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wedded, ppl. a.|ˈwɛdɪd|
[f. wed v. + -ed1.]
1. Joined in wedlock; living in the married state.
a800Conf. Abp. Ecgbert xx. in Thorpe Laws (1840) II. 146 Ða ᵹeweddodan fæmnan [L. puellam desponsatam] hire yldran hi ne moton syllan oðrum men. c1175Lamb. Hom. 143 Þe weddede wiues. c1200Ormin 4604 Weddedd were & weddedd wif. 13..Cursor M. 10458 (Gött.) Quar-of suld i haue ioy or bliss, Quen i mi weddid lauerd miss? c1381Chaucer Parl. Foules 355 The wedded turtil with hire herte trewe. c1412Hoccleve De Reg. Princ. 1623 And many wedded couples haue I knowe. 1548–9Bk. Com. Prayer, Matrimony 13 b, N. wilte thou haue this woman to thy wedded wife. 1607Shakes. Per. iii. iv. 9 My wedded Lord, I nere shall see againe. 1667Milton P.L. viii. 605 Harmonie to behold in wedded pair More grateful then harmonious sound to the eare. 1717Pope Eloïsa 77 Let wealth, let honour, wait the wedded dame. 1740Richardson Pamela (1824) I. 205, I have been a close observer of the behaviour of wedded folks. 1798T. Morton Speed the Plough v. i, She is my wife... My lawful, wedded wife. 1848Mrs. Gaskell Mary Barton xxxiii, If she lives, she shall be my wedded wife. 1908G. Tyrrell in M. D. Petre Life (1912) II. 380, I thought that Utrecht would faint at the idea of a wedded bishop.
b. absol. rare.
c1230Hali Meid. 5 Þat bihald as of heh alle widewen under hire & weddede baðe. 1450–1530Myrr. Our Ladye ii. 149 She fayled not..the chastyte of vyrgyns ne the plenteousnesse of wedded. a1849J. C. Mangan Poems (1859) 62 Who pleads for thee thus, thy wedded shall be.
2. Of or pertaining to marriage or to married persons.
1592Shakes. Rom. & Jul. i. v. 137 (Fo.) Go aske his name: if he be married, My graue is like to be my wedded bed [Qq. wedding bed]. 1667Milton P.L. iv. 750 Haile wedded Love, mysterious Law, true sourse Of human ofspring. 1709Steele Tatler No. 184 ⁋2 As soon as she took upon her the wedded Condition. 1823Scott Quentin D. xxxi, I care not myself for the wedded state. 1830Coleridge Table-t. 27 Sept., Luther has sketched the most beautiful picture of the nature, and ends, and duties of the wedded life I ever read. 1866Neale Sequences & Hymns 130 And wedded troth remains as firm, and wedded love as pure. 1888Burgon Lives 12 Gd. Men II. v. 8 The sun of his wedded happiness set in this same year.
3. Obstinately attached (to an indulgence, a habit, opinion, party, etc.).
1579Lyly Euphues (Arb.) 117 If thou be either so wicked that thou wilt not, or so wedded that thou canst not abstein from their glaunces. 1721Mortimer Husb. i. 1 The wedded Opinions of the Generality to the Custom and Practice of their Neighbours. 1854C. E. Norton Lett. (1913) I. 106 New Hampshire,..the most wedded of all the Northern States to the Democratic party.
4. Of things: Coupled or joined together.
1842Tennyson Godiva 43 Then fled she to her inmost bower and there Unclasp'd the wedded eagles of her belt. 1916Blackw. Mag. Nov. 572/1 The country-side [Italy]..with its wedded vines and elms.
†5. wedded brother = wed-brother (see wed n. 6). Obs. rare.
c1350Athelston ii. (Zupitza), For loue of here metyng þare Þey swoor hem weddyd breþeryn for euer mare, In trewþe trewely dede hem bynde. Ibid. xiv, Þy weddid broþir.
Hence † ˈweddedhood [-hood], ˈweddedness [-ness], wedded state or condition.
a1450Myrc Par. Pr. 212 Dedly synne hyt ys forthe broght, Saue in here wedhode [v.r. wededhood] That ys feyre to-fore gode. 1891Harper's Mag. July 181/1 His weddedness. 1903Ld. R. Gower Rec. & Remin. 538 He and his wife appear exceedingly fond of one another, a rare and refreshing state of weddedness nowadays. |