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单词 marriage
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marriagen.

Brit. /ˈmarɪdʒ/, U.S. /ˈmɛrɪdʒ/
Forms: Middle English mareyg, Middle English maryache, Middle English maryag, Middle English maryaige, Middle English–1500s marage, Middle English–1500s marrage, Middle English–1500s maryage, Middle English–1700s mariage, 1500s maradge, 1500s marag, 1500s mareage, 1500s marege, 1500s mariadg, 1500s maridge, 1500s mariege, 1500s marige, 1500s marriadge, 1500s marryge, 1500s maryge, 1500s–1600s marryage, 1500s– marriage, 1500s– marrige (now nonstandard), 1600s maradg, 1600s maraige, 1600s mariadge, 1600s maryadge; also Scottish pre-1700 mairage, pre-1700 mairiage, pre-1700 mairiaige, pre-1700 marache, pre-1700 maraige, pre-1700 mareag, pre-1700 mareage, pre-1700 mareagh, pre-1700 mareaghe, pre-1700 maredge, pre-1700 mareg, pre-1700 mareige, pre-1700 mariadj, pre-1700 mariag, pre-1700 mariagh, pre-1700 mariaig, pre-1700 mariaug, pre-1700 marieage, pre-1700 marieaige, pre-1700 mariedge, pre-1700 marradg, pre-1700 marradge, pre-1700 marrag, pre-1700 marriag, pre-1700 marriege, pre-1700 marryadge, pre-1700 maruge, pre-1700 maryedge, pre-1700 maryiage, pre-1700 mearage, pre-1700 mereage, pre-1700 meriag, pre-1700 meriage, 1700s– mairriage, 1800s– mairriaige, 1900s– mairrage, 1900s– mairritch, 1900s– merrage, 1900s– merriage, 1900s– merridge, 1900s– merrige.
Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French mariage.
Etymology: < Anglo-Norman and Old French, Middle French, French mariage (1135 in sense 1, c1165 in sense 2, 1588 in sense 5a, 1643 in sense 3, 1840 in sense 5b, but already in 1534 used to denote a card game) < marier marry v. + -age -age suffix. The English word has evidently been apprehended from the outset as though a derivative of marry v., as suggested by the much earlier attestation in English in sense 3 than in French. Compare post-classical Latin mariagium dowry (from mid 12th cent. in British sources), Old Occitan maridatge (13th cent.), Italian maritaggio (13th cent.), Spanish maridaje (early 17th cent.); Portuguese has a different formation, maridança (15th cent.).With senses 2 and 2b compare also maritage n. In current usage, marriage n. and wedding n. are both applied to the marriage ceremony and attendant festivities (sense 3b), though the present word is generally restricted to more formal registers (except in Scots and Indian English). Note, however, that wedding n. is not applied to the state of matrimony (sense 1), so that the two nouns are sometimes used contrastively, e.g.:1992 D. Madden Remembering Light & Stone viii. 79 It was like taking a wedding at face value and confusing it with the marriage to come. Compounds containing marriage n. in the sense ‘nuptials’ (e.g. marriage bell , day , dress , etc.) are still attested, though more rarely than corresponding compounds in wedding n. Compare wed v., marry v., and note at that entry.
1.
a. The legally or formally recognized union of two people as partners in a personal relationship (historically and in some jurisdictions specifically a union between a man and a woman). Also: the condition of being married; the relation between two people married to each other, matrimony.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > [noun]
bridelockOE
yokeOE
spousehooda1200
spousea1225
wedlock?c1225
wedlockhoodc1230
marriagec1300
spousal1340
matrimonya1382
espousala1393
muliera1400
spousagea1400
spouseheadc1400
weddedhooda1450
wedhooda1450
wedding1489
espousage1549
the bond(s of wedlock or matrimony1552
nuptial1566
bed-match1582
bob-tail1585
Hymen's banda1593
Hymen1608
married life1609
conjugality1645
marriage state1652
conjugacy1659
marriage life1662
establishment1684
shackledom1771
connubiality1836
connubialism1848
weddedness1891
bedlock1922
the tender trap1954
c1300 St. Edmund Rich (Laud) 101 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 434 (MED) Al ful beo of þe Mariage, ȝe, and fayn it wolde un-binde!
a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) v. 1260 (MED) Whan sche was of Age, Sche tok non hiede of mariage.
c1485 ( G. Hay Bk. Law of Armys (2005) App. 374 Ye mareagh of kyrk men.
a1513 H. Bradshaw Lyfe St. Werburge (1521) i. xvii. sig. f.ii Many dyuers persones..Refused this worlde..Renounsynge vayne pleasures ryches and maryage.
1567 Compend. Bk. Godly Songs (1897) 202 Mariage is ane blissit band.
1606 B. Jonson Hymenaei 737 Marriage Loves Obiect is.
a1631 J. Donne Serm. (1953) VI. 180 Nor does hee dishonour marriage, that praises Virginity.
1675 W. Wycherley Country-wife i. 11 Well, Jack, by thy long absence from the Town, the grumness of thy countenance, and the slovenlyness of thy habit; I shou'd give thee joy, shoud' I not, of Marriage?
1755 B. Franklin Observ. conc. Increase Mankind 9 in W. Clarke Observ. Late & Present Conduct French They are the Cause of the Generation of Multitudes by the Encouragement they afford to Marriage.
1767 A. Young Farmer's Lett. 189 Marriage will ever flourish, when there is no danger of children proving an incumbrance.
1849 C. Brontë Shirley I. ix. 237 Marriage! I cannot bear the word: it sounds so silly and utopian.
1894 O. Wilde Let. Aug. (1962) 364 What fun our dinners were in the old days! I hope marriage has not made you too serious? It has never had that effect on me.
1921 J. Galsworthy To Let 134 Marriage without a decent chance of relief is only a sort of slave-owning.
1994 N. DeMille Spencerville ii. 9 She'd noticed that her husband was just going through the motions of marriage.
2011 D. M. Merrill When your Children Marry i. 3 Marriage is no longer one of many sources of self-fulfillment; it is the source for adults.
b. in marriage: in or into wedlock (now archaic). to give (also conjoin, join, take) in (also †to, †into) marriage: to give (join, etc.) as husband or wife. †but marriage: (Scottish) unmarried (Obsolete).
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > action or fact of marrying > marry [verb (transitive)] > give in marriage
spousea1225
marryc1325
(to give, have) to warisonc1330
to give (also conjoin, join, take) in (also to, into) marriage1340
wedc1374
betakea1382
bestowc1405
society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > action or fact of marrying > marry [verb (intransitive)]
weda1225
marrya1325
spousec1390
to make matrimonyc1400
intermarry1528
contract1530
to give (also conjoin, join, take) in (also to, into) marriage1535
to make a match1547
yoke1567
match1569
mate1589
to go to church (with a person)1600
to put one's neck in a noosec1600
paira1616
to join giblets1647
buckle1693
espouse1693
to change (alter) one's condition1712
to tie the knot1718
to marry out1727
to wedlock it1737
solemnize1748
forgather1768
unite1769
connubiate1814
conjugalize1823
connubialize1870
splice1874
to get hitched up1890
to hook up1903
society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > action or fact of marrying > marry [verb (transitive)] > join in marriage
wedOE
join1297
spousec1325
bind1330
couplea1340
to put togethera1387
conjoin1447
accouple1548
matea1593
solemnize1592
espouse1599
faggot1607
noose1664
to give (also conjoin, join, take) in (also to, into) marriage1700
rivet1700
to tie the knot1718
buckle1724
unite1728
tack1732
wedlock1737
marry1749
splice1751
to turn off1759
to tie up1894
society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > wedding or nuptials > celebrate (a marriage) [verb (transitive)] > marry (of priest or functionary)
wedOE
sacrec1425
marry1530
espouse1599
to give (also conjoin, join, take) in (also to, into) marriage1700
unite1728
1340 Ayenbite (1866) 220 (MED) Þe uerste stat is of þan þet..habbeþ wel yloked hire maydenhod..ne byeþ naȝt y-bounde þerto þet hi ne bi ine mariage.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) 12667 (MED) A man in mariage hir tok.
c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) iv. 6979 (MED) Imenevs, whos power is to bynde Hertis þat ben coniunct in mariage.
c1480 (a1400) St. Agnes 107 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) II. 349 My spouse..has giffine me in mariage, þat neuir sal falȝe, his herytage.
1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) iv. l. 727 Thai..said scho suld be weddyt with ane knycht..that was but mariage.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Psalms lxxvii[i]. 63 Their maydes were not geuen to mariage.
a1564 Q. Kennedy Breif Tracteit in 2 Eucharistic Tracts (1964) 128 Nother sal they mare nor be giffin til mariage.
1594 C. Marlowe & T. Nashe Dido iii. ii Why should not they then ioyne in marriage?
1700 J. Dryden Chaucer's Palamon & Arcite iii, in Fables 89 Then I propose, that Palamon shall be In marriage join'd with beauteous Emily.
1816 W. Scott Antiquary III. iv. 80 She trusted, before your return, to send Miss Neville back to her ain country, or to get her settled in marriage.
1872 C. M. Yonge Cameos cxii, in Monthly Packet Sept. 228 He would not give his daughter in marriage to a stranger.
1925 F. Newman in B. C. Williams O. Henry Prize Stories of 1924 48 Colonel Overton had confirmed her idea of respectful proposals by asking the honour of her hand in marriage.
1991 A. A. Aidoo Changes xiii. 103 So exactly to whom are we supposed to give our daughter in marriage?
2002 M. Rozen Hist. Jewish Community Istanbul viii. 113 A Muslim bride contracted to marriage as a minor has the right to reject her husband only if the person who gave her in marriage was someone other than her father or grandfather.
c. A vow or contract of marriage. Chiefly in to break (also keep) one's marriage. Obsolete.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > wedding or nuptials > marriage vows or bonds > [noun] > vow
eeOE
wedlocka1100
wed1390
marriagec1395
marriage vow1602
bed-vow1609
c1395 G. Chaucer Wife of Bath's Tale 710 He..writ in his dotage That wommen kan nat kepe hir mariage!
?c1450 tr. Bk. Knight of La Tour Landry (1906) 60 No man nor woman shulde..breke her mariage.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 464/1 Thou haste broken thy marryage, tu as faulcé ton mariage.
1662 Duchess of Newcastle Religious ii. ix, in Playes Written 534 I hear also, that he will endeavour to break the marriage.
1844 Ld. Brougham Brit. Constit. v. 71 His desire to break his first marriage from his wish to espouse Anne Boleyn.
a1882 in A. Nimmo Songs Clydesdale (1882) 145 She wanted him to break the marriage, for she had ta'en the rue.
d. A particular instance of matrimony; a matrimonial alliance.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > a marriage > [noun]
wedlock1377
matrimonya1402
marriagea1500
matrimoniala1500
a1500 Warkworth's Chron. (1839) 3 The Erle of Warwyke was sent into Fraunce for a maryage for the Kynge.
a1530 (c1425) Andrew of Wyntoun Oryg. Cron. Scotl. (Royal) viii. l. 40 Twa Erlys..Come chargyd in Scotland..To tret, and ferme a maryage.
1559 W. Baldwin et al. Myrroure for Magistrates Delapole f. xli I sought a mariage for my soveraine Lorde.
1580 J. Lyly Euphues & his Eng. (new ed.) f. 129 Marriages are made in heauen.
c1580 ( tr. Bk. Alexander (1921) II. ii. 2162 For of him and ȝour nece Idea Think I ane mariage for to ma.
1592 A. Day 2nd Pt. Eng. Secretorie sig. H3v, in Eng. Secretorie (rev. ed.) You haue deliuered forth..that we led him..into a deceiptful marriage.
1607 S. Hieron Mariage-blessing in Wks. (1620) I. 404 Look to the first marriage that euer was; the Lorde Himselfe knit the knot.
1647 R. Stapleton tr. Juvenal Sixteen Satyrs 206 An auspex to divine by the flying of the birds the future felicity of her marriage.
1692 London Gaz. No. 2738/3 There is a Discourse of a Marriage being proposed between his Electoral Highness and the Margravinne of Anspach.
1754 J. Erskine Princ. Law Scotl. I. ii. ix. 221 A marriage, tho' of the longest continuance, gives no right to the courtesy, if there was no issue of it.
1787 C. Smith Romance Real Life II. 130 At the court of Rome, the department called the Rote, allowed the validity of her marriage.
1816 W. Scott Antiquary III. iv. 81 It wasna..till Lady Glenallan had communicated this fause tale that she suspected ye had actually made a marriage.
1860 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. (1893) V. xxxi. 304 The fears of Renard..were occasioned by the unanimity of Catholics and heretics in the opposition to the marriage.
1902 Academy 24 May 526/1 Even undispensed, such [convent] vows do not invalidate a marriage subsequently contracted.
1968 Brit. Jrnl. Psychiatry 114 788/2 Therapy has helped many couples through critical phases of their marriages.
1987 Woman & Home July 3/1 She had a son and a daughter by her first marriage.
2007 S. A. Epstein Purity Lost ii. 64 What wealth was at stake in such marriages flowed from the family or sponsor of the bride to the husband.
e. A long-term domestic partnership between two people (later esp. of the same sex), likened to a marriage but without an accompanying civil or religious ceremony.
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1756 Crit. Rev. Jan. 93 Monsieur de Gersau..is an ungrateful rascal, who..debauches a shopkeeper's daughter, by means of an informal marriage, which he intended to disclaim, after he should be cloyed with possession.
1849 Christian Lady's Mag. Jan. 54 A clandestine and unsanctified marriage must, of necessity, ensure either the most bitter or enduring disappointment, or the most alarming deterioration in the moral character.
1893 Alienist & Neurologist 14 557 Mantagazza gives several instances of actual marriage as man and wife between women.
1998 K. Hughes George Eliot 163 This may not have been the first time they had described themselves as ‘Mr and Mrs Lewes’, but it was certainly the beginning of what they referred to as their marriage.
2012 R. Aldrich Gay Lives v. 133 The letters between Warner and Ackland..form a touching chronicle of what they termed ‘their marriage’.
f. With modifying word, as group, communal, etc.: a system understood to exist in some cultures, religious groups, etc., by which each of the men in a small community is regarded as married to each of the women. Cf. plural marriage n. at plural adj. and n. Compounds.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > types of marriage custom or practice > [noun] > polygamy > group-marriage
pantagamy1852
hetaerism1870
marriage1870
group marriage1880
punalua1922
1870 J. Lubbock Origin of Civilisation (ed. 2) iii. 67 Communal marriage, where every man and woman in a small community were regarded as equally married to one another.
1880 L. Fison & A. W. Howitt Kamilaroi & Kurnai 146 Considering how easy it is to mistake instances of group marriage for polyandry.
1926 J. Devanny Butcher Shop xxiii. 283 In the early stages of human history propagation..was carried on by means of the institution known as group marriage.
1965 Current Anthropol. 6 42 The existence among the Siberian Eskimos, up to the 1940's of..group marriage.
1996 F. Popcorn & L. Marigold Clicking iii. 462 Communal marriages. Bigamy, trigamy, quadrigamy.
2.
a. A dowry (in quot. 1465, that given by a father for his son). Cf. maritage n. 2. Obsolete.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > wedding or nuptials > gifts and payments > [noun] > dowry
moryeveOE
marriagea1325
dowing1382
dowerc1386
dowrya1400
marriage money1454
marriage good1478
tocher1496
dote1509
jointurea1513
portion1513
endowry1523
tocher-good1538
dowagea1552
marriage dowrya1616
wedding-dowera1616
marriage portion1616
portion money1625
fortune1702
dot1822
a1325 Statutes of Realm (2011) i. 4 Wedowe, anon after hire louerdes deth, biþoute ani difficulte sal habbe hire mariage ant hire eritage.
1391 in W. Fraser Lennox (1874) II. 44 That the said Erle of the Leuenax..sal paye to the said Erle of Fife..for the mariage of the said Isabel his dochter twa thousand marcis.
?a1400 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Petyt) (1996) i. 2322 I salle myn heritage gyf þi sistres in mariage.
c1400 (a1376) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Trin. Cambr. R.3.14) (1960) A. ii. 37 Symonye is assent to asele þe chartres þat fals & fauel..halden And feffe mede þer wiþ in mariage.
1465 Will of Nicholas Pickering in Paston Lett. (1904) IV. 178 I yaf ye x acres of fre londe, and a place in mariage.
1520–1 in J. Imrie et al. Burgh Court Bk. Selkirk (1960) 36 He understuid umquhill George Thomsone and his spous promeist in marriage to geiff to David Cadȝow ii bollis of bere.
1587 A. Fleming et al. Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) III. 1131/2 He [sc. John Gresham] gaue also to maids mariages.
b. Feudal Law. = maritage n. 3. Obsolete (historical in later use).
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society > trade and finance > management of money > income, revenue, or profit > [noun] > derived from specific feudal rights
marriagea1325
maritage1570
society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > payment or service to feudal superior > [noun] > on marriage of vassal
marriagea1325
amobr1436
maritage1570
amobrage1750
bed-geld1844
a1325 Statutes of Realm (2011) v. 13 Þe wardein sal habbe þanne þe double ualuwe of þe mariage afte[r] þe tenur of þe sulue porueaunce.
1405 in W. Fraser Mem. Maxwells of Pollok (1863) I. 146 The forsaidis Schir Willame and Schir Robart..has releschyt, remittit and for gyffin..to the forsaid Erle..al wardis, mariagis and relevis.
1422 Rolls of Parl. IV. 176/1 Item, that all maner Wardes, Mariages, Fermes, and other casueltees that longeth to the Coroune..be leeten, sold, and disposed by the said Lordis of the Counseill.
1459 Rolls of Parl. V. 371/1 The Warde and Maryage of Thomas..belonged unto the Kyng.
a1475 J. Fortescue Governance of Eng. (Laud) (1885) 130 (MED) The grete lordis..by reason..off mariages, purchasses..shall..growe to be gretter.
a1578 R. Lindsay Hist. & Cron. Scotl. (1899) I. 62 The Earle of Douglas..obtenit fre the King the ward and marieage of [Annas] Dunbar.
1682 W. Purves Revenue Sc. Crown (1897) 32 Wairdes and mariages..are of two sorts, viz. taxed and un-taxed.
1754 J. Erskine Princ. Law Scotl. I. ii. v. 9 Marriage could not possibly fall, where the heir was married before the ancestor's death.
1814 Gen. Rep. Agric. State & Polit. Circumstances Scotl. App. i. 188 Another casualty peculiar to wardholding, was that of Marriage. It seems first to have been due only in the case of female heirs.
1885 C. Plummer Fortescue's Governance of Eng. (rev. ed.) Gen. Notes 270 Lord's right of marriage under the feudal system.
3.
a. The action, or an act, of getting married; the procedure by which two people are married.
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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
c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) 1499 (MED) It was to him gret prou & honour To be in such mariage alied to þe emperour.
1340 Ayenbite (1866) 39 (MED) Þe ualse wytnesses..makeþ þe ualse mariages.
c1395 G. Chaucer Merchant's Tale 1319 Mariage is a ful greet sacrament.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) 3337 (MED) Þe mariage þen did he mak Bituix rebecca and ysaac.
?a1425 Mandeville's Trav. (Egerton) (1889) 89 (MED) In þat cuntree es na mariage betwene man and womman.
1490 W. Caxton tr. Eneydos xiv. 52 Yf I wyst that thou, venus, were not of accorde for the maryag of eneas to dydo, I shulde make hym fyrst to departe wythout eny respyte.
a1575 N. Harpsfield Treat. Divorce Henry VIII (1878) (modernized text) 245 St. Hierome and St. Gregorie that will not call our ladie's marriage nuptialls.
1612 For Colony Virginea Britannia 5 Euery Minister shall keepe a faithful..Record..of all Christnings, Marriages, and deaths.
1699 T. Brown tr. Erasmus Seven New Colloquies iv. 32 For when Marriage is once legally contracted, no humane Power you know can disannull it.
1766 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. II. 334 As, when lands are conveyed to the use of A and B, after a marriage shall be had between them.
1792 M. Wollstonecraft Vindic. Rights Woman v. 180 Girls began to coquet, and talked, unreproved, of establishing themselves in the world by marriage.
1832 F. Marryat Newton Forster II. xvi. 221 A marriage on board of a king's ship, by the captain duly entered in the log-book, is considered..valid.
1862 Frank Leslie's Illustr. Newspaper 15 Nov. 119/3 In the earlier periods of Anglo-Saxon society there were very few restrictions on marriage and it was contracted with very few ceremonies.
1926 R. Macaulay Crewe Train ii. vi. 139 Some of them were..what newspapers call intimate together, without having undergone marriage.
1960 C. Day Lewis Buried Day i. 20 She was known as ‘The Angel’ in the tuberculosis hospital where she had nursed before marriage.
1996 J. Doran Red Doran 2 My mother had worked in a shirt factory when she was single but after marriage and with the children coming on she became a housewife.
b. A wedding ceremony; wedding festivities. Now chiefly Scottish and South Asian.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > wedding or nuptials > [noun]
wifethingeOE
bridelopeOE
brydthing971
bridelockOE
bridalOE
noces?c1225
wedlocka1300
spousingc1300
weddingc1300
marriagea1375
espousala1393
sponsalia1535
nuptial1566
espousing1581
nuptial1581
marriage rite1592
nuptiallings1600
Hymen1608
marriage ceremony1616
bridaltya1637
confarreation1645
hymeneals1655
farreation1656
church wedding1852
nuptialities1863
shadi1893
matrimonials1986
a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) 1930 (MED) On þe morwe þat mariage schuld bene, þe real emperours..richeli hem greiþed.
c1395 G. Chaucer Wife of Bath's Tale 558 I made my visitacions..To pleyes of myracles and of mariages.
c1440 S. Scrope tr. C. de Pisan Epist. of Othea (St. John's Cambr.) (1970) 74 Whanne Pellus weddid the goddes Thetis..alle þoo oþer goddes & goddessis were at þe maryage.
1526 Bible (Tyndale) John ii. f. cxxj Iesus was called also and his disciples vnto the mariage.
c1610–15 Some Notes before Liues in C. Horstmann Lives Women Saints (1886) 17 He reprooueth Virgins that were present at mariages.
1654 Ld. Wariston Diary (1919) II. 242 I was..at his son's marriage.
1757 tr. J. G. Keyssler Trav. IV. 31 Another court-festivity is at the marriage of one of the empress's maids of honour.
1816 W. Scott Antiquary III. v. 104 The information which I gave them concerning the circumstances and witnesses of our private marriage enabled them to baffle your zeal.
1871 W. Alexander Johnny Gibb xxxix Wusnin ye never at a mairriage i' yer life?
1933 ‘L. G. Gibbon’ Cloud Howe 167 Uncle wrote down from Auchterless that he'd think black, burning shame to attend such a marriage.
1991 M. Tully No Full Stops in India (1992) i. 21 The sahib took us to a navy place by his car where we had an official marriage and put our thumbprints on the papers.
c. In phrases denoting the means or custom by which a spouse is acquired, as marriage by capture, marriage by exchange, marriage by purchase.
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1865 J. McClennan Primitive Marriage iii. 52 Among this class of tribes, marriage by capture could have had no place.
1873 J. Morley Rousseau ii. 124 The primitive usages of..marriages by capture, purchase, and the rest.
1924 W. H. Rivers Social Organisation iii. 46 Marriage by exchange..may co-exist with marriage by purchase, and..in some cases, it is only a means of avoiding..the marriage payments.
1951 A. R. Radcliffe-Brown in Jrnl. Royal Anthropol. Inst. (1952) 81 i. 20/1 The system of exogamous moieties provides a system of generalisation of marriage by exchange, since every marriage is one incident in the continual process by which the men of one moiety get their wives from the other.
1987 Current Anthropol. 28 252 He sees..an explanation for marriage by capture.
1991 Austral. Jrnl. Chinese Affairs 25 148 During the Maoist era, the practice of providing bride-price payments..was denounced as ‘marriage by purchase’.
2010 T. M. Lemos Marriage Gifts Anc. Palestine Introd. 13 The word ‘bride-price’, based as it is on such problematic notions as marriage by purchase, is outdated.
4. A person viewed as a prospective husband or wife; a (good or bad) match. Also: a spouse (rare). Obsolete.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > fitness for marriage > [noun] > marriageable person > with reference to means or position
marriagec1400
party1492
match1586
parti1779
c1400 (?c1380) Pearl 414 (MED) He toke myself to hys maryage.
1458 in H. Rose & L. Shaw Geneal. Deduction Family Rose of Kilravock (1848) 133 [To] deliuer William his..apperant air, and his mariage, to the said Huchoun of Rosse.
1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. ccliii. 375 The erle of Flaunders..thought that the yonge duke of Bourgoyn was a mete mariage for her [sc. his daughter].
a1600 (a1463) J. Fortescue Wks. (1869) I. 499 That dawghter..by birth had bin a mariage for a Kinge.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Comedy of Errors (1623) iii. ii. 93 I haue but leane lucke in the match, and yet is she a wondrous fat marriage . View more context for this quotation
1621 M. Wroth Countesse of Mountgomeries Urania 357 He was perswaded..to go see a Lady, a great marriage, and to wooe her.
1621 M. Wroth Countesse of Mountgomeries Urania 438 A great marryage she was likely to be.
5. figurative and in extended use.
a. An intimate union; a merging or blending of two things.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > management of plants > [noun] > joining plants together
marriagec1400
the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fact or action of being joined or joining > [noun] > close, intimate, or permanent joining
spousal1340
weddingc1380
solding1398
marriagec1400
espousal?c1450
soldering?1550
marryinga1566
twist1580
suture1600
welding1603
ferrumination1606
cementation1836
cementing1868
c1400 (?c1380) Pearl 778 (MED) Þou con alle þo dere out dryf And fro þat maryag al oþer depres.
tr. Palladius De re Rustica (Duke Humfrey) (1896) iv. 27 (MED) Into the lond let synke A reed right by, and bynde in mariage Hem to.
a1500 (?1471) G. Ripley Epist. Edward IV (Ashm.) f. 105 (MED) Make a mariage the body and the sprite betwixe.
c1570 (title) A new and Pleasaunt enterlude intituled the mariage of Witte and Science.
a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) iii. xxi. sig. Vu3 The cruell villayne forced the sworde with another blowe to diuorce the faire marriage of the head and body.
1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage iv. i. 342 They plant their Vines at the foote of great Trees, which marriage proueth very fruitfull.
a1693 J. Aubrey Brief Lives (1898) I. 123 He considered..the convenience of making a mariage between those rivers.
1865 J. R. Lowell Scotch Snake in Prose Wks. (1890) V. 260 Shall we succeed better in trying a second left-handed marriage between democracy and another form of aristocracy?
1876 T. Hardy Hand of Ethelberta I. x. 112 In which of the cases do you consider the marriage of verse and tune to have been most successful?
1955 Times 2 July 2/7 He has made a marriage between the artistic and the efficient.
1990 Thames Valley Now Feb. 11/1 Vitello All' Aragosta, a marriage of veal and lobster blessed by a reduced sauce.
2011 M. H. Snyder Analyzing Lit.-to-Film Adaptations xiii. 144 A marriage of media would be the purposeful combination of two distinct and unique mediums—in this case, a novel and a film.
b. Cards. In bezique, pinochle, and related games: the holding of a king and queen of the same suit in a hand, which scores points when declared. Cf. marry v. 11.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > card or cards > [noun] > combinations of cards
cater-trey?a1500
mournival1530
sequence1575
pair royal1608
septieme1651
tierce1659
pair1674
purtaunte1688
quart major1718
matrimonya1743
queen-suit1744
quart1746
prial1776
flux1798
fredon1798
tricon1798
intrigue1830
straight1841
marriage1861
under-sequence1863
straight five1864
double pair-royal?1870
run?1870
short suit1876
four1883
fourchette1885
meld1887
doubleton1906
canasta1948
1861 Macmillan's Mag. Dec. 138/2 [Bezique.]..King and queen of the same suit are called ‘marriage’, and score two; but the marriage of trumps scores four.
1870 ‘Cavendish’ Game of Bézique 16 King and queen of any suit not trumps (called marriage). King and queen of the trump suit (called marriage in trumps or royal marriage).
1945 A. A. Ostrow Compl. Card Player 351 The cards of a royal marriage (K–Q of trumps) may later be used as part of a flush.
1972 H. Phillips Pop. Bk. Card Games 380 Only three out of eight possible ‘Fours’ are declared, and only one out of eight possible marriages.
2006 A. D. Bernstein & P. W. Bernstein N.Y. Times Pract. Guide Practically Everything ix. 660/2 Melds..include a King and Queen in the same suit, or marriage; the flush, [etc.].
c. (An act of) industrial or commercial union; a merger.
ΘΚΠ
society > occupation and work > business affairs > a business or company > [noun] > merger
merger1851
integration1894
merge1905
marriage1909
horizontal combination1927
M & A1989
1909 Daily Chron. 7 Aug. 7/2 Mr. J. Annan Bryce, M.P.,..said the union of the two banks had been described as a marriage.
1982 Fortune 22 Mar. 121/1 I shotgunned a marriage of the two firms to design the project. It lasted about two months. They lacked rapport.
1991 Daily Tel. 5 Jan. (Weekend Suppl.) 19/3 Talks on a formal marriage between Fiat and Ford were officially abandoned about five years ago.
2011 N. Ellis et al. Business to Business Marketing iii. 67 An evocative way of capturing relationship behaviours is the metaphor of IORs [sc. inter-organizational relationships] as ‘marriages’ between firms.
d. An antique assembled from components differing in provenance, date, etc.; the assembling of such an object. Cf. married adj. 2c.
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > relative time > the past > oldness or ancientness > [noun] > object from the past or antique > assembled from different components
marriage1959
the world > time > relative time > the past > oldness or ancientness > [noun] > object from the past or antique > assembled from different components > assemblage from different components
marriage1980
1959 L. Gross Housewives' Guide to Antiques ii. 24 Parts of broken furniture may be saved and rebuilt into other or smaller pieces. Some of these late ‘marriages’ may contain parts which are, in themselves, quite original.
1980 Times Lit. Suppl. 1 Aug. 878/1 Many of the blades are joined to luxurious hilts of a different provenance, which may have been antique at the time of the marriage.
1985 Times 20 Nov. 5/2 Three elegantly curved legs..support it, but Mr Glennie thinks it may be a ‘marriage’, eighteenth-century legs supporting a later top.
1986 J. Bly Is it Genuine? 52 Provided both parts are of the same period and as long as they are sold today as a marriage no harm is done.
1990 Orientations Apr. 45/3 This suggests a ‘marriage’ of the rondels—perhaps freshly cut from their original strips—to the plain red cape just prior to Stoke's purchase.
2007 J. Miller Antiques Investigator (2009) Introd. 11/1 Look carefully at any two-part piece of furniture... Different styles of construction and uncomfortable proportions indicate a marriage.

Phrases

marriage of convenience a marriage arranged or contracted from motives of convenience, mutual advantage, or expediency (as opposed to love or sexual attraction); (cf. mariage de convenance n.); also figurative.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > a marriage > [noun] > of convenience
marriage of convenience1711
mariage de convenance1854
1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 164. ¶3 His intended Son-in-Law, who had all along regarded this Alliance rather as a Marriage of Convenience than of Love.
1949 G. B. Shaw Buoyant Billions iv. 53 The proportion of happy love marriages to happy marriages of convenience has never been counted.
1972 C. Drummond Death at Bar ii. 64 Reg and June are a bit peculiar in that it was simply a marriage of convenience... They went their own way.
1975 Listener 16 Jan. 84/3 The co-ordinators had..paired each of the piano sonatas with each of the string quartets. Was this just a marriage of convenience..for numerical rather than musical reasons?

Compounds

C1.
a. General attributive.
marriage alliance n.
ΚΠ
1689 E. Bohun tr. J. Sleidane Gen. Hist. Reformation of Church xx. 455 For there are but two ways of putting an end to Wars, either by force and Conquest, or by Marriage-Alliance.
1791 in Catal. Prints: Polit. & Personal Satires (Brit. Mus.) (1938) VI. 817 (caption in print) Marriage Alliances [inscribed on a drum beaten by Hymen].
1859 S. Waller in A. H. Clough tr. Plutarch Lives IV. 400 Cato..answered, ‘Go,..and tell Pompey that..I promise him a friendship more sure than any marriage alliance.’
1993 C. Tilley Interpretative Archaeol. v. 200 The control of surplus resources locates the elder in a position enabling engagement in the exchange networks..associated with marriage alliance.
2004 J. E. A. Dawson in R. Tittler & N. Jones Compan. Tudor Brit. x. 173 The English would gain by the peaceful route of a marriage alliance what they had failed to win by force of arms.
marriage blessing n.
ΘΚΠ
society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > wedding or nuptials > [noun] > blessing
marriage blessing1611
1611 S. Hieron (title) Spirituall Sonne-ship... Hereunto is annexed, The mariage-blessing, preached at a wedding.
1733 Shakespeare's Tempest iv. i, in L. Theobald Wks. Shakespeare I. 56 Honour, riches, marriage blessing [1623 marriage, blessing]..be still upon you.
1876 ‘G. Eliot’ Daniel Deronda IV. viii. lxx. 362 The marriage-blessing never gathered stronger promise of fulfilment.
1986 ELH 53 696 The marriage blessing sung by Juno and Ceres.
2006 G. Varcoe in C. Hefling & C. Shattuck Oxf. Guide Bk. Common Prayer vi. 512 The blessing and exchange of rings, the pronouncement of marriage, the prayers and marriage blessing, [etc.].
marriage bond n.
ΘΚΠ
society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > wedding or nuptials > marriage vows or bonds > [noun] > marriage or wedding bond
knota1225
benda1250
spousing bandc1275
God's banda1425
marriage bond1595
marriage knot1595
marriage noosec1600
noosec1600
marriage tie1664
bridal knot1679
marriage chain1679
the shackles1780
wedding-knot1902
1595 W. S. Lamentable Trag. Locrine iv. ii. sig. G4 But he was linckt to me in marriage bond, And would you haue me loue his slaughterer?
1644 J. Milton tr. M. Bucer Ivdgem. conc. Divorce 10 That under pretence of the mariage-bond they be not sold to perpetual vexations.
1781 W. Cowper Anti-Thelypthora 102 The marriage bond has lost its power to bind, And flutters loose, the sport of every wind.
1858 Evangelical Repository (Philadelphia) Mar. 563 The indissoluble nature of the marriage bond.
1950 A. Clarke Plot Succeeds i. v. 34 We'll kiss and fondle Our wives, when Branduv signs the marriage bond.
1995 Afr. Amer. Rev. 29 396/2 He is guilty of disrespecting his marriage bond.
2013 M. Lawrence Marriage Facts Before, During, & Beyond 66 All divorces were considered the complete dissolving of the marriage bond, and consequently, they were free to remarry.
marriage-bower n.
ΘΚΠ
society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > wedding or nuptials > time after marriage > [noun] > wedding night > chamber
bridehouseOE
genius chamber1513
spousing1513
bride-chamber?1533
wedding-chamber1552
marriage chamber1560
bridal chamber1594
bride's room?1690
marriage-bower1769
bridal suite1853
1769 D'Alenzon tr. ‘Hoamchi-Vam’ Bonze I. 120 All that nature could make delectable in the assemby of fragrant shrubs, and gay blooming flowers,..were conspicuous in the marriage bower.
1805 J. Robertson Life's Country Dance in Broad Grins 75 Each couples scour, the marriage bower, all sorts and sets embark.
1834 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus iii. iii. 79/1 The fair clustering flowers that over-wreathe..the Marriage-bower.
1902 J. Mackenzie Hist. Scotl. lxi. 470 A fleet of twelve ships, with brass cannon, set sail to conduct her to the marriage bower.
2007 L. Beletsky Australia 183 Walls that form a structure that resembles an actor's stage or a marriage bower.
marriage ceremony n.
ΘΚΠ
society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > wedding or nuptials > [noun]
wifethingeOE
bridelopeOE
brydthing971
bridelockOE
bridalOE
noces?c1225
wedlocka1300
spousingc1300
weddingc1300
marriagea1375
espousala1393
sponsalia1535
nuptial1566
espousing1581
nuptial1581
marriage rite1592
nuptiallings1600
Hymen1608
marriage ceremony1616
bridaltya1637
confarreation1645
hymeneals1655
farreation1656
church wedding1852
nuptialities1863
shadi1893
matrimonials1986
1616 B. Jonson Epicœne iv. iv, in Wks. I. 574 This is but an exercise, I know, a marriage ceremonie, which I must endure. View more context for this quotation
1766 Chron. in Ann. Reg. 106 Thus was she led..to the altar, where the marriage-ceremony was performed.
1800 J. Woodforde Diary 22 Jan. (1931) V. 235 Mr Maynard called on me before..the Marriage-Ceremony.
1960 M. B. Vizedom & G. L. Caffee tr. A. van Gennep Rites of Passage vii. 123 The betrothal and marriage ceremonies among the Bhotiya last at least three years.
2015 A. Blecher-Prigat in M. Sáez Same Sex Couples vi. 141 According to this approach,..the law of the country where the marriage ceremony took place governs the validity of the marriage.
marriage chamber n.
ΘΚΠ
society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > wedding or nuptials > time after marriage > [noun] > wedding night > chamber
bridehouseOE
genius chamber1513
spousing1513
bride-chamber?1533
wedding-chamber1552
marriage chamber1560
bridal chamber1594
bride's room?1690
marriage-bower1769
bridal suite1853
1560 Bible (Geneva) Mark ii. 19 And Iesus sayd vnto them, Can the children of the mariage chamber fast, whiles the bridgrome is with them?
1611 Bible (King James) Tobit vi. 16 When thou shalt come into the mariage chamber . View more context for this quotation
1771 Lit. Reg. 3 No. 10. 52/1 The marriage chamber contains in general nothing but a bed, which is usually very neat, and without curtains;..a few chairs, and a table, with bottles of brandy, and glasses.
1828 N. Hawthorne Fanshawe ix. 125 That fixed countenance of ashy paleness, amid its decorations of muslin and linen—as if a bride were decked for the marriage chamber.
1965 E. Dahlberg Reasons of Heart 32 The bridegroom, before being allowed to enter the marriage chamber, was required to fast for twenty days.
2006 M. S. Driscoll in G. Wainwright & K. W. Tucker Oxf. Hist. Christian Marriage v. 198 When the priest arrives to bless the marriage chamber, he recites this verse, saying: Look upon your servants and upon your works, O Lord, and direct their children with blessings.
marriage choice n.
ΘΚΠ
society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > fitness for marriage > [noun] > opportunity for marriage
marriage choicec1595
c1595 Countess of Pembroke Psalme lxxviii. 194 in Coll. Wks. (1998) II. 112 The virgins liue despair'd of mariage choise.
1609 Hist. King Morindos viii. sig. F His second selfe, a collop of his owne flesh, and his ownely mariage choice.
1705 W. Thompson Some Fruits Solitude xcii. 31 In thy Marriage-Choice do thou be wise, And not the Portion, but the Person prize.
1803 Lit. Mag. (Philadelphia) 1 Nov. 86/1 The folly and precipitance of youth in the marriage choice.
1976 C. G. Fuller Nayars Today iv. 94 It can be seen how the status factor has ceased to be an ‘active’ principle in determining marriage choice.
2010 J. H. Ballantine & K. A. Roberts Our Social World (Condensed ed.) iv. 268/2 However impractical romance may seem, marriage choice based on romantic love is becoming more prevalent.
marriage contract n.
ΘΚΠ
society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > wedding or nuptials > gifts and payments > [noun] > marriage settlement
marriage contract1592
marriage agreement?c1663
marriage articlesa1668
marriage deed1678
marriage settlement1678
tocher-band1792
contract1815
ketubah1841
1592 A. Munday tr. E. de Maisonneufve Gerileon of Englande: 2nd Pt. ii. xvii. sig. S4 It were more necessary to incite the Corsean king, to write rather of a treatie of mariage with the kings daughter,..and while they should consider on this marriage contract, it might bee a meane of peace with Floridamant.
1648 S. Rutherford Surv. Spirituall Antichrist ii. 129 Just as if the heire of a King..should oblige himselfe, under his hand and seale, in the Marriage-contract,..to bestow this chaine on her freely.
1722 D. Defoe Moll Flanders 149 The Linner [sic] Draper..had no power to Discharge me from the Marriage Contract which was between us, or to give me a legal liberty to marry again.
1824 J. S. Mill in Westm. Rev. 1 537 Plato is represented as exceedingly wicked, for having expounded, in his Republic, the footing upon which he thought that the marriage contract could most advantageously be placed.
1961 Bible (New Eng.) Matt. i. 19 Joseph desired to have the marriage contract set aside quietly.
2012 B. Jacobson Renegotiate your Marriage Introd. p. xvii Renegotiating your marriage contract on a regular basis is the single best thing you can do to fortify the foundation of a long-term, happy union.
marriage covenant n.
ΘΚΠ
society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > wedding or nuptials > marriage vows or bonds > [noun] > vow > (promise of) conjugal fidelity
spouse-faith1502
marriage covenant1555
marriage faith1586
1555 E. Bonner Profitable & Necessarye Doctryne sig. Cc.ivv The inseperable, or vnbreakeable bonde of the maryage couenaunte, whyche (as we sayde before) is the or cheife poynte belongynge to maryage..
1644 J. Milton tr. M. Bucer Ivdgem. conc. Divorce 10 That all holiness and faith of mariage covnant should be observ'd.
1705 J. Webster Sacramental Serm. v. 42 There is a Marriage Covenant, a Conjugal Covenant between Man and Wife.
1853 J. Smith in Seer Mar. 47/2 No uninspired man has authority from God to join together the male and female in the marriage covenant.
1980 D. Evans Faith, Authenticity & Morality (BNC) 184 Privately pledged in a marriage covenant.
2000 D. Rainey & B. Rainey Starting your Marriage Right xxviii. 144 Renewed devotion to the marriage covenant could help countless couples stick to their vows.
marriage day n.
ΘΚΠ
society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > wedding or nuptials > time of wedding > [noun] > wedding day
marriage day1447
marrying day1546
wedding-daya1556
bride daya1641
big day1827
1447 O. Bokenham Lives of Saints (Arun.) (1938) 7484 (MED) Þe derknesse of nyght Of þe maryage day had flemyd þe lyht.
1594 C. Marlowe & T. Nashe Dido i. i These linkèd gems, My Iuno ware vpon her marriage day.
a1627 T. Middleton & W. Rowley Old Law (1656) v. 69 As I am Lord of the day (being my marriage day the second) I doe advance bonnet.
1720 M. Prior Poems Several Occas. 214 Music and Songs shall wake the Marriage-Day.
1852 M. Arnold Empedocles on Etna, & Other Poems 115 That her lord and she Might drink it on their marriage day.
1907 W. B. Yeats Deirdre 36 Although her marriage-day had all but come.
1988 Speculum 63 856 Five thousand solidata were to be paid as dowry..and she was to receive ten hostages on the marriage day to guarantee its payment.
2011 G. D. Miller Marriage in Bk. Tobit iii. 117 These are not preparations for Ruth's marriage day since she and Boaz are not betrothed.
marriage dinner n.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > food > meal > feast > [noun] > wedding feast
marriage feast?1533
marriage dinner1552
bride-banquet1600
spouse-feast1601
marriage table1603
bridal dinnera1616
wedding-dinner1633
wedding-feast1633
wedding-supper1695
wedding-table1722
breakfast1847
wedding breakfast1850
wedding-banquet1855
society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > wedding or nuptials > wedding festivities > [noun] > feast > dinner
marriage dinner1552
bridal dinnera1616
wedding-dinner1633
1552 H. Latimer Serm. Parable Kings Son (1584) 183 b This banket or mariage dinner.
c1620 Summe Sacred Diuinitie ii. iv. 348 And so the King which made a marriage Dinner for his sonne, sent his seruants to call, not all, but those that he had called.
1777 Gentleman's Mag. Aug. 366/1 Edgar..invites himself to a marriage dinner at Athelwold's house.
1835 Museum of Foreign Lit. Feb. 204/1 The first grand marriage dinner followed close on the completion of the fittings-up.
1915 T. Tyler Dusty Rd. xxxvi. 296 Save you the expense of a fatted calf dinner for prodigal…marriage dinner too—..gosh, give me a drink!
2003 U. Mellström Masculinity, Power & Technol. iii. 91 Speculation on prospective partners,..worrying about the grand costs of the marriage dinner and reception, [etc.].
marriage dowry n.
ΘΚΠ
society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > wedding or nuptials > gifts and payments > [noun] > dowry
moryeveOE
marriagea1325
dowing1382
dowerc1386
dowrya1400
marriage money1454
marriage good1478
tocher1496
dote1509
jointurea1513
portion1513
endowry1523
tocher-good1538
dowagea1552
marriage dowrya1616
wedding-dowera1616
marriage portion1616
portion money1625
fortune1702
dot1822
a1616 W. Shakespeare Measure for Measure (1623) iii. i. 223 The portion and sinew of her fortune, her marriage dowry . View more context for this quotation
1715 J. Morrice et al. tr. H. Grotius Of Rights War & Peace I. iii. 150 So Amphipolis was given in Marriage Dowry to Acama, Son of Theseus; and Agamemnon promises in Homer to give Achilles seven Cities.
1856 P. H. Gosse Tenby xii. 111 Eight castles, with their domains, were given her by her father as a marriage-dowry.
1993 ELH 60 599 Mariana had a brother who ‘miscarried’ at sea, thus losing her marriage dowry.
2011 K. L. Turner in M. P. Romaniello & C. T. Lipp Contested Spaces Nobility vii. 130 Professing sisters paid a doti spirituali similar in function to the marriage dowry.
marriage dues n.
ΚΠ
1598 G. Chapman in C. Marlowe & G. Chapman Hero & Leander (new ed.) v. sig. K2 Two louers that had long crau'd mariage dues At Heros hands: but she did still refuse.
1732 R. Gwinnett et al. Pylades & Corinna II. 19 The Colonel ready stands; Who truly weak, false Sickness makes th' Excuse, To cheat his healthy Wife of Marriage Dues.
1834 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Dec. 759/1 There are confession dues, marriage dues, baptism dues, mass dues, dues for anointing.
1974 Jrnl. Econ. Hist. 34 503 Statements of marriage dues and death dues..provide the reader with firsthand exposure to the feudal life-style.
2007 P. M. Shipton Nature of Entrustm. vi. 120 The topic of marriage dues [in equatorial Africa] is one of debate and of custom sometimes honored in the breach.
marriage duty n.
ΘΚΠ
society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > [noun] > conjugal relations > rights and duties
bedc1175
wedlock-debt1422
marriage bed1567
marriage duty1567
spouse-bed1605
marriage joya1616
1567 J. Jewel Def. Apol. Churche Eng. ii. viii. 167 For wherefore doo the Canonistes moue this doubte, Whether a man being chosen Pope be bounde to yelde marriage duetie to his wife, onlesse a married man maie be chosen to that roume?
?1605 J. Davies Wittes Pilgrimage sig. O1v Then they, from strife, are free, that can, and will In marriage Duties vse the Golden Meane.
1748 S. Richardson Clarissa III. li. 254 The marriage-duties so very strong, so solemnly to be engaged for.
1817 tr. Prussian Code §696 in Rep. Decisions Consistorial Court Scotl. App. 450 An utter and incurable incapacity to perform the marriage duty..is sufficient to ground a divorce.
1942 Amer. Sociol. Rev. 7 809 Husband and wife may gain the feeling of personality rehabilitation in an equalitarian arrangement of marriage duties.
2015 J. Witte Western Case Monogamy over Polygamy i. 47 Many later Rabbis made clear that it was no excuse for a man to refuse this levirate marriage duty because he was already married.
marriage faith n. now rare
ΘΚΠ
society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > wedding or nuptials > marriage vows or bonds > [noun] > vow > (promise of) conjugal fidelity
spouse-faith1502
marriage covenant1555
marriage faith1586
1586 E. Pagitt tr. L. Lavater Bk. Ruth Expounded i. iii. f. 19v Naomie doth confesse afterward, that both these, did shew their mariage fayth to their husbands.
1671 J. Milton Samson Agonistes 1115 Breaking her Marriage Faith to circumvent me. View more context for this quotation
1791 H. B. Dudley Woodman iii. xx. 94 Marriage faith's a pretty notion, If you could but change a wife.
1855 E. D. E. N. Southworth Deserted Wife 25 We fail to impress the duty of fidelity, and hence..broken marriage faith and deserted families.
1997 J. S. Bennett in K. P. McColgan & C. W. Durham Arenas of Conflict 254 The marriage faith, like the public trust of which it is a part, means working things through in ‘free and open encounter[s]’.
marriage feast n.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > food > meal > feast > [noun] > wedding feast
marriage feast?1533
marriage dinner1552
bride-banquet1600
spouse-feast1601
marriage table1603
bridal dinnera1616
wedding-dinner1633
wedding-feast1633
wedding-supper1695
wedding-table1722
breakfast1847
wedding breakfast1850
wedding-banquet1855
society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > wedding or nuptials > wedding festivities > [noun] > feast
bride ale1526
marriage feast?1533
bride-banquet1600
spouse-feast1601
wedding-feast1633
wedding-banquet1855
?1533 tr. Erasmus Serm. f. 16 That chryst with his dysyples & mother, whan he was bydden to the brydeale or maryage feaste, refused not to go thyther, but moreouer vouchesafed to put it to honor by doyng so great a myracle at it.
?c1663 B. Whitelocke Diary (1990) 61 The marryage feast was great, so was the accustomed cheerfullnes on such occasions.
1797 Encycl. Brit. VII. 183/1 The marriage-feast of Henry IV. and his queen Jane of Navarre, consisted of six courses; three of flesh and fowls, and three of fish.
1877 H. James American ii. 19 The great canvas on which Paul Veronese has depicted the marriage-feast of Cana.
1991 Country Living June 47 Philippa Davenport plans the perfect marriage feast.
2004 G. P. Monger Marriage Customs World 245/2 The marriage feast itself can last up to about three days, with drinking and the chanting of improvised lyrical poems called joiks.
marriage-fruition n. Obsolete rare
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a1674 J. Milton Tetrachordon in Wks. (1698) I. 367 That a person so hatefully expell'd, should..be turn'd..out of all Marriage-fruition [1645 maried fruition].
marriage hall n.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > wedding or nuptials > wedding festivities > [noun] > place where wedding celebrated
bridal house1440
wedding-housec1440
bridehouse1550
bride-barn1652
marriage hall1924
1924 W. J. Locke Coming of Amos xvi. 204 Of the marriage in the bleak marriage-hall of the Mairie, she remembered little.
1990 V. S. Naipaul India: Million Mutinies (1991) iii. 194 Our business that morning lay in the city itself, in a small concrete marriage hall, which the former pundit..was now supervising.
2009 F. Zama Marriage Bureau for Rich People (new ed.) xx. 271 The marriage hall was still empty, and workers were arranging chairs for the guests around the altar.
marriage hater n.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > [noun] > hatred of marriage > one who
marriage hater1692
misogamist1706
1692 T. D'Urfey (title) The marriage-hater matched.
1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 77. ⁋4 Your Marriage-Haters, who rail at the Noose.
2000 alt.men.politics (Usenet newsgroup) 2 Mar. (title) Self styled marriage hater wants fathers as second class citizens.
marriage hour n.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > wedding or nuptials > time of wedding > [noun]
marriage houra1616
a1616 W. Shakespeare Two Gentlemen of Verona (1623) ii. iv. 177 We are betroathd: nay more, our mariage howre..Determin'd of. View more context for this quotation
1616 B. Jonson Epicœne iii. v, in Wks. I. 559 Your marriage houre sir. I commend your resolution. View more context for this quotation
1868 B. Taylor Golden Wedding 14 It gave to me the will and power—Beginning with the marriage-hour—To watch the new-made home.
1932 R. Linossier in J. Hackin et al. Asiatic Mythol. 71 The marriage hour arrived. But the father of the lovely Gopa..refused to give his daughter to an ‘idle fellow’.
2011 P. Royal Killing Season xxxv. 212 Now I renew that vow given in our first marriage hour.
marriage institution n.
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1845 W. L. Garrison in F. Douglass Narr. Life F. Douglass p. x As if, when the marriage institution is abolished, concubinage, adultery, and incest, must not necessarily abound.
1995 Guardian 14 Feb. i. 1/7 Traditionalists in the Church will welcome the Archbishop's concern for the marriage institution, but campaigners for deprived families will argue that help is more urgently needed for them, and for single parents.
marriage joy n.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > [noun] > conjugal relations > rights and duties
bedc1175
wedlock-debt1422
marriage bed1567
marriage duty1567
spouse-bed1605
marriage joya1616
a1616 W. Shakespeare Richard III (1623) iv. iv. 273 + 43 The sweet silent houres of Marriage ioyes.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis iv, in tr. Virgil Wks. 298 Juno ties The Nuptial Knot, and makes the Marriage Joys.
1887 R. F. Burton tr. Arabian Nights' Entertainm.: Suppl. Nights III. dlv. 123 These two nights proved to us the evilest of our nights instead of being nights of pleasure and marriage-joys.
2002 Cincinnati Mag. Jan. 32/1 (advt.) For $25 per person..you can learn how to have a lifetime of marriage joy with your best friend.
marriage-knell n. rare
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > wedding or nuptials > music, song, or bells > [noun] > bell or peal
marriage-knell1693
wedding-peal1808
marriage bell1816
bride bell1839
wedding-bella1849
society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > playing instruments > bell-ringing > [noun] > at a wedding
marriage-knell1693
wedding-peal1808
marriage bell1816
bride bell1839
wedding-bella1849
spurring1888
1693 W. Congreve Old Batchelour v. ii. 52 I thought the Chimes of Verse were past, when once the doleful Marriage-knell was rung.
1917 H. M. Jones in Texas Rev. Apr. 287 A loveless bride to whom the marriage bell Was little other than a marriage knell.
marriage knot n.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > wedding or nuptials > marriage vows or bonds > [noun] > marriage or wedding bond
knota1225
benda1250
spousing bandc1275
God's banda1425
marriage bond1595
marriage knot1595
marriage noosec1600
noosec1600
marriage tie1664
bridal knot1679
marriage chain1679
the shackles1780
wedding-knot1902
1595 R. Southwell Mœoniæ 3 In marriage knots to Ioseph she was tide.
1697 J. Vanbrugh Provok'd Wife v. 71 The Marriage-Knot..may stand Buff a long long time.
1827 R. Cobbold Valentine Verses 50 Mayst thou accept the faithful marriage knot, And know and cherish a respected wife.
1972 E. Merriam Double Bed 85 Here comes another gander looking for philander; claims his marriage knot's a noose, but doesn't want to cut it loose.
2002 K. Browne Introducing Sociol. AS Level ii. 73 There are well over a million and a half cohabiting couples who have refused to tie the marriage knot.
marriage law n.
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1576 G. Pettie Petite Pallace sig. Bbij Yet must I needes say that in my fancy her husbande deserued some blame: for no doubt his suspicion without cause, caused her in sutche sorte to transgresse marriage lawes.
a1668 W. Davenant Seventh & Last Canto Third Bk. Gondibert (1685) xxxvi. 21 She as betroath'd does till this Moon be past, And Marriage Laws begin by Custom Sway.
1828 T. Carlyle Life Werner in Foreign Rev. 1 128 Astonishment at the state of marriage-law..must stand on throughout Protestant Germany. For a Christian man, at least not a Mahometan, to leave three widows behind him, certainly wears a peculiar aspect.
1990 Oxf. Illustr. Hist. Christianity iii. 96 [Boniface] consulted a succession of popes on marriage law, on priestly mores, on ordinations, on liturgy, [etc.].
2006 L. C. Nolan & L. D. Wardle Fundam. Princ. Family Law (ed. 2) vi. 145 The common law left the regulation of marriage to the Church; canon law was marriage law until superseded by statute.
marriage life n. now regional
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > [noun]
bridelockOE
yokeOE
spousehooda1200
spousea1225
wedlock?c1225
wedlockhoodc1230
marriagec1300
spousal1340
matrimonya1382
espousala1393
muliera1400
spousagea1400
spouseheadc1400
weddedhooda1450
wedhooda1450
wedding1489
espousage1549
the bond(s of wedlock or matrimony1552
nuptial1566
bed-match1582
bob-tail1585
Hymen's banda1593
Hymen1608
married life1609
conjugality1645
marriage state1652
conjugacy1659
marriage life1662
establishment1684
shackledom1771
connubiality1836
connubialism1848
weddedness1891
bedlock1922
the tender trap1954
1662 J. A. Comenius Janua Linguarum Trilinguis lxiv. 168 That no filthinesse may corrupt you, let your chastity expect a marriage-life.
1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 149. ⁋5 The Marriage-Life is always an insipid, a vexatious, or an happy Condition.
1803 S. T. Coleridge Let. 17 Feb. (1956) II. 929 You are happy in your marriage Life.
1982 J. A. Holm & A. W. Shilling Dict. Bahamian Eng. 132/1 I ask him how was marriage life; he say O.K.
2010 M. Ram Fund. Cytogenetics xv. 276 If a girl of blood group A is married with a boy of blood group O, their marriage life would be full of tension.
marriage-maker n.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > match-making > [noun] > match-maker
broker1377
marriage-maker1591
proxenete1609
matcher1611
ring-carriera1616
matchmaker1638
match-broker1640
marriage broker1662
marriage-bawd1676
match-monger1680
flesh-broker1699
wife broker1700
black-sole1725
marriage-monger?1748
Blackfoot1808
blackleg1825
1591 R. Percyvall Bibliotheca Hispanica Dict. at Casamentero A marriage maker.
1855 Ld. Tennyson Maud xix. iii, in Maud & Other Poems 64 A dinner and then a dance For the maids and marriage-makers.
1998 P. Grace Baby No-eyes (1999) xi. 100 They whispered and laughed..with enough noise, enough times, to divert the marriage-makers until daylight.
marriage manual n.
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1910 J. MacCuaig (title) Marriage Manual... A brief manual of instruction for those entering into marriage relationship.
1965 W. H. Masters & E. V. Johnson in J. Money Sex Research iv. 109 If the suggestions of the marriage manuals are followed, the male develops the concept that he is to find the clitoris and stay with it.
1995 Population Stud. 49 31 An Australian marriage manual of the 1940's..stated that..there was no connection between orgasm and ovulation.
marriage market n.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > seeking marriage > [noun] > marriage market
marriage mart1823
marriage market1842
1842 S. Lover Handy Andy xlix. 362 He could console himself with having buttered his crumbs pretty well in the marriage-market.
1875 Chambers's Jrnl. No. 133. 54 Lord Hardwicke's Act caused quite a flutter in the marriage-market.
1971 R. Russell tr. A. Ahmad Shore & Wave iv. 45 The oldest, it was true, was married to a prosperous consultant engineer, but the other two were still in the marriage market.
1991 J. Barth Last Voy. Somebody the Sailor 248 The girl's value in the marriage market is..so much lowered that he will likely be obliged to sell her off to a white-slaver.
2002 N. D. Glenn in A. J. Hawkins et al. Revitalizing Instit. Marriage iv. 47 Initial screening on the marriage market occurs on the basis of apparent desirability.
marriage mart n.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > seeking marriage > [noun] > marriage market
marriage mart1823
marriage market1842
1823 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto XII xlvi. 28 The Smithfield Show Of vestals brought into the marriage mart.
1972 Village Voice (N.Y.) 1 June 70/3 For all our talk about being liberated, most of my friends are too shy, or perhaps just too snobby, to show up at marriage marts.
2009 L. Allen Notorious Mr. Hurst iii. 44 Now, at twenty-five, the Marriage Mart would consider her on the shelf, or almost so.
marriage-monger n.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > match-making > [noun] > match-maker
broker1377
marriage-maker1591
proxenete1609
matcher1611
ring-carriera1616
matchmaker1638
match-broker1640
marriage broker1662
marriage-bawd1676
match-monger1680
flesh-broker1699
wife broker1700
black-sole1725
marriage-monger?1748
Blackfoot1808
blackleg1825
?1748 T. C. Phillips Apol. Conduct I. 62 Our Marriage-Monger did not chuse to act in his own Name, for Fear of it's coming to the Knowledge of his Wife.
1854 W. M. Thackeray Newcomes I. xxxi. 305 There are articles which the marriage-monger cannot make to convene at all.
1926 A. L. Hayward in A. Smith Compl. Hist. Highwaymen I. 174 He was duped by a marriage-monger into marrying Mary Wadsworth under the delusion that she was a wealthy widow.
2010 H. Seligson Little Bit Married v. 111 How do you deal with the marriage-mongers?
marriage-morn n. now rare
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > wedding or nuptials > time of wedding > [noun] > wedding day > morning of
marriage morning1587
marriage-morn1600
1600 T. Dekker Old Fortunatus sig. I3 To morrow should haue beene our marriage morne.
1787 Public Advertiser 1 Feb. 1/4 Hewerdine's admirable song, beginning, ‘The marriage morn I can't forget’.
1809 S. T. Coleridge Three Graves iii, in Friend 21 Sept. 90 Dear Lord! it seems but yesterday—Young Edward's marriage-morn.
1899 J. Davidson Last Ballad 70 I stole The ring..From out the casket where I buried it Upon my marriage-morn.
1933 ‘L. G. Gibbon’ Cloud Howe i. 9 To think these things on her marriage-morn, the hand she held now never held so before!
marriage morning n.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > wedding or nuptials > time of wedding > [noun] > wedding day > morning of
marriage morning1587
marriage-morn1600
1587 R. Greene Euphues sig. H1v The Ladies..ceased not daily to banquet with the Caspian Lords till the marriage morning was come.
1607 ‘W. S.’ Puritaine v. 54 This is the marriage morning for my mother & my sister.
1705 Johnson's Hist. Seven Champions Christendom (new ed.) III. 90 On the Marriage Morning, the Bride and Bridegroom were saluted up with most sweet sounding Musick.
1821 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto V lxxvi. 173 The finest lace Which e'er set off a marriage-morning face.
1961 Shakespeare Q. 12 379 The marriage morning serenade of Cassio's musicians.
2005 G. L. Thomas Devotions Sacred Marriage xli. 118 This has been a rather mundane marriage morning—going for a walk,..stopping at a grocery store.
marriage night n.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > wedding or nuptials > time after marriage > [noun] > wedding night
marriage night1607
wedding-night1661
1607 T. Campion Discr. Maske Ld. Hayes sig. B4v (margin) The Euening starre foreshews that the wisht marriage night is at hand, and for that cause is supposed to be the friend of Bridegroomes and Brides.
1623 J. Webster Dutchesse of Malfy i. ii. sig. C2 The marriage-night Is the entrance into some prison.
1789 Town & Country Mag. Apr. 157/1 When I perceived you on my marriage-night, walking on the terrace, I thanked heaven I had found a man whom I durst intrust.
1826 R. P. Gillies German Stories iii. 227 Afterwards, on her marriage night, his ghost appeared, claimed the lady, and her immediate death ensued.
1991 Population & Devel. Rev. 17 241 Additional payments were made after the marriage night if the bride were proven to be a virgin.
2012 R. Hutchinson Young Henry iii. 62 Sir Anthony Willoughby was present when Arthur went to bed on his marriage night.
marriage register n.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > wedding or nuptials > official announcements, permission, or records > [noun] > records
marriage register1745
Fleet register1833
1745 Polit. Cabinet Mar. 206 Mass being ended, Cardinal de Rohan advanc'd towards their Majesties Desk, and presented them with the Parish Marriage-Register.
1897 D. Ward Handbk. Marriage Laws Cape Colony App. 39 Although the marriage register or a copy thereof is a convenient mode of proving a marriage, it is not the exclusive mode.
1986 Times 24 July 1/3 Bride and groom negotiated the narrow door in the altar screen for the 10-minute signing of the marriage registers.
2000 J. P. Beal et al. New Comm. Code Canon Law iv. 1340/2 An authentic copy of the marriage register is a public ecclesiastical document that is fully probative of the fact that the marriage was properly celebrated.
marriage rite n.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > wedding or nuptials > [noun]
wifethingeOE
bridelopeOE
brydthing971
bridelockOE
bridalOE
noces?c1225
wedlocka1300
spousingc1300
weddingc1300
marriagea1375
espousala1393
sponsalia1535
nuptial1566
espousing1581
nuptial1581
marriage rite1592
nuptiallings1600
Hymen1608
marriage ceremony1616
bridaltya1637
confarreation1645
hymeneals1655
farreation1656
church wedding1852
nuptialities1863
shadi1893
matrimonials1986
1592 T. Kyd Spanish Trag. iii. sig. G4 In person therefore will he come himselfe, To see the marriage rites solemnized.
1609 W. Shakespeare Pericles xv. 17 Euen right for marriage sight. [Modern editors read marriage rite or rites.]]
1621 R. Brathwait Shepheards Tales in Natures Embassie 198 For I your patience might wrong, To stand vpon these marriage rites too long.
1700 J. Dryden tr. G. Boccaccio Sigismonda & Guiscardo 415 Thy little care to mend my widow'd nights Has forc'd me to recourse of marriage rites.
1994 A. Theroux Primary Colors 160 In marriage rites the Chinese bride formerly wore red and processed to the wedding in a red sedan chair.
marriage state n.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > [noun]
bridelockOE
yokeOE
spousehooda1200
spousea1225
wedlock?c1225
wedlockhoodc1230
marriagec1300
spousal1340
matrimonya1382
espousala1393
muliera1400
spousagea1400
spouseheadc1400
weddedhooda1450
wedhooda1450
wedding1489
espousage1549
the bond(s of wedlock or matrimony1552
nuptial1566
bed-match1582
bob-tail1585
Hymen's banda1593
Hymen1608
married life1609
conjugality1645
marriage state1652
conjugacy1659
marriage life1662
establishment1684
shackledom1771
connubiality1836
connubialism1848
weddedness1891
bedlock1922
the tender trap1954
1652 J. Tombes Antipædobaptism 205 The mariage-state continued lawfull notwithstanding the feared impediment.
1714 Spectator No. 607. ⁋5 Good-Nature is a third necessary Ingredient in the Marriage-State.
1814 J. Austen Mansfield Park III. v. 103 When two sympathetic hearts meet in the marriage state, matrimony may be called a happy life. View more context for this quotation
1987 Jrnl. Negro Educ. 56 457 Many young Catholic couples live their marriage state outside the Church.
2009 H. Jones Jane Austen & Marriage Introd. 5 The psychological preparedness of those entering the marriage state interested Jane Austen far more than the external show of the wedding itself.
marriage table n.
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the world > food and drink > food > meal > feast > [noun] > wedding feast
marriage feast?1533
marriage dinner1552
bride-banquet1600
spouse-feast1601
marriage table1603
bridal dinnera1616
wedding-dinner1633
wedding-feast1633
wedding-supper1695
wedding-table1722
breakfast1847
wedding breakfast1850
wedding-banquet1855
society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > wedding or nuptials > wedding festivities > [noun] > feast > table
marriage table1603
wedding-table1722
1603 W. Shakespeare Hamlet i. ii. 180 The funerall bak't meates Did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables.
1794 E. Darwin Golden Age 9 The Marriage Table its degrees extend, And to our great, great Grandmother ascend.
1900 A. Carmichael Carmina Gadelica I. p. xxv The feast of the ‘bord breid’, kertch table, was almost as great as the feast of the marriage table.
2006 R. L. Smith Lies at Altar iv. 81 If you have open seating at your Marriage Table, I guarantee there will be bedlam. You need to make a seating plan.
marriage tie n.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > wedding or nuptials > marriage vows or bonds > [noun] > marriage or wedding bond
knota1225
benda1250
spousing bandc1275
God's banda1425
marriage bond1595
marriage knot1595
marriage noosec1600
noosec1600
marriage tie1664
bridal knot1679
marriage chain1679
the shackles1780
wedding-knot1902
1664 K. Philips Poems lviii. 160 All Love is sacred, and the Marriage-tie Hath much of Honour and Divinity.
1865 G. M. Hopkins Note-bks. & Papers (1937) 54 The Frenchman said the marriage-tie was in every case a bad thing.
1997 Independent 24 July i. 8/3 No one today would attempt to defend the favour it accords, outside the marriage tie, to heterosexual relationships.
marriage treaty n. now historical
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a1652 R. Brome Novella v. i. sig. M4, in Five New Playes (1653) For the strictnes Of our Italian censure gives a virgin, That held familiarity with any Man, By way of Marriage treaty, and then forsaken, Lost in repute.
1710 S. Palmer Moral Ess. Prov. 127 He that loves at first sight..finishes a marriage-treaty without taking so much time as [etc.].
1987 Renaissance Q. 40 427 The terms of the marriage treaty between Mary I and Philip (1554) open the debate on woman's rule in England.
1997 W. B. Patterson King James VI & I (2000) ix. 329 On July 25, 1623 Charles and Philip IV both signed the marriage treaty in Madrid.
marriage vow n.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > wedding or nuptials > marriage vows or bonds > [noun] > vow
eeOE
wedlocka1100
wed1390
marriagec1395
marriage vow1602
bed-vow1609
1602 W. Burton 10 Serm. ii. 144 Like a dishonest filth freely violateth her mariage vowe (made vnto him) by prostituting her bodie vnto others.
1747 S. Richardson Clarissa II. xxi. 133 That little piddling part of the marriage-vow, which some prerogative-monger foisted into the office.
1822 Sat. Evening Post (Philadelphia) 2 Mar. 2 [Coquetry] may lead to the awful result of infidelity to her marriage vows.
1998 Stornoway Gaz. 31 Dec. 9/6 Shepherdess Cathy Seagrave (30) and Andrew Wainwright (32) took their marriage vows at the ancient stone circle.
b. Objective.
marriage-hindering adj.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > match-making > [adjective] > the opposite of match-making
marriage-hindering1864
1864 Ld. Tennyson Aylmer's Field in Enoch Arden, etc. 70 This filthy marriage-hindering Mammon.
C2.
Marriage Act n. any act of legislature regulating marriages.
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society > law > types of laws > [noun] > personal or family
family law1728
Marriage Act1753
baby act1837
society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > wedding or nuptials > official announcements, permission, or records > [noun] > Act of Parliament
Marriage Act1753
1753 Gentleman's Mag. Sept. Contents Accounts of the new mariage act.
1842 H. J. Stephen New Comm. Laws Eng. II. 246 Various formalities are now imposed..by the Marriage Acts, 4 Geo. IV. c. 76, and 6 & 7 Will. IV. c. 85.
1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 301/2 By the Marriage Act 1835 all marriages of this kind not disputed before the passing of the act were declared absolutely valid.
1994 Population & Devel. Rev. 20 577 Uncle-niece marriages were prohibited in India by the Hindu Marriage Act of 1955.
marriage agreement n. now chiefly U.S. (arrival at) a prenuptial agreement made in respect of money, property, children, etc.; sometimes = marriage settlement n.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > wedding or nuptials > gifts and payments > [noun] > marriage settlement
marriage contract1592
marriage agreement?c1663
marriage articlesa1668
marriage deed1678
marriage settlement1678
tocher-band1792
contract1815
ketubah1841
?c1663 B. Whitelocke Diary (1990) 69 A just performance offered of marryage agreement, & payment of the money..brought them to a consent.
1831 in H. Baldwin U.S. Circuit Court Rep., Third Circuit (1837) 365 The marriage agreement is void because not recorded within the time required by the law of New Jersey for recording deeds.
1885 Cent. Mag. July 389/2 Sometimes marriage agreements between the parents of the betrothed extended even to arrangements for bequests to be left to the young people, as ‘incorridgement for a livelihood’.
1996 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 3 Oct. 7/1 Until 1983, when the obligatory dowry—the prika—a woman brought to her husband was declared illegal, refrigerators and beds were components of the marriage agreement.
marriage articles n. now historical a legal agreement drawn up before a marriage by the two parties, setting out terms with respect to rights of property and succession.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > wedding or nuptials > gifts and payments > [noun] > marriage settlement
marriage contract1592
marriage agreement?c1663
marriage articlesa1668
marriage deed1678
marriage settlement1678
tocher-band1792
contract1815
ketubah1841
a1668 W. Davenant Distresses v. i, in Wks. (1673) iii. 62/1 I'm a new Man, and have already seal'd To Marriage Articles.
1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 2. ¶2 The Father sends up every Post Questions relating to Marriage-Articles, Leases, and Tenures.
1813 J. Austen Pride & Prejudice III. viii. 142 Five thousand pounds was settled by marriage articles on Mrs. Bennet and the children. View more context for this quotation
1897 Dict. National Biogr. LII. 211/1 He apparently accompanied John Russell..to Spain..for the purpose of obtaining a ratification of the marriage articles between Philip and Mary.
1957 I. Watt Rise of Novel v. 141 A woman's property..became her husband's absolutely on marriage, although it was customary to arrange a jointure for her when the marriage articles were drawn up.
2003 J. Shami John Donne & Conformity in Crisis 241 Sermons before the king had to contend with a recent development: the signing of marriage articles with Henriette Marie of France.
marriage-bawd n. derogatory Obsolete a matchmaker.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > match-making > [noun] > match-maker
broker1377
marriage-maker1591
proxenete1609
matcher1611
ring-carriera1616
matchmaker1638
match-broker1640
marriage broker1662
marriage-bawd1676
match-monger1680
flesh-broker1699
wife broker1700
black-sole1725
marriage-monger?1748
Blackfoot1808
blackleg1825
1676 T. Shadwell Virtuoso iv. 70 Your Marriage-Bawd, your Canonical-Bawd is worst of all; they betray people for their lives-time.
1697 J. Vanbrugh Provok'd Wife v. 68 My Innocent Lady..turns Marriage-Bawd to her Neice.
marriage bell n. a church bell rung on the occasion of a marriage (frequently taken as the type of something joyful or celebratory).
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > wedding or nuptials > music, song, or bells > [noun] > bell or peal
marriage-knell1693
wedding-peal1808
marriage bell1816
bride bell1839
wedding-bella1849
society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > playing instruments > bell-ringing > [noun] > at a wedding
marriage-knell1693
wedding-peal1808
marriage bell1816
bride bell1839
wedding-bella1849
spurring1888
1816 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Canto III xxi. 13 And all went merry as a marriage-bell.
1908 L. M. Montgomery Anne of Green Gables xxi. 243 All went merry as a marriage bell.
marriage bowl n. a bowl made to celebrate or commemorate a marriage.
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1935 G. M. A. Richter & M. J. Milne Shapes & Names Athenian Vases 11 Lebes gamikos (Greek λέβης γαμικός), ‘marriage bowl’. High foot, double handles on the shoulder, the bowl in one piece with the foot.
1990 Orientations Apr. 76/1 An attractive pair of doucai ‘marriage’ bowls (lot 225) from the Dutch collector Colonel B.A. van Gulik made a substantial £77,000 (estimate £30/40,000).
2006 J. K. Cleland Consigned to Death ix. 100 He walked down the aisle and paused at a white jade marriage bowl, dating from the mid-1700s.
marriage bureau n. an agency which arranges introductions for persons wishing to marry; also figurative.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > match-making > [noun] > marriage bureau
matrimonial agency1860
marriage bureau1942
1942 M. Oliver & M. Benedetta Marriage Bureau 19 How much better it would be if there were an organization that could arrange the actual match-making and see that suitable people met each other. And this way my idea for the Marriage Bureau.
1960 N. Epton Love & English vi. v. 356 This modern matchmaker, the marriage bureau, is middle-class and eminently respectable.
1989 Population: Eng. Select. 44 118 Prospective spouses who..state clearly their intention to marry by going through..the marriage bureau.
2009 F. Zama Marriage Bureau for Rich People (new ed.) ii. 13 A month had gone by since he had opened the marriage bureau, and business was steady but slow.
marriage certificate n. a certified copy of the officially registered record of a marriage, which is given to the persons concerned, with details of names, date, etc.; also figurative.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > wedding or nuptials > official announcements, permission, or records > [noun] > certificate
marriage certificate1821
line1829
1821 Ld. Byron Lett. & Jrnls. (1979) IX. 28 Some delays on account of some birth & marriage certificates..occasioned me not to take my seat for several weeks.
1911 G. B. Shaw Doctor's Dilemma iii. 61 She carried her marriage certificate in her face and in her character.
1999 Times 1 Apr. 3/4 The authorities in Pristina were destroying all property records, marriage certificates, and birth certificates.
marriage chain n. Obsolete a necklace, etc., worn as a token of marriage; (allusively) the state of matrimony, esp. regarded as something imprisoning (cf. marriage noose n.).
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > wedding or nuptials > marriage vows or bonds > [noun] > marriage or wedding bond
knota1225
benda1250
spousing bandc1275
God's banda1425
marriage bond1595
marriage knot1595
marriage noosec1600
noosec1600
marriage tie1664
bridal knot1679
marriage chain1679
the shackles1780
wedding-knot1902
1679 J. Crowne Ambitious Statesman iv. 62 Iv'e peep'd on the Inside of your Marriage Chain, And find it Gold but slightly lin'd with Love.
a1763 W. Shenstone Levities in Wks. (1764) 240 Let truth and tenderness your breasts adorn, The marriage chain with transport shall be worn.
1832 ‘B. Cornwall’ Eng. Songs xciii. 100 Weave no more the marriage chain! All unmated is the lover.
marriage deed n. Obsolete = marriage articles n.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > wedding or nuptials > gifts and payments > [noun] > marriage settlement
marriage contract1592
marriage agreement?c1663
marriage articlesa1668
marriage deed1678
marriage settlement1678
tocher-band1792
contract1815
ketubah1841
1678 S. Butler Hudibras: Third Pt. iii. i. 48 For what can we pretend to inherit, Unless the Marriage-deed will bear it?
1760 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy I. xvii. 97 She must accommodate hereself [sic] as well as she could to the bargain made between them in their marriage deeds.
marriage dress n. rare a dress worn by a bride for her wedding; = wedding-dress n. at wedding n. Compounds 1.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > wedding or nuptials > equipment or accessories of wedding > [noun] > wedding garment(s)
bride clothesc1384
wedding-gown1439
spousing gown1495
wedding-garment1526
wedding-robe1530
wedding-suit1594
wedding smock1616
wedding-clothes1678
wedding trima1729
bridal gown1734
marriage dress1771
bridal wreath1785
wedding-dress1801
wedding-coat1838
bridalwear1850
1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker II. 170 She was eagerly curious to know the particulars of her marriage-dress; whether she wore high-breasted stays or boddice, [etc.].
a1963 S. Plath Ariel (1965) 72 The clouds are a marriage dress, of that pallor.
marriage encounter n. (a session of) encounter therapy aimed at improving a marital relationship.
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1975 N.Y. Times 24 Mar. 37/6 They were all members of the predominantly Roman Catholic movement called Marriage Encounter, and had participated in the past in a weekend retreat for married couples that is the bedrock of the movement.
1994 Canada Lutheran Aug. 5/1 This issue..provides an introduction to Lutheran Marriage Encounter for those who may not be aware of this special ministry that helps to make strong marriages even stronger.
marriage favours n. Obsolete white flowers, etc., worn as accessories at a wedding.
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1761 T. Smollett Sir Launcelot Greaves in Brit. Mag. Dec. 632/1 They were preceded by music of different kinds, ranged under a great variety of flags and ensigns; and the women, as well as the men, bedizened with fancy-knots and marriage-favours.
1855 J. Ogilvie Suppl. Imperial Dict. Marriage-favours, knots of white ribands, or bunches of white flowers worn at weddings.
1878 J. L. Robertson Poems 85 Tap-knots an' snoods an' dancin' cheepers, Razors an' hones for gay young shavers, An' Sabbath scarfs an' marriage favours.
marriage finger n. the third finger of the left hand, on which the wedding ring is traditionally worn.
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the world > life > the body > external parts of body > limb > digit > finger > [noun] > ring finger
ring fingereOE
leech-fingerc1000
leechc1290
leechman14..
medicinable finger?a1475
ring man?c1475
wedding-finger1543
nameless finger1584
medicinal finger1598
physic finger1621
physical finger1623
physician finger1623
medical finger1653
marriage finger1711
ring digit1867
society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > wedding or nuptials > marriage vows or bonds > [noun] > marriage or wedding bond > ring as token of > finger on which placed
wedding-finger1543
marriage finger1711
1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 58. ¶13 To get the Measure of his Mistress's Marriage-Finger.
1894 R. D. Blackmore Perlycross II. iv. 74 Mrs. Gilham turned her wedding-ring upon her ‘marriage-finger’.
1995 D. Wakoski Emerald City of Las Vegas 142 See the green glass-stoned ring flashing on her marriage finger.
marriage gear n. Scottish Obsolete = marriage portion n.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > wedding or nuptials > gifts and payments > [noun] > goods contributed by wife
maritagec1503
marriage gear1515
providing1794
plenishing1830
1515 in H. Rose & L. Shaw Geneal. Deduction Family Rose of Kilravock (1848) 185 For the quhilk mariage the said Huchon Ros sall giff sex scor of Merkis of mariage geyr.
1555 Protocol Bk. D. Gray 5 In name of toichir gud & mareage ger.
marriage good n. Obsolete = marriage portion n.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > wedding or nuptials > gifts and payments > [noun] > dowry
moryeveOE
marriagea1325
dowing1382
dowerc1386
dowrya1400
marriage money1454
marriage good1478
tocher1496
dote1509
jointurea1513
portion1513
endowry1523
tocher-good1538
dowagea1552
marriage dowrya1616
wedding-dowera1616
marriage portion1616
portion money1625
fortune1702
dot1822
1478 in J. Robertson Illustr. Topogr. & Antiq. Aberdeen & Banff (1857) III. 339 The first payment of the said Alexander Cummynis mariage gud.
1575 Protocol Bk. G. Fyiff f. 9v Ane certane sowme of money..in doit and mariage guid.
1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. xlii. xxxiv. 1134 [My wife] brought nothing with her for marriage-good, but freedome of birth [etc.].
1651 E. Prestwich tr. Seneca Hippolitus 64 For if thou wilt be marry'd, thou hast neede, To have a heav'nly Marriage-good indeede.
marriage lay n. now rare = marriage song n.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > wedding or nuptials > music, song, or bells > [noun] > song
bride-songOE
marriage song1582
bedding ballad1589
epithalamy1589
epithalamium1595
prothalamion1597
wedding-song1598
Hymen1613
hymenean1667
hymeneal1717
marriage lay1728
society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > vocal music > types of song > [noun] > wedding song
bride-songOE
marriage song1582
bedding ballad1589
epithalamy1589
epithalamium1595
prothalamion1597
wedding-song1598
Hymen1613
hymenean1667
hymeneal1717
marriage lay1728
1728 Post-man 4 May 2 The Marriage-lay, Counterfeit Marriages in the Fleet, etc. for Protection, to the ruin of many Persons.
1850 Ld. Tennyson In Memoriam Epil. 203 Demand not thou a marriage lay . View more context for this quotation
1910 J. R. Hayes Brandywine Days 110 Herrick's marriage-lays to young brides of his acquaintance are jewelled with gracious and delicate compliment.
marriage licence n. (a) a document giving official permission to marry; (b) = marriage certificate n.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > wedding or nuptials > official announcements, permission, or records > [noun] > licence
marriage licence1646
1646 E. Douglas For Blessed Feast of Easter 11 The Virgins day in Lent, after which, when Marriage licences so frequent, accompanied with the victorious Bridgrom.
1710 T. Nairne Let. from S. Carolina 29 The Governour in Council..gives Marriage-Licences, which are left ready sign'd.
1797 Encycl. Brit. X. 584/1 To forge..a marriage licence.
1836 C. Dickens Sketches by Boz 2nd Ser. 177 Doctors' Commons being..the place where they grant marriage-licences to love-sick couples.
1996 F. Popcorn & L. Marigold Clicking iii. 448 A copy of our marriage license efficiently transformed me into Samuel Howe Verhovek.
marriage lines n. colloquial a marriage certificate, esp. one held by a bride.
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1818 Times 25 Mar. 3/3 Pearson came back, and asked 7s. 6d. from each couple to get the marriage-lines.
1840 F. Marryat Poor Jack xi. 68 She could not produce her ‘marriage lines’.
1929 S. Leslie Anglo-Catholic xxi. 300 She was respectably married and had her marriage lines same as other women in the Row.
2006 S. Donati Queen of Swords xvi. 123 She did have a set of marriage lines, these absolutely legal and binding in the eyes of both the Catholic church and the law.
marriage noose n. figurative (humorous) the state or bond of matrimony, regarded as a trap or snare (see noose n. 2a).
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > wedding or nuptials > marriage vows or bonds > [noun] > marriage or wedding bond
knota1225
benda1250
spousing bandc1275
God's banda1425
marriage bond1595
marriage knot1595
marriage noosec1600
noosec1600
marriage tie1664
bridal knot1679
marriage chain1679
the shackles1780
wedding-knot1902
c1600 Timon (1980) ii. iv. 31 Wilt thou putte thy necke Into a marr'age nooze?
1693 J. Dryden tr. Juvenal in J. Dryden et al. tr. Juvenal Satires vi. 91 To choose to thrust his Neck into the Marriage Noose!
1783 H. Cowley Bold Stroke for Husband i. ii. 7 At sixty-three, the marriage noose, and the hempen noose, shou'd always go together.
1845 W. G. Simms in Southern & Western Mag. June 411 And thus, though haltered fast in a marriage noose, 'Tis still his grief to find himself undone.
1975 Lima (Ohio) News 17 Dec. e7/4 Great lover: Warren Beatty, who still slipped out of the marriage noose.
2006 L. Farber Anat. Trade in Medieval Writing iii. 114 In the image of fastening that will admit no loosening throughout life we can almost see the marriage knot metamorphosing into marriage noose.
marriage partnership n. marriage viewed as a legal, civil, or domestic agreement or contract between two partners.
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1792 T. Paine Rights of Man: Pt. Second 71 He cannot directly bequeath half the government to Prussia, but he can form a marriage partnership [between two ruling families] that will produce almost the same thing.
1871 Locomotive Engineers' Monthly Jrnl. Feb. 54/1 He opened a country store..and soon formed a marriage partnership with a daughter of Colonel Abel Chapin.
1890 Ohio Democrat (New Philadelphia, Ohio) 17 July Her management of the household and the children..is equally essential to the marriage partnership.
1907 Mem. Amer. Anthropol. Assoc. 1 411 The marriage partnership [among the Cheyenne] was a matter of choice, husband and wife being frequently of the same band.
2011 S. Olson & P. A. Thornton Peopling N. Amer. City v. 181 Both the risks and the possibilities envisioned in a marriage partnership.
marriage payment n. a payment of money or goods made to a bride or her parents by the bridegroom or his parents; cf. bride purchase n., bride wealth n. at bride n.1 Compounds 1b, bride price n. at bride n.1 Compounds 1b.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > wedding or nuptials > gifts and payments > [noun] > bride-price
dower1382
dowry?a1505
marriage paymenta1652
bride price1863
mohar1863
lobola1905
bride wealth1931
kiddushin1936
a1652 R. Brome Damoiselle iii. i. sig. C8v in Five New Playes (1653) Give earnest for't To half the value, (as my Faith and Troth I think, is somewhat towards your Marriage payment To be to morrow).
1844 Capt. McPherson Let. 10 July in Hist. Suppression Female Infanticide Orissa (Home Dept., Govt. of India) (1854) i. 68 On the cessation of infanticide, women would become abundant, and the marriage payment would become small.
1963 W. J. Goode World Revol. & Family Patterns iv. 167 The marriage payment or groom service points to the great concern with the legal possession of children.
1991 Stud. Family Planning 22 265/2 Marriage, defined in this study as..having received or made at least one roora, or marriage payment.
2008 T. Spencer-Walters in C. B. Hennon & S. M. Vilson Families in Global Context vii. 162 A wife can also be divorced due to desertion or continued adultery and the marriage payment is returned.
marriage portion n. a portion or dowry given to a bride at the time of her marriage.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > wedding or nuptials > gifts and payments > [noun] > dowry
moryeveOE
marriagea1325
dowing1382
dowerc1386
dowrya1400
marriage money1454
marriage good1478
tocher1496
dote1509
jointurea1513
portion1513
endowry1523
tocher-good1538
dowagea1552
marriage dowrya1616
wedding-dowera1616
marriage portion1616
portion money1625
fortune1702
dot1822
1616 W. Shakespeare Will in E. K. Chambers William Shakespeare (1930) II. 170 One Hundred Poundes in discharge of her marriage porcion.
1766 Chron. in Ann. Reg. 106 The girl was advised to do this, that he might be intitled to no other marriage-portion than her smock.
1860 W. Collins Woman in White (new ed.) III. 21 There is your marriage-portion for a reward.
1990 L. Stone Road to Divorce 345 By the terms of a divorce bill, the wife forfeited claim to a return of her marriage portion.
2010 S. A. Spectorsky Women in Classical Islamic Law ii. 87 If they have had sexual intercourse, the wife is owed her fair marriage portion and must wait an ʿidda before remarrying.
marriage rate n. the ratio of the number of marriages to the population, usually calculated per thousand of population per year.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > wedding or nuptials > official announcements, permission, or records > [noun] > records > proportion of marriages in population
marriage rate1856
nuptiality1900
1856 Jrnl. Statist. Soc. Sept. 288 The marriage rate, which was low, is now slightly above the average rate; the birth rate is high.
1891 G. B. Longstaff Stud. in Statistics iii. 14 Speaking generally, the birth-rate corresponds to the marriage-rate, but with marked exceptions.
1970 W. D. Borrie Growth & Control World Population iv. 62 There was a suggestion of a considerable degree of rationality in the reactions of these populations to the food situation, with marriage rates rising in good times and falling in bad times.
1998 Isis 89 706/2 Why..did so many building econometricians circa 1900 regress prices to marriage rates?
marriage ring n. a wedding ring; also figurative.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > wedding or nuptials > marriage vows or bonds > [noun] > marriage or wedding bond > ring as token of
wedding-ringc1386
marrying ring1504
marriage ring1568
band1671
bridal ring1717
bride ring1810
church-ring1856
wedding band1946
1568 Will R. Brocklesby of Kirton in Lindsey (P.R.O.: PROB. 11/54) One ring of gold wch was my first wyues mariage ringe.
a1631 J. Donne Jeat Ring Sent in Poems (1633) 292 Marriage rings are not of this stuffe.
1704 Hist. Non-Conformity Alphabetical Table, sig. b3 Marriage-Ring, and taking the Communion at Marriage, Debated.
1825 J. Neal Brother Jonathan II. 154 She never had sich a cold in all her life, as when she left her marriage ring off.
1878 O. Wilde Ravenna 5 A moon of fire Round-girdled with a purple marriage-ring.
1913 J. Masefield Daffodil Fields 82 She dropped her marriage-ring upon the table.
1979 Amer. Q. 31 665 The final proof of her sanity is her desire that her husband restore the marriage ring to her finger.
2011 C. J. Gardner Making Chastity Sexy ii. 52 True Love Waits makes explicit the connection between the purity ring and the marriage ring.
marriage service n. the ceremony of marriage; the form of words prescribed for the religious ceremony of marriage.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > wedding or nuptials > [noun] > marriage service
order of wedlockc1395
matrimonya1625
marriage service1698
nuptialities1863
1698 J. Trenchard Argument against Standing Army Discuss'd 9 I think before this be put in practice, you shou'd get an Act of Parliament, or find some other way to alter the Marriage Service.
1746 J. Upton Crit. Observ. Shakespeare ii. iii. 172 Our marriage service Mr. Theobald might as well quarrel with, as using as odd a phrase, and giving as odd an idea.
1833 Tracts for Times No. 3. p. 1 There are persons who wish the Marriage-Service emended.
1904 Delineator Aug. 279 The marriage service in the prayer-book of the Episcopal church is frequently used by others than Episcopalians.
1997 C. Shaw Sc. Myths & Customs ii. 50 When the marriage service was over, the younger male guests would join in the custom of running the broose.
marriage settlement n. a legal arrangement which secures certain property for an intended wife and sometimes also for any children of an intended marriage; a deed by which such an arrangement is effected; (occasionally) property settled in such an arrangement.
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society > law > transfer of property > settlement of property > [noun] > deed of settlement > type of
marriage settlement1678
society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > wedding or nuptials > gifts and payments > [noun] > marriage settlement
marriage contract1592
marriage agreement?c1663
marriage articlesa1668
marriage deed1678
marriage settlement1678
tocher-band1792
contract1815
ketubah1841
1678 tr. J. de Préchac Heroine Musqueteer 67 The honest Fleming was so glad of the news of a marriage..that he presently sent for a notary to draw the Marriage-setlement.
1798 J. Woodforde Diary 22 Dec. (1931) V. 156 Every device from her Friends respecting a proper Marriage-Settlement was thrown away upon her.
1875 H. B. Stowe We & our Neighbors 364 There was no question of marriage settlements, or rent and taxes.
1989 I. Taylor George Eliot (1990) vii. 74 In addition to the marriage settlement it was Robert Evans's intention to leave each daughter a further thousand pounds.
2006 A. P. W. Malcomson Pursuit of Heiress i. 17 Her fortune was paid over to her husband or into the hands of the trustees of their marriage settlement, and was non-returnable.
marriage song n. = epithalamium n.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > wedding or nuptials > music, song, or bells > [noun] > song
bride-songOE
marriage song1582
bedding ballad1589
epithalamy1589
epithalamium1595
prothalamion1597
wedding-song1598
Hymen1613
hymenean1667
hymeneal1717
marriage lay1728
society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > vocal music > types of song > [noun] > wedding song
bride-songOE
marriage song1582
bedding ballad1589
epithalamy1589
epithalamium1595
prothalamion1597
wedding-song1598
Hymen1613
hymenean1667
hymeneal1717
marriage lay1728
1582 T. Bentley et al. Monument of Matrones iii. 342 For the time was, when you being desolate and unmarried, did remaine pensife without your marriage songs.
1597 M. Drayton Englands Heroicall Epist. f. 67 v And in precession as they came along, with Himeneus sang thy marriage song.
1873 J. A. Symonds Stud. Greek Poets x. 336 Tritons..sounding a marriage song on their long-winding conchs.
1983 Harvard Jrnl. Asiatic Stud. 43 405 The coupling of which this marriage song speaks.
2003 S. M. Baugh in K. M. Campbell Marriage & Family Biblical World iii. 114 The marriage song or bridal song (hymenaios) also appears repeatedly as a part of the procession.
marriage supper n. a supper served to celebrate a wedding; frequently in extended use (spec. in marriage supper of the Lamb) with reference to the mystical bond between Christ and the Church (regarded as the ‘Bride of Christ’).
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > wedding or nuptials > wedding festivities > [noun] > feast > supper
marriage supper1565
wedding-supper1695
1565 T. Cooper Thes. Linguae Romanae & Britannicae sig. MMmm6/2 Nuptialis coena. Plaut. A marriage supper.
1611 Bible (King James) Rev. xix. 9 Blessed are they which are called vnto the marriage supper of the Lambe. View more context for this quotation
1838 W. Tennant Anster Fair (new ed.) vi. 28 But now, in Maggie's tapestry-deck'd hall, Serv'd is the sumptuous marriage-supper up.
1967 ELH 34 179 For the spiritual progeny borne by the invisible church to Christ, the marriage supper of the Lamb is the supreme event.
2006 S. A. Lindsay Psychotic Entelechy ii. 28 Koresh's followers..awaited the marriage supper of the Lamb.
marriage value n. Business and Law the additional value arising when two or more sets of assets are perceived to be worth more when combined than the sum of their separate values.
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1978 Economist 28 Jan. 102/1 Harrisons and Crosfield recently made an agreed offer..for Harcros Investment Trust... If the deal went through, Harrisons and Crosfield's interest in at least one plantation company would climb above 30%. Normally this would trigger a bid under the takeover code, but an exception is made where the shares are not a substantial part of the assets being acquired. This marriage value of Harcros, thought RIT, deserved a higher price.
1993 Daily Tel. 23 Feb. 8/8 Tenants would have to pay the value of the landlord's residuary interest as well as at least half the ‘marriage value’—the difference between the sum of the leaseholder's and the landlord's interest and the value with vacant possession on a 999-year lease.
1998 Independent 28 Oct. ii. 12/5 The document [on leasehold reform] is expected to amend or drop altogether the concept of ‘marriage value’..in favour of a more even system.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2000; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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