n.
The criminal offense of marrying one person while still legally married to another.
[Middle English bigamie, from Old French, from Medieval Latin bigamia, from Late Latin bigamus, twice married : Latin bi-, two; see bi-1 + Greek gamos, marriage; see -gamous.]
bigamist big'a·mist n.
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