Word Meanings - WEDLOCK - Book Publishers vocabulary database
lac a gift, an offering. See Wed, n., and cf. Lake, v. i., 1. The ceremony, or the state, of marriage; matrimony. "That blissful yoke . . . that men clepeth spousal, or wedlock." Chaucer. For what is wedlock forced but a hell, An age of discord
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lac a gift, an offering. See Wed, n., and cf. Lake, v. i., 1. The ceremony, or the state, of marriage; matrimony. "That blissful yoke . . . that men clepeth spousal, or wedlock." Chaucer. For what is wedlock forced but a hell, An age of discord or continual strife Shak. 2. A wife; a married woman. B. Jonson. Syn. -- See Marriage.
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- MATRIMONY
1. The union of man and woman as husband and wife; the nuptial state; marriage; wedlock. If either of you know any impediment, why ye may not be lawfully joined together in matrimony, ye do now confessit. Book of Com. Prayer 2. A kind of game at - WEDLOCK
lac a gift, an offering. See Wed, n., and cf. Lake, v. i., 1. The ceremony, or the state, of marriage; matrimony. "That blissful yoke . . . that men clepeth spousal, or wedlock." Chaucer. For what is wedlock forced but a hell, An age of discord - MARRIAGEABILITY
The quality or state of being marriageable. - WEDDAHS
See VEDDAHS - WEDDING
Nuptial ceremony; nuptial festivities; marriage; nuptials. Simple and brief was the wedding, as that of Ruth and of Boaz. Longfellow. Note: Certain anniversaries of an unbroken marriage have received fanciful, and more or less appropriate, names. - COVERTURE
The condition of a woman during marriage, because she is considered under the cover, influence, power, and protection of her husband, and therefore called a feme covert, or femme couverte. (more info) 1. Covering; shelter; defence; hiding. - 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 - WEDDED
1. Joined in wedlock; married. Let wwedded dame. Pope. 2. Of or pertaining to wedlock, or marriage. "Wedded love." Milton. - MARRIAGEABLE
Fit for, or capable of, marriage; of an age at which marriage is allowable. -- Mar"riage*a*ble*ness, n. - WEDDER
See SCOTT - DISCOVERTURE
A state of being released from coverture; freedom of a woman from the coverture of a husband. (more info) 1. Discovery. - INTERMARRIAGE
Connection by marriage; reciprocal marriage; giving and taking in marriage, as between two families, tribes, castes, or nations. - 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.