Posted by Darth Dobbin at 208-58-249-22.s22.tnt1.nwhv.ct.dialup.rcn.com on June 14, 2000 at 01:51:18:
You are both right, in and of a sort:
Usage Note: Historically, celibate means only “unmarried”; its use to mean “abstaining from sexual intercourse” is a 20th-century development. But the new sense of the word appears more or less to have displaced the old, and the use of celibate to mean “unmarried” is now almost sure to invite misinterpretation in other than narrowly ecclesiastical contexts. Sixty-eight percent of the Usage Panel rejected the older use in the sentence He remained celibate [unmarried], although he engaged in sexual intercourse.
Keeping this on topic, MAN ARE THOSE BANKY HATS COOL. Or something.