Word Meanings - INTERMARRIAGE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Connection by marriage; reciprocal marriage; giving and taking in marriage, as between two families, tribes, castes, or nations.

Related words: (words related to INTERMARRIAGE)

• TAKING
  1. Apt to take; alluring; attracting. Subtile in making his temptations most taking. Fuller. 2. Infectious; contageous. Beau. & Fl. -- Tak"ing*ly, adv. -- Tak"ing*ness, n.
• GIVES
  Fetters.
• GIVING
  1. The act of bestowing as a gift; a conferring or imparting. 2. A gift; a benefaction. Pope. 3. The act of softening, breaking, or yielding. "Upon the first giving of the weather." Addison. Giving in, a falling inwards; a collapse. -- Giving
• TAKE
  Taken. Chaucer.
• RECIPROCALLY
  In the manner of reciprocals. Reciprocally proportional (Arith. & Alg.), proportional, as two variable quantities, so that the one shall have a constant ratio to the reciprocal of the other. (more info) 1. In a reciprocal manner; so that
• TAKE-OFF
  An imitation, especially in the way of caricature.
• RECIPROCAL
  Reflexive; -- applied to pronouns and verbs, but sometimes limited to such pronouns as express mutual action. (more info) 1. Recurring in vicissitude; alternate. 2. Done by each to the other; interchanging or interchanged; given and received; due
• RECIPROCALNESS
  The quality or condition of being reciprocal; mutual return; alternateness.
• TAKE-IN
  Imposition; fraud.
• GIVER
  One who gives; a donor; a bestower; a grantor; one who imparts or distributes. It is the giver, and not the gift, that engrosses the heart of the Christian. Kollock.
• MARRIAGEABILITY
  The quality or state of being marriageable.
• MARRIAGE
  1. The act of marrying, or the state of being married; legal union of a man and a woman for life, as husband and wife; wedlock; matrimony. Marriage is honorable in all. Heb. xiii. 4. 2. The marriage vow or contract. Chaucer. 3. A feast made on
• GIVEN
  p. p. & a. from Give, v.
• BETWEEN
  betweónum; prefix be- by + a form fr. AS. twa two, akin to Goth. 1. In the space which separates; betwixt; as, New York is between Boston and Philadelphia. 2. Used in expressing motion from one body or place to another; from one to another of
• TAKE-UP
  That which takes up or tightens; specifically, a device in a sewing machine for drawing up the slack thread as the needle rises, in completing a stitch.
• GIVE
  To set forth as a known quantity or a known relation, or as a premise from which to reason; -- used principally in the passive form given. 9. To allow or admit by way of supposition. I give not heaven for lost. Mlton. 10. To attribute; to assign;
• MARRIAGEABLE
  Fit for, or capable of, marriage; of an age at which marriage is allowable. -- Mar"riage*a*ble*ness, n.
• TAKING-OFF
  Removal; murder. See To take off , under Take, v. t. The deep damnation of his taking-off. Shak.
• TAKEN
  p. p. of Take.
• TAKER
  One who takes or receives; one who catches or apprehended.
• UNMISTAKABLE
  Incapable of being mistaken or misunderstood; clear; plain; obvious; evident. -- Un`mis*tak"a*bly, adv.
• TERGIVERSATOR
  One who tergiversates; one who suffles, or practices evasion.
• LEAVE-TAKING
  Taking of leave; parting compliments. Shak.
• MISTAKING
  An error; a mistake. Shak.
• THANKSGIVING
  1. The act of rending thanks, or expressing gratitude for favors or mercies. Every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving. 1 Tim. iv. 4. In the thanksgiving before meat. Shak. And taught by thee
• MISTAKINGLY
  Erroneously.
• ALMSGIVING
  The giving of alms.
• MISGIVING
  Evil premonition; doubt; distrust. "Suspicious and misgivings." South.
• FUNGIVOROUS
  Eating fungi; -- said of certain insects and snails.
• DISCONNECTION
  The act of disconnecting, or state of being disconnected; separation; want of union. Nothing was therefore to be left in all the subordinate members but weakness, disconnection, and confusion. Burke.
• OUTTAKE
  Except. R. of Brunne.
• REGIVE
  To give again; to give back.
• FORGIVER
  One who forgives. Johnson.
• STAKTOMETER
  A drop measurer; a glass tube tapering to a small orifice at the point, and having a bulb in the middle, used for finding the number of drops in equal quantities of different liquids. See Pipette. Sir D. Brewster.
• DELTA CONNECTION
  One of the usual forms or methods for connecting apparatus to a three-phase circuit, the three corners of the delta or triangle, as diagrammatically represented, being connected to the three wires of the supply circuit.
• OGIVE
  The arch or rib which crosses a Gothic vault diagonally.
• SIDE-TAKING
  A taking sides, as with a party, sect, or faction. Bp. Hall.