English

Noun

cælibacy ‎(uncountable)

1. Archaic spelling of celibacy.
   • 1750, “The Female Student”, The Student, or, The Oxford and Cambridge monthly miscellany, page 188:

     Beſides there is an aukward kind of baſhfulneſs inherent in an old collegian, which makes him ſhudder even at the ſight of a petticoat, and often condems him, during life, to an irkſome ſtate of cælibacy.