matrimoniallyadv.

1606 J. Marston Parasitaster iii. sig. G3 The Romans..thought that a woman might mixe her thigh with a stranger wantonly, and yet stil loue her husband matrimonially.

a1631 J. Donne Serm. (1957) III. 243 How Matrimonially soever such persons as have maried themselves may pretend to love,..yet..all that life is but a regulated Adultery.

1726 J. Ayliffe Parergon Juris Canonici Anglicani 123 He is so matrimonially wedded unto his Church, that he cannot quit the same.

1762 in Minutes of Evid. Nairne Peerage (1873) 91 in Sessional Papers House of Lords (H.L. A) XII. 65 At Edinburgh the third day of Aprile one thousand seven hundred and sixty two years it is matrimonially contracted and agreed between William Mercer of Aldie esquire on the one part and Mrs. Margaret Murray of Pitkaithly on the other part..to solemnize and compleat the holy bond of marriage.

1864 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend (1865) I. i. iv. 25 According to the principle which matrimonially unites contrasts.

1995 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 12 Mar. vii. 3/1 Think about a happy you and I, Matrimonially sharing our own sty.

1853 De Bow's Rev. Feb. 194/1 Men revere genius quite as much in the other sex as they do in their own. In neither sex is it very desirable, matrimonially speaking.

1886 Law Times 80 336/2 Both parties actually did regard themselves as matrimonially free.

1899 J. S. Clouston Lunatic at Large III. iv. 220 If I'd been matrimonially inclined I could have proposed twice over.

1925 Amer. Mercury Jan. 109/2 Matrimonially, Davy was an oddity.

1959 Muscle Power Nov.–Dec. 34/2 Bob is still single..but not a confirmed bachelor. His sense of humor comes to the surface when you speak ‘matrimonially’.

1990 N.Y. Times 15 July (Connecticut Weekly section) 26/3 There seems to be a subtle movement in society to close its ranks, economically, racially and now even matrimonially.

1880 J. Muirhead tr. Gaius Institutes iii. 175 The same may be said of her who is matrimonially in manu of a grandson.