Word Meanings - DESPONSORY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A written pledge of marriage. Clarendon.
Related words: (words related to DESPONSORY)
- PLEDGERY
A pledging; suretyship. - PLEDGE
The transfer of possession of personal property from a debtor to a creditor as security for a debt or engagement; also, the contract created between the debtor and creditor by a thing being so delivered or deposited, forming a species of bailment; - PLEDGEOR; PLEDGOR
One who pledges, or delivers anything in pledge; a pledger; -- opposed to Ant: pledgee. Note: This word analogically requires the e after g, but the spelling pledgor is perhaps commoner. - PLEDGELESS
Having no pledge. - MARRIAGEABILITY
The quality or state of being marriageable. - PLEDGER
One who pledges. - PLEDGEE
The one to whom a pledge is given, or to whom property pledged is delivered. - 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 - WRITTEN
p. p. of Write, v. - PLEDGET
A string of oakum used in calking. (more info) 1. A small plug. - MARRIAGEABLE
Fit for, or capable of, marriage; of an age at which marriage is allowable. -- Mar"riage*a*ble*ness, n. - CLARENDON
A style of type having a narrow and heave face. It is made in all sizes. Note: This line is in nonpareil Clarendon. - INTERPLEDGE
To pledge mutually. - SAFE-PLEDGE
A surety for the appearance of a person at a given time. Bracton. - IMPLEDGE
To pledge. Sir W. Scott. - UNWRITTEN
1. Not written; not reduced to writing; oral; as, unwritten agreements. 2. Containing no writing; blank; as, unwritten paper. Unwritten doctrines , such doctrines as have been handed down by word of mouth; oral or traditional doctrines. - INTERMARRIAGE
Connection by marriage; reciprocal marriage; giving and taking in marriage, as between two families, tribes, castes, or nations. - FRANKPLEDGE
A pledge or surety for the good behavior of freemen, -- each freeman who was a member of an ancient decennary, tithing, or friborg, in England, being a pledge for the good conduct of the others, for the preservation of the public peace; a free - FRANK-MARRIAGE
A certain tenure in tail special; an estate of inheritance given to a man his wife , and descendible to the heirs of their two bodies begotten. Blackstone. - REMARRIAGE
A second or repeated marriage.