William allowed the pope's legate to assemble, in his absence, a synod at Winchester, in order to establish the celibacy of the clergy; but the church of England could not yet be carried the whole length expected.

In short, by enforcing celibacy, fasting, and solitude, they have done their best towards making men mad, and they have always largely succeeded in inducing morbid mental conditions among their followers.

They have accepted celibacy and poverty, that they may the better devote their lives to the instruction of children.

I often regret that selfishness, cupidity, and the kind of strife which prevails in our sex, on the road to matrimony, have brought celibacy into disrepute.

Quinby had already proved himself such an arrant gossip as to discount every word that he had said before I placed him in his proper type: it is one which I have encountered elsewhere, that of the middle-aged bachelor who will and must talk, and he had confessed his celibacy almost in his first breath; but a more pronounced specimen of the type I am in no hurry to meet again.

In the small, quaint rooms of Peter-House, Gray consumed a dreary celibacy, consoled by the Muse alone, whoif other damsels found no charms in his somewhat piggish, wooden countenance, or in his manners, replete, it is said, with an unpleasant consciousness of superioritynever deserted him.

It is clear that professional women are beginning to show resentment at the attempt to force celibacy upon them: they feel themselves insulted and wronged as human beings when, being physically and mentally fit, they are not permitted to judge for themselves in this matter.

Many tendenciessuch as club life, the greater ease of securing divorces, the growing independence of women and their disinclination to domesticityare undermining that family life which civilization has so slowly and laboriously built up, and fostering celibacy.

Some 'buses, I gather, are called "single 'buses," but in this case the word does not imply celibacy alone.

Perhaps it is not unnecessary to recall the fact that Gregory VII was the first of the popes to impose celibacy on the clergy.

It is by what you can make of celibacy that the world will judge celibacy.

To maintain celibacy, therefore, was always in accordance with papal policy.

All their priests shave their heads and beards, and are clothed in yellow; and they live in companies of one or two hundred together, observing strict celibacy.

BENEDICK, a wild, witty, and light-hearted young lord of Padua, who vowed celibacy, but fell in love with Beatrice and married her.

The principles of the Shakers, barring celibacy, are sound and practical, and, so far as known, they live up to them quite faithfully.

We house together, old bachelor and maid, in a sort of double singleness; with such tolerable comfort, upon the whole, that I, for one, find in myself no sort of disposition to go out upon the mountains, with the rash king's offspring, to bewail my celibacy.