Agapemoae, Or Abode Of Love (Gr. love, and abode), an establishment at Charlynch, Somersetshire, England, about 9 m. from Taunton, where a number of persons associated themselves together in 1846 under the name of "Family of Love," and under the guidance of several clergymen, the principal of whom are Henry James Prince and a Mr. Starkey, the former allowing himself to be addressed as "the Lord." The prevailing idea of the sect is that perpetual enjoyment is the sole aim of spiritual and material existence. The relations between the sexes, however, are said to be governed by mutual affinities and attractions, but members of the family of love maintain matrimonial unions while the attraction lasts, and polygamy is forbidden. The life at the Agapemone soon became a matter of public notoriety in consequence of a lawsuit for the custody of a child between a Mr. and Mrs. Thomas, two of Prince's converts. In 1859 Prince published his "Journal," in which he states that he considers himself perfect and incapable of further improvement.