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married, ppl. a. and n.|ˈmærɪd|
[f. marry v. + -ed1.]
A. ppl. a.
1. a. United to another in wedlock; living in the matrimonial state. married couple, a husband and wife; often in contexts where they are acting jointly as domestic servants.
1362Langl. P. Pl. A. x. 109 Ȝif þou beo Mon I-Mariet..Hold þe stable. 1456Sir G. Haye Law Arms (S.T.S.) 241 The knychtis wyf beris the privilege of hyr maryt husband. 1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 252 Kynges, prynces,..and maryed persones, and all christen people [etc.]. 1606Shakes. Ant. & Cl. i. iii. 20 What says the married woman? 1752Hume Pol. Disc. x. 174 Marry'd slaves..were esteem'd very inconvenient. a1817Jane Austen Persuasion (1818) III. viii. 147 Admiral and Mrs. Croft..among the married couples. 1871Monthly Packet Oct. 388 The grandmother had at that time as lodgers a married couple and a single man. 1890W. Booth In Darkest Eng. ii. vi. 209 We shall be confronted with married couples who..demand that we should provide for them lodgings. 1897M. Kingsley W. Africa 648 Your Kruboy is very much a married man. 1962Times 22 Oct. 1/3 Mr. and Mrs. G. K. require a married couple—chauffeur house-parlourman and cook-housekeeper. 1965J. S. Gunn Terminol. Shearing Indust. ii. 35 s.v. Twins. Two shearers who travel and work together, neither being prepared to ‘take a pen’ unless his mate gets one too. These inseparable mates are sometimes referred to as a ‘married couple’. 1971C. Whitman Death Suspended iv. 80 The staff..consisted of..a married couple employed as manager and housekeeper. 1972Listener 21 Dec. 861/2 Up-and-coming young married couples who..are the people on whom the future of society depends. 1973Times 7 Apr. 26/3 (Advt.), Young married couple needed. See domestic situations.
b. fig.
1592Shakes. Rom. & Jul. i. iii. 83 (2nd Qo. 1599) Examine euery married liniament And see how one an other lends content. 1703Pope Vertumnus 66 And this fair vine, but that her arms surround Her marry'd elm, had crept along the ground. 1856Bryant After a Tempest v, The noise of war shall cease from sea to sea, And married nations dwell in harmony. 1973Times 23 May 19/1 The..happily married Paternoster pedestrian precinct and the extended churchyard to the north-east.
2. Pertaining to or characteristic of married persons or matrimony.
1588Shakes. L.L.L. v. ii. 912 Cuckow, Cuckow: O word of feare, Vnpleasing to a married eare. 1608― Per. ii. v. 4 That for this twelue-month shee'le not vndertake A maried life. 1712Steele Spect. No. 278 ⁋2 When I enter into a married State. 1834Buckstone (title) Married Life; a comedy. 1873R. Broughton Nancy II. 57, I put on a silk gown..as looking more married than the cobweb muslins. 1894‘J. S. Winter’ Red-Coats 47 He..turned to the orderly officer and growled out, ‘I wonder why the devil the other married quarters can't be kept like this?’
3. Special collocation: married print Cinemat., a positive film carrying both pictures and a sound track.
1953K. Reisz Technique Film Editing 276 From this cut negative and the negative of the re-recorded composite sound-track, a married print is prepared which is ready for projection to cinema audiences. 1959F. Chagrin in Halas & Manvell Technique Film Animation xix. 238 Sound and vision have equal importance; they are equal partners, aiming at an ideal married-print status and preparing for it scrupulously by synchronizing their moods and their movements. 1965P. Wayre Wind in Reeds ix. 135 From this original the first ‘married’ print was produced with an optical sound track down one side of the film.
B. n. A married person; also collect. Freq. in phr. young marrieds.
1890A. James Diary 30 Nov. (1964) 159 The married, however, thro' their ignoble state are doomed to shatter all the ideals of the soaring spinster. 1934J. O'Hara Appointment in Samarra i. 8 The kids home from boarding-school and college, and the younger marrieds, most of whom she knew by their first names, and then the older crowd. 1938Time 5 Dec. 8/3 No representative letter can be chosen from such heterogeneous applications—from men and women, from youngsters, young marrieds, middleaged, and oldsters. 1939[see cut-in n. 1]. 1958Times 22 Nov. 7/7 These teeming ‘young marrieds’ are very different from those less numerous in the Depression, a generation ago. 1959House & Garden June 8 Smart young marrieds go ‘natural’ with Irish Linen. 1963A. Heron Towards Quaker View of Sex i. 11 Among the married, faithfulness may be achieved by ‘working to rule’. Ibid. 57 Free heterosexual relations between the young unmarried or between the married. 1965New Statesman 30 Apr. 672/2 Wealthy parents, who are subsidised by the bachelors and the childless married. 1970K. Giles Murder Pluperfect ii. 14 Victorian marrieds, of a certain class, used to sleep around. 1972J. Casson Lewis & Sybil ix. 192 Our life together as young naval marrieds was to begin in Alexandria.
Add:[1.] c. spec. Of an antique object: assembled from parts of two or more distinct pieces.
1949T. H. Ormsbee Care & Repair of Antiques iii. 48 Be certain that the piece under consideration is not a ‘married’ one, assembled from stray bottom and top sections, as indicated with secretaries. 1967‘A. K. Cole’ Golden Guide Amer. Antiques 11 A ‘married’ piece, made up of parts of two or more similar old pieces, is acceptable if you know what you are getting and paying for. 1973Washington Post 13 Jan. e16/4 A ‘married’ piece is one in which two or more partial sections are skillfully joined to form one piece, such as a corner cupboard. Ibid., In married pieces, all components are of the same period, but they might be so mismatched as to require extensive recarving or scrolling. 1989Antique Collecting Mar. 5/1 A married case and movement will never be as good an investment as a genuine clock. |