单词 | intermarriage |
释义 | intermarriagen. 1. The action or fact of intermarrying; union in or connection by marriage. a. Of two persons, or of one person with another. Now only in legal phraseology = ‘Marriage’, in ordinary use. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > action or fact of marrying > [noun] eeOE weddingc1000 wivingOE contractc1315 marriagec1325 matrimony1357 unionc1475 maritagec1478 briding1566 espousal1566 match1574 intermarriage1579 despousing1609 espousement1623 nuptial1630 coupling1641 splice1830 intermarrying1843 contraction1885 yokemating1891 1579 J. Stubbs Discouerie Gaping Gulf sig. Ciijv If entermariages emongst themselues in theyr owne family, can not stay this furye of theyrs. 1580 Mrs. Stubb in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eminent Literary Men (1843) (Camden) 42 Your poor subjects said wife hath, by many arguments since their entermarriage [etc.]. 1653 in Coll. Scarce & Valuable Tracts (1748) I. 551 That no Man shall be liable to any Action for any Debt contracted by his Wife during their Inter-marriage. 1693 T. Sprat Relation Wicked Contrivance S. Blackhead 59 Persons, who were present at the Inter-marriage of the said Ann to the said Robert Young. 1709 Steel Tatler No. 9. ⁋2 A Liberty our Family has..from an Inter-Marriage with a Daughter of Mr. Scoggin. 1808 M. L. Weems Life G. Washington (ed. 6) ii. 9 From his intermarriage with this charming girl. 1848 J. J. S. Wharton Law Lexicon 302/1 A bond given by a husband to his intended wife, upon a condition not to be performed in his life-time..would not be extinguished by the inter-marriage; for marriage extinguishes such contracts only as are for debts or things which are due in præsenti. b. Marriage between members of different families, castes, tribes, nations, or societies, as establishing a connection between such families, etc. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > types of marriage custom or practice > [noun] > marriage of different races, societies, or castes commixtiona1387 intermarriage1602 commixture1652 internuptials1655 1602 W. Warner Epitome Hist. Eng. in Albions Eng. (rev. ed.) 367 Through continued supplies of their owne nation..intermarriages, and confederacies with Ours. 1641 Naunton's Fragmenta Regalia sig. B3v Apprehending the unsafety, and danger of Intermarriage with the blood Royall. 1695 W. Temple Introd. Hist. Eng. 241 The Normans began generally by Force of Intermarriages..to use the English tongue. 1798 H. T. Colebrooke Misc. Ess. (1873) II. 163 A third set of Indian classes originate from the intermarriages of the first and second set. 1841 G. Borrow Zincali I. ii. iii. 274 It is..by intermarriage alone that the two races will ever commingle. 1893 P. C. Mozoomdar in J. H. Barrows World's Parl. Relig. I. 347 In 1851 the first intermarriage was celebrated. Intermarriage in India means the marriage of persons belonging to different castes. 2. loosely. Marriage between persons (or interbreeding between animals) nearly related; consanguineous marriage or breeding. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > types of marriage custom or practice > [noun] > marriage between relations cross marriage1539 intermarriage1882 cross-cousin marriage1889 the world > life > biology > biological processes > genetic activity > heredity or hereditary descent > [noun] > descent from common ancestor > inbreeding home breeding1756 in-breedingc1842 homogamy1874 intermarriage1882 1875 W. Ridley Kamilaroi (ed. 2) 162 The effects of these [native Australian] rules, in passing every family through each of the four classes in as many generations, and in preventing the intermarriage of near relations, will appear on inspection of this pedigree.] 1882 J. P. Irvine in Quain's Dict. Med. 384/2 Intermarriage certainly predisposes to disease...Breeders of first-class animals practise intermarriage, and thereby develop speed, quality, and endurance in the offspring. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1579 |
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