† matrimoniousadj.
Obsolete.
Of or relating to marriage. Also: conducive to the married state.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > [adjective]
matrimonial1449
yoked1531
conjugal1545
geniala1547
marriageable1597
married1598
hymeneal1602
marital1603
hymenean1606
weddeda1616
matrimonious1645
connubial1656
gamical1660
hymenial1710
society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > fitness for marriage > [adjective] > inclining or conducive to marrying
matrimonial1735
matrimonious1837
1645 J. Milton Tetrachordon 23 The miserable work that mans ignorance and pusillanimity would make in this matrimonious busines.
1837 Countess Granville Lett. (1894) II. 224 The green room is matrimonious.
Derivatives
matrimoniously adv. rare
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > [adverb] > according to laws of matrimony
matrimonially1606
matrimoniously1839
1839 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 46 28 When a man is matrimoniously inclined, let him keep his own counsel.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2001; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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adj.1645