for exogamic exogamy noun sociol anthropol the custom or an act of marrying a person belonging to another tribe, clan, or similar social unitCompare endogamy biology fusion of gametes from parents that are not closely related Derived Formsexogamous (ɛkˈsɒɡəməs) or exogamic (ˌɛksəʊˈɡæmɪk), adjective Collins English Dictionary – Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Word Origin and History for exogamic exogamy n.
1865, Modern Latin, literally “outside marriage,” from exo- + -gamy. Related: Exogamous.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper exogamic in Medicine exogamy [ĕk-sŏg′ə-mē] n. Sexual reproduction by means of conjugation of two gametes of different ancestry, as in certain protozoan species. The American Heritage® Stedman’s Medical Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company.
