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wedding, vbl. n.|ˈwɛdɪŋ|
Forms: 1 weddung, 3 weddingue, 4 weddin, 5 -yn, 4–5 weding, -yng, 4–6 weddyng(e, -inge, 6 Sc. vedding, 3– wedding.
[f. wed v. + -ing1.]
1. The action of marrying; marriage, espousal. Chiefly gerundial. † Also, the married state, wedlock, matrimony (obs.).
c1000Gosp. Nicod. vii. 3 in Thwaites Hept. (1698), Seo weddung wæs beweddod, eal swa eowre aᵹene ðeoda secgaþ. c1250Gen. & Ex. 1428 Siðen men hauen holden skil, first to freinen ðe wimmanes wil, Or or men hire to louerd giue, for wedding or for morgen-giwe. c1290St. Edmund Conf. 97 in S. Eng. Leg. 434 Wel he huld is treuþe setþe and his weddingue also, And trewe spouse was inovȝ. a1300K. Horn 423 Hit nere no fair wedding Bitwexe a þral & a king. 1362Langl. P. Pl. A. x. 178 Summe..For Couetise of Catel vnkuyndeliche beoþ maried, And Careful Concepcion comeþ of such weddyng. 1375Barbour Bruce i. 267 Wedding is the hardest band That ony man may tak on hand. a1400Chaucer Envoy to Bukton 24 So may happe That the were leuer to be take in Frise Than eft falle of weddynge in the trappe. c1460Towneley Myst. xiii. 92 Be well war of wedyng. 1483Cath. Angl. 412/1 Ye secund Weddynge, bigamia, deutrogamia. 1490Caxton Eneydos xiv. 52 My sone hyemen, whiche is named the god of weddynge. 1564Brief Exam. *****iij, Who vsed the ring fyrst in weddyng? the Heathen. 1599Shakes. Much Ado ii. i. 76 Wooing, wedding, and repenting, is as a Scotch ijgge, a measure, and a cinque-pace.
Prov.1562J. Heywood Prov. & Epigr. (1867) 129 Weddyng and hangyng are desteny.
2. a. The performance of the marriage-rite; the ceremony of a marriage, with its attendant festivities.
This is the word in general use for this sense.
c1300K. Horn 1295 (Laud) He rongen þe bellen Þe wedding [Cambr. wedlak] for to fullen. c1386Chaucer Knt.'s T. 25 The feste that was at hir weddynge. 1490Caxton Eneydos lxiii. 163 Moche Ioye was there made atte theyr weddynge. 1526Tindale Matt. xxii. 10 The weddinge was furnysshed with gestes. 1530Palsgr. 287/2 Weddyng, nopces. 1602Shakes. Ham. i. ii. 178, I thinke it was to see my Mothers Wedding. 1663Killigrew Pars. Wedd. v. ii, I'll run and invite them to the Wedding. 1754Richardson Grandison V. lv. 347 Every woman's heart leaps..when a wedding is described. 1797Sir F. M. Eden St. Poor I. 598 The custom of a general feasting at weddings and christenings. 1848Dickens Dombey v, The very wedding looked dismal as they passed in front of the altar. 1885‘Mrs. Alexander’ At Bay x, Are you to be at the Milton wedding next week? 1897S. A. Brooke in Jacks Life & Lett. (1917) II. 532, I am told the wedding went off well.
fig.a1901F. W. H. Myers Hum. Personality (1903) II. 295 Since that great wedding between Reason and Experience, which immortalises the name of Galileo.
b. Phr. penny wedding: see penny 12 c. silver wedding [G. silberhochzeit, silberne hochzeit], the 25th anniversary of a wedding (see silver n. 20). golden wedding, the 50th anniversary. diamond wedding, the 60th or 75th anniversary (see diamond n. 12).
1850J. von Tautphœus Initials I. v. 121 ‘Perhaps you have no golden or silver wedding in England?’ ‘I confess I never heard of any thing of the kind,’ said Hamilton... ‘To be fifty years married and to have a golden wedding, is a sort of event in a family.’ 1860Illustr. Lond. News 24 Nov. 485/3 The celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the marriage of Prince William of Hesse and the Princess Charlotte... This ‘golden wedding’, as such an event is called [etc.]. 1874Longfellow Hanging of Crane vii, It is the Golden Wedding day.
†3. Occas. found in other senses of the verb: Close union or association; the action of pledging or wagering. Obs.
c1380[see wed v. 7 b]. c1380Wyclif Sel. Wks. III. 431 But Lord! wheþer weddyng wiþ siche signes helpiþ to holde religioun of Crist, and love hym of hert? ― Wks. (1880) 448 Wedding wiþ þes newe bilawis, passinge þe wedding wiþ goddis lawe, makiþ þes newe rotun sectis. 1503Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scot. II. 401 Item, the xj day of October, to the King quhilk he tynt on wedding with the Abbot of Cambuskinneth, xiiij s.
4. a. attrib., as wedding-anniversary, wedding-appearance, wedding-banquet, wedding-bed, wedding-bell, wedding-chamber, † wedding-cheer, wedding-clothes, wedding-coat, wedding-dinner, wedding-dower, wedding-dress, wedding-feast, wedding festival, wedding-gown, wedding-guest, wedding-journey, wedding-mass, wedding-night, wedding-peal, wedding photo, wedding photograph, wedding-present, wedding-robe, wedding-sermon, † wedding smock, wedding-song, wedding-suit, wedding-supper, wedding-table, wedding-torch, wedding tour, † wedding trim, wedding trip, wedding visit.
a1700Evelyn Diary 13 Aug. 1673, It being his *wedding anniversarie. 1971‘D. Halliday’ Dolly & Doctor Bird iii. 33 It's our wedding anniversary.
1748Richardson Clarissa (1768) IV. 257 How bravely shall we enter a court,..dressed out each man, as if to his *wedding-appearance.
1855Longfellow Hiaw. xii. 372 Thus the *wedding-banquet ended.
1592Shakes. Rom. & Jul. i. v. 137 (Qo. 1599) If he be married, My graue is like to be my *wedding bed. 1685? Dryden Daphnis 64 in Sylvæ 118, I bargain for a wedding Bed at least.
a1849Poe The Bells ii, Hear the mellow *wedding bells.
1552Huloet, *Weddynge chamber, thalamus. 1611Bible 2 Esdras x. 1 When my sonne was entred into his wedding chamber, he fell downe and died.
1592Shakes. Rom. & Jul. iv. v. 87 Our *wedding cheare [turns] to a sad buriall Feast.
1678Butler Hud. iii. i. 737 The Bride, That with her *Wedding-cloaths undresses Her Complaisance and Gentilesses. 1824Miss Mitford Village I. 288 Betsy..prepared her wedding-clothes, and looked hourly for the bridegroom.
1838M. R. Walker Let. 27 July in C. M. Drury Elkanah & Mary Walker (1940) iii. 92, I was glad indeed to see him safe & sound with his cloths sadly rent having lost his coat his *wedding coat. 1857Dickens Lett. (1880) II. 26 A pair of common nankeen tights,..and blue wedding-coat.
1633Rowley Match at Midn. ii. i. D 2 b, One *wedding dinner must serve both marriages. 1835Dickens Sk. Boz, Mistaken Milliner, Miss Amelia Martin was invited..to honour the wedding-dinner with her presence.
1591Shakes. Two Gent. iii. i. 78 Then let her beauty be her *wedding dowre.
1801M. Edgeworth Belinda II. xxxi. 357 Something must be left to the imagination. Positively I will not describe *wedding dresses. 1863Kingsley Water-Bab. ii, They helped her on with her wedding-dress.
1633Ford 'Tis Pity iii. v, They that now dreame of a *wedding-feast, May chance to mourne the lusty Bridegromes ruine. 1855Longfellow Hiaw. xi (heading), Hiawatha's Wedding-feast.
1795–6Wordsw. Borderers i. 331 The villagers Are flocking in—a *wedding festival.
1439E.E. Wills (1882) 118 My *weddynggown and all my clothis of gold. 1767Murphy School for Guard. iv. iv. 66, I have brought your young lady's wedding-gown.
1798Coleridge Anc. Mar. i. 31 The *Wedding-Guest here beat his breast, For he heard the loud bassoon.
1841Thackeray Gt. Hoggarty Diam. in Fraser's Mag. Nov. 598/1 She lent us her chariot for the *wedding journey. 1881Howells (title), Their Wedding Journey.
1612Webster White Devil ii. i. 190 Accursed be the priest That sang the *wedding masse.
1661Pepys Diary 10 Oct., So home, and intended to be merry, it being my sixth *wedding night. 1682Otway Venice Preserved i. 7 The very bed, which on thy wedding night Receiv'd thee to the Arms of Belvidera. 1835Dickens Sk. Boz, Mr. Watkins Tottle i, I spent my wedding-night in a back-kitchen chimney.
1808Skurray Bidcombe Hill 25 note, In the village of Horningsham..it is customary, when a young person dies unmarried, to ring the *wedding peal on muffled bells, immediately on the interment of the corpse.
1966P. Willmott Adolescent Boys iii. 46 They showed us different *wedding photos.
1956Focal Encycl. Photogr. 1273/2 A good set of *wedding photographs calls for a surprising amount of planning and organization. 1972C. Fremlin Appointment with Yesterday x. 76 Cora should have received the wedding photograph.
1854C. Schreiber Jrnl. 27 May (1952) 35 My *wedding present to Felicia, a white and gold bookcase. 1898G. B. Shaw Plays II. Candida 81 A travelling clock in a leather case (the inevitable wedding present).
1450–1530Myrr. Our Ladye ii. 238 Thys noble yonge lorde ys clad in a new *weddynge robe.
1694T. Brown Lottery for Ladies & G. Wks. 1711 IV. 169 Dr. B―s shall preach the *Wedding Sermon.
c1610Beaum. & Fl. Scornf. Lady i. i, If my *Wedding smock were on. 1648Herrick Hesper., ‘Come sit we under yonder Tree’ 22 Next we will..talke of Brides; and who shall make That wedding-smock, this Bridal-Cake.
1598R. Bernard Terence, Adelphi v. vii. (1607) 327 They which sing the *wedding song.
1594Taming of a Shrew (1844) 22 For this I sweare shall be my *wedding sute. 1728Cibber Provoked Husb. iii. i. 53 The Wedding-suit of a first Dutchess. 1807Wedding suit [see family tree s.v. family n. 11]. 1959W. Faulkner Mansion xiii. 296 Maybe he picked it up along with that-ere white wedding suit.
1695Congreve Love for L. iv. xv, Ha, ha, ha! That a Man shou'd have a Stomach to a *Wedding Supper, when the Pidgeons ought rather to be laid to his feet. 1961New Eng. Bible Rev. xix. 9 Happy are those who are invited to the wedding-supper of the Lamb!
1722Ramsay Three Bonnets iv. 53 To tell how meikle cakes and ale..Was serv'd upon the *wedding-table.
1591Shakes. 1 Hen. VI, iii. ii. 26 Behold, this is the happy *Wedding Torch, That ioyneth Roan vnto her Countreymen.
1847C. M. Yonge Scenes & Characters xxxi. 340 The wedding had been hurried on, and the *wedding-tour was shortened. 1955C. Carrington Rudyard Kipling ix. 201 It will not be necessary to retrace Rudyard's steps throughout his wedding tour.
a1729Tickell Colin & Lucy 43 He in his *wedding-trim so gay, I in my winding-sheet!
1855Dickens Dorrit (1857) i. ii. 17 A clerical English husband..on a *wedding trip with his young wife. 1925F. Scott Fitzgerald Great Gatsby viii. 183 Tom and Daisy were still on their wedding trip. 1974News & Reporter (Chester, S. Carolina) 22 Apr. 4–a/8 After a wedding trip to Charlottesville, Virginia the couple will reside on Morreene Road, Durham.
1794J. Woodforde Diary 7 Apr. (1929) IV. 103 Mr. & Mrs. Carbould are gone out for a few days to make a *wedding visit to Mrs. Carbould's Brother at Castor near Yarmouth. 1872Geo. Eliot Middlem. II. iii. xxviii. 89 Through the next weeks there would be wedding visits received and given.
b. wedding band U.S. = wedding-ring; wedding-breakfast, the entertainment given at the bride's house etc. after the marriage-ceremony and before the departure for the honeymoon; cf. breakfast n. 2 b; wedding-bush, a shrub of the genus Ricinocarpos, of the family Euphorbiaceæ, esp. R. pinifolius, which is native to eastern Australia and bears clusters of fragrant white flowers; wedding-cake, a large rich cake, covered with icing and decorated with sugar ornaments, cut and distributed to the guests at the wedding-feast and sent in small portions to absent friends; also attrib.; also fig., esp. applied attrib. (often somewhat dismissively) to a sumptuously ornate style of architecture, and (also absol.) to buildings in this style; wedding canopy Judaism = chuppah; wedding-cards, cards, bearing the names of the two parties, sent out to friends as an announcement of the wedding; also in sing.; wedding-chest, an ornamental chest made to contain a bride's clothes, etc.; † wedding church door = wedding door; wedding-coffer = wedding-chest; wedding-day, the day on which a marriage is performed, or which is fixed for the marriage; also, an anniversary of this day; also attrib.; † wedding door, the church-door, or porch, at which couples were married; wedding-favour, a knot of white ribbon, or a white rosette, sometimes worn by guests at a wedding; wedding-finger = ring-finger; wedding-flower, (a) Moræa (Iris) robinsoniana, of Lord Howe's Island, N.S.W.; (b) Dombeya natalensis, of S. Africa; wedding-garment, a garment appropriate to, or customarily worn at, a wedding; also fig. (with ref. to Matt. xxii. 11–12); † wedding-garter, a garter worn as a wedding-favour; wedding group, (a photograph of) a wedding party; † wedding-house = bridehouse; † wedding kirk door = wedding door; † wedding-knives, ? a pair of knives worn at the girdle by a bride; wedding-knot, (a) fig. the bond of matrimony; (b) Naut., a tie for uniting the looped ends of two ropes (Knight Dict. Mech. 1875); wedding list, a list of acceptable wedding gifts for guests to consult and act upon; wedding-march, a march (Mendelssohn's, if not otherwise specified) composed for performance at a wedding; † wedding-monger, one who is busied about a wedding; wedding party, the assemblage of persons at a wedding; wedding reception, a party at which the wedding guests are formally greeted and entertained after the marriage ceremony; cf. reception 2 d; wedding-ring, a ring, usually of plain gold, placed by the bridegroom on the third finger of the bride's left hand as part of the ceremony, and worn by her ever after; a ring similarly presented by the bride to the bridegroom, and worn afterwards by him; also attrib. and fig.; wedding-sheet, a sheet laid on the bridal bed and sometimes kept to form a shroud for the bride at her death.
1946R. Lyle Mademoiselle's Handbk. Bridal Consultants vi. 79 *Wedding bands have in centuries past been made of iron as well as gold. 1977‘E. McBain’ Long Time no See i. 16 On the third finger of his left hand, there was a wedding band.
1850Thackeray Pendennis II. xv. 144 There is a *wedding breakfast. 1853Dickens Bleak Ho. xxx, To make the furnished lodging decent for the wedding-breakfst. 1859Habits Gd. Society xv. 372 It must be borne in mind that the wedding-breakfast is not a dinner. 1962Sunday Times 11 Nov. 25/4 They married in church, and had a wedding breakfast but no honeymoon.
1923Census of Plants of Victoria (Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria) 41 *Wedding Bush. 1961Wedding-bush [see manna1 9].
1648Herrick Hesper., Bride-Cake, This day my Julia thou must make for Mistresse Bride, the *wedding cake. 1798Coleridge Three Graves 60 The wedding-cake with her own hand The ruthless mother brought. 1879Mrs. F. D. Bridges Jrnl. Lady's Trav. iii. (1883) 43 The Palace, somewhat of the wedding-cake style of architecture, all over stucco ornaments and whitewash. 1925F. Scott Fitzgerald Great Gatsby i. 8 A breeze..blew curtains,..twisting them up toward the frosted wedding-cake of the ceiling. 1949H. G. Alsberg Amer. Guide 105 Kennebunk..Among numerous old mansions are..Wedding Cake H. (c. 1825), with most unusual Vict. trimmings. 1968N.Y. City (Michelin Tire Corp.) 16 Others [sc. skyscrapers], sometimes known as wedding cakes, were covered with ornate sculpture in the 1900 ‘Gigi style’. 1971J. Willett in A. Bullock 20th Cent. 242/1 A massive piece of wedding-cake architecture (..fortunately never built) for the projected Palace of Soviets in Moscow.
1892I. Zangwill Childr. Ghetto I. 37 The hope was expressed that Mr. and Mrs. Belcovitch would like..to see their daughters' daughters under the Chuppah, or *wedding canopy. 1978I. B. Singer Shosha iv. 74 You should lead your daughter to a black wedding canopy!
1847C. M. Yonge Scenes & Characters ii. 9 She was putting her sister's *wedding cards into their shining envelopes. 1867A. J. Wilson Vashti xxix, I..noticed a basket containing some of the wedding cards. 1888A. K. Green Behind Closed Doors ii, My daughter's wedding-cards are out. 1953Dylan Thomas Let. 31 Mar. (1966) 401 Had your wedding card. Congratulations.
1874J. H. Pollen Anc. & Mod. Furniture S. Kens. Mus. 127 Coffer..The figures of angels..on the ends and the front panel are uninjured. It has been a *wedding chest.
1560Ludlow Churchw. Acc. (Camden) 97 Paid..for mendynge..the window over the *wedinge churche dore.
1904Studio Sept. 303/2 *Wedding-coffers, or ‘cassones,’ as they are sometimes called.
a1553Udall Royster D. i. iv. (Arb.) 26 What weepe on the *weddyng day? be merrie woman. 1592Shakes. Rom. & Jul. iv. v. 35 O Sonne, the night before thy wedding day, Hath death laine with thy wife. a1700Evelyn Diary 18 Nov. 1659, Sir John Evelyn invited us to the 41st wedding-day feast. 1782Cowper Gilpin 9 Though wedded we have been These twice ten tedious years, yet we No holiday have seen. Tomorrow is our wedding-day. 1847C. Brontë J. Eyre xxxvii, The third day from this must be our wedding-day, Jane.
1470–3Rec. Andover 11 Paid vnto John helyer for reperacon don at the *weddyndor, vid. 1636in Swayne Churchw. Acc. Sarum (1896) 205 A gallerie over the Wedding doare in the Church.
1681W. Robertson Phraseol. Gen. 592/1 A *wedding favour, Lemniscus nuptialis. 1882Besant Revolt of Man xi. (1883) 263 The church was crammed with the guests in wedding-favours.
1542Recorde Gr. Artes P ij, The *weddyng fynger (whiche is the nexte to the little fynger). 1548Patten Exped. Scot. H iv, Hurt vppon the weddyng fynger of hys righte hande. 1888‘J. S. Winter’ Bootle's Childr. xiii, She slipped it on to her wedding-finger.
1869in Gardeners' Chron. (1872) 23 Mar. 393/3 A large Iridaceous plant, termed the ‘*Wedding Flower’.
1526Tindale Matt. xxii. 11 The kynge..spyed there a man which had not on a *weddinge garment. c1540Coverdale Fruitful Less. To Rdr. (1593) A 4 b, The old Adam ought we to lay aside..and to put on Christ the Lord, as the new wedding garment. 1596Shakes. Tam. Shr. iv. i. 51 Is supper ready, the house trim'd,..and every officer his wedding-garment on?
1663Butler Hud. i. ii. 524 Are these the fruits o' th' Protestation,..Which all the Saints, and some, since Martyrs, Wore in their Hats, like *Wedding-Garters.
1861Geo. Eliot Silas M. 361 The *wedding group had passed on..to the humbler part of the village. 1930R. Lehmann Note in Music v. 190 The texts, the wedding group, and the photograph of a grave on the wall. 1979J. Adam Smith John Buchan 51 People in Scotland, she said, might like to have wedding groups, but she doubted if it was ever done in London.
c1440Promp. Parv. 519/2 *Weddynge (howus K., hous P.), idem quod Brydale howse, supra. 1483Cath. Angl. 412/1 A Weddyng howse, nuptorium. 1684D'Urfey Pills (1719) II. 31 Willy was late at a Wedding house, Where Lords and Ladies danc'd all arow.
1530Extracts Aberd. Reg. (1844) I. 137 He was found in the *vedding kirk dur with his bonat on his heid.
1596Edw. III, ii. ii. 173 Here by my side doth hang my *wedding knifes. c1620Dekker Match me in London v. (1631) 70 See at my Girdle hang my wedding kniues.
1902‘Roma White’ Backsheesh iii. 33 Of course, from the British Public point of view the Moslem *wedding knot is not altogether respectable.
1981Times 7 Mar. (Bride & Home Suppl.) p. vi/1 Today's brides..confine romance to their wedding dress and..Roneo their less personal requirements... The stores still keeping *wedding lists do provide a valuable service.
1850J. Benedict Sk. Life Mendelssohn 42 The gorgeous *Wedding-march. 1903J. L. Allen Mettle of Pasture ii. 33 The loud crash of the wedding march closed their separate pasts with a single melody.
1671Caryl Sir Salomon ii. 29 By that time the Lawyers, the Taylers, the Semstresses, and riming Poets, with the rest of the *Wedding-Mongers, will have all things in readiness.
1873C. M. Yonge Pillars of House IV. xlvii. 340 The blow was known to all that sad *wedding party. 1877W. S. Gilbert Engaged (? 1883) ii. 31, I have ordered four flys for the wedding party. 1979J. Gardner Nostradamus Traitor xxxv. 165 Another alert. This time the wedding party had to take shelter.
1871A. J. Munby Diary 4 Nov. in D. Hudson Munby (1972) 299 We, Council and Students..offered this evening a *wedding reception to Litchfield and his bride. 1965[see stung ppl. a. 2]. 1978S. Sheldon Bloodline xlv. 374 After the ceremony there was a wedding reception at the Baur-au-Lac.
c1386Chaucer Clerk's T. 812 And heere agayn my clothyng I restoore, And eek my *weddyng ryng. c1540Coverdale Fruitful Less. (1593) Kk 2 b, The same holie Ghost, who is..the earnest pennie of saluation, the wedding ring of grace. 1590Shakes. Com. Err. ii. ii. 139 Wouldst thou not..from my false hand cut the wedding ring? 1630R. Johnson's Kingd. & Commw. 41 The sand about us seemes to be our wedding Ring, and the riches of the Sea our Dowrie. 1704Prior To Yng. Gent. in Love 70 The Moral of the Tale I sing (A Posy for a Wedding Ring). 1853Dickens Bleak Ho. xxvii, The only article of ornament of which she stands possessed appears to be her wedding-ring. 1953Dylan Thomas Under Milk Wood (1954) 74 His mother..with her wedding-ring waist and bust like a black-clothed dining-table suffers in her stays. 1980Quilt World Sept./Oct. 23/1 Sheri's mother feels that it is a single wedding ring quilt because when four blocks are pieced together a ring is formed.
1604Shakes. Oth. iv. ii. 105 Prythee to night, Lay on my bed my *wedding sheetes, remember. 1823Lockhart Reg. Dalton i. viii. (1842) 46 Her wedding-sheet, which, according to the primitive fashion of the district, had been carefully laid by for that purpose, was formed into the shroud which enveloped her remains.
¶ For alternative forms of many of these collocations see bridal 2, bride n.1 5 a, 6, marriage 8, nuptial a. 1. The adjectival force of wedding is recognized in the following quot.:
1530Palsgr. 329/1 (‘The Table of Adjectyves’) Weddyng, belongyng to maryage, nuptial. |