Word Meanings - MARRY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

Additional info about word: MARRY

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, 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. Mæcenas took the liberty to tell him that he must either marry his daughter 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 . . . to declare in writing, that the last king 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. To place two ropes along side of each other so that they may be grasped and hauled on at the same time. To join two ropes end to end so that both will pass through a block. Ham. Nav. Encyc.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of MARRY)

• Wed
• Link
• marry
• espouse

Related words: (words related to MARRY)

• MARRY
  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
• ESPOUSER
  One who espouses; one who embraces the cause of another or makes it his own.
• ESPOUSE
  espouse, fr. sponsus betrothed, p. p. of spondere to promise solemnly 1. To betroth; to promise in marriage; to give as spouse. A virgin espoused to a man whose name was Joseph. Luke i. 27. 2. To take as spouse; to take to wife; to marry. Lavinia
• ESPOUSEMENT
  The act of espousing, or the state of being espoused.
• UNMARRY
  To annul the marriage of; to divorce. Milton.
• DISESPOUSE
  To release from espousal or plighted faith. Milton.
• INTERMARRY
  To become connected by marriage between their members; to give and take mutually in marriage; -- said of families, ranks, castes, etc. About the middle of the fourth century from the building of Rome, it was declared lawful for nobles and plebeians
• REMARRY
  To marry again.
• DISMARRY
  To free from the bonds of marriage; to divorce. Ld. Berners.