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Marry Definition And Meaning |
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What's The Definition Of Marry?
[v] take in marriage
[v] perform a marriage ceremony; "The minister married us on Saturday"; "We were wed the following week"; "The couple got spliced on Hawaii" Synonyms | Synonyms for Marry: conjoin | espouse | get hitched with | get married | hook up with | wed Related Terms | Find terms related to Marry: accouple | accumulate | affiliate | agglutinate | ally | amalgamate | amass | arrange a match | articulate | assemble | associate | band | band together | be in cahoots | be made one | be spliced | become one | bond | bracket | bridge | bridge over | bunch | bunch up | cabal | catch | cement | cement a union | centralize | chain | clap together | club | club together | collect | combine | come together | comprise | concatenate | confederate | conglobulate | conjoin | conjugate | connect | consociate | conspire | contract matrimony | copulate | couple | cover | embrace | encompass | espouse | federalize | federate | fit | fit together | fuse | gang | gang up | gather | get hitched | give away | glue | go in partners | go in partnership | go together | hitch | hook up with | include | intermarry | interwed | join | join forces | join fortunes with | join together | join up with | join with | knot | lay together | league | link | lump together | make a match | make one | marshal | mass | match | mate | merge | miscegenate | mobilize | nuptial | one | organize | pair | pair off | partner | piece together | put together | relate | remarry | rewed | roll into one | solder | span | splice | stand together | stand up with | stick together | take in | take to wife | tape | team up with | team with | throw in with | tie | tie in with | tie up with | unify | unionize | unite | unite in marriage | unite with | wed | weld | wive | yoke See Also | inmarry | intermarry | mismarry | officiate | remarry | solemnise | solemnize | unify | unite | wive Marry In Webster's Dictionary \Mar"ry\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Married}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Marrying}.] [OE. marien, F. marier, L. maritare, fr. maritus
husband, fr. mas, maris, a male. See {Male}, and cf.
{Maritral}.]
1. To unite in wedlock or matrimony; to perform the ceremony
of joining, as a man and a woman, for life; to constitute
(a man and a woman) husband and wife according to the laws
or customs of the place.
Tell him that he shall marry the couple himself.
--Gay.
2. To join according to law, (a man) to a woman as his wife,
or (a woman) to a man as her husband. See the Note to def.
4.
A woman who had been married to her twenty-fifth
husband, and being now a widow, was prohibited to
marry. --Evelyn.
3. To dispose of in wedlock; to give away as wife.
M[ae]cenas took the liberty to tell him [Augustus]
that he must either marry his daughter [Julia] to
Agrippa, or take away his life. --Bacon.
4. To take for husband or wife. See the Note below.
Note: We say, a man is married to or marries a woman; or, a
woman is married to or marries a man. Both of these
uses are equally well authorized; but given in marriage
is said only of the woman.
They got him [the Duke of Monmouth] . . . to
declare in writing, that the last king [Charles
II.] told him he was never married to his mother.
--Bp. Lloyd.
5. Figuratively, to unite in the closest and most endearing
relation.
Turn, O backsliding children, saith the Lord; for I
am married unto you. --Jer. iii.
14.
{To marry ropes}. (Naut.)
(a) To place two ropes along side of each other so that
they may be grasped and hauled on at the same time.
(b) To join two ropes end to end so that both will pass
through a block. --Ham. Nav. Encyc.
\Mar"ry\, v. i. To enter into the conjugal or connubial state; to take a husband or a wife. I will, therefore, that the younger women marry. --1 Tim. v. 14. {Marrying man}, a man disposed to marry. [Colloq.] \Mar"ry\, interj. Indeed ! in truth ! -- a term of asseveration said to have been derived from the practice of swearing by the Virgin Mary. [Obs.] --Shak. |
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