肉にく食じき妻さい帯たい

noun, noun or participle which takes 'suru'

meat-eating and marriage (of a Buddhist priest)

A yojijukugo referring to the practice, historically controversial in Japanese Buddhism, of priests eating meat and taking a wife. Often used in historical or religious contexts.

• 日本にほん仏ぶっ教きょうでは、明めい治じ以い降こうに肉にく食じき妻さい帯たいが広ひろまった。

  In Japanese Buddhism, meat-eating and marriage became widespread after the Meiji period.

• 彼かれは肉にく食じき妻さい帯たいの僧そう侶りょとして知しられている。

  He is known as a priest who eats meat and has a wife.