weddedadj.
/ˈwɛdɪd/ 1.
a. Joined in wedlock; living in the married state.
ΘΚΠ
society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > married person > [adjective]
wedded?a800
spousedc1300
weda1400
marriedc1400
boundenc1426
conjugate1471
nuptial?1585
yoked1607
continuous1642
wedlock-bound1667
coupled1672
conjugated1690
partnered1775
mated1821
attached1898
?a800 Confess. Ecgberte xx, in B. Thorpe Anc. Laws Eng. (1840) II. 146 Ða geweddodan fæmnan [L. puellam desponsatam] hire yldran hi ne moton syllan oðrum men.
c1175 Lamb. Hom. 143 Þe weddede wiues.
c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 4604 Weddedd were. & weddedd wif.
c1381 G. Chaucer Parl. Foules 355 The wedded turtil with hire herte trewe.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Gött.) l. 10458 Quar-of suld i haue ioy or bliss, Quen i mi weddid lauerd miss?
c1412 T. Hoccleve De Regimine Principum 1623 And many wedded couples haue I knowe.
1549 Bk. Common Prayer (STC 16267) Matrimonie f. xiii*v N. wilte thou haue this woman to thy wedded wife.
1609 W. Shakespeare Pericles xiv. 8 My wedded Lord, I nere shall see againe. View more context for this quotation
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost viii. 605 Harmonie to behold in wedded pair More grateful then harmonious sound to the eare. View more context for this quotation
1717 A. Pope Eloisa to Abelard in Wks. 421 Let wealth, let honour, wait the wedded dame.
1740 S. Richardson Pamela II. 316 I have been a close Observer of the Behaviour of wedded Folks.
1798 T. Morton Speed the Plough v. i She is my wife... My lawful, wedded wife.
1848 E. C. Gaskell Mary Barton II. xvi. 227 If she lives, she shall be my wedded wife.
1908 G. Tyrrell in M. D. Petre Autobiogr. & Life G. Tyrrell (1912) II. 380 I thought that Utrecht would faint at the idea of a wedded bishop.
b. absol. rare.
ΘΚΠ
society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > married person > [noun] > married people
weddedc1230
spouseda1400
wedmana1500
c1230 Hali Meid. 5 Þat bihald as of heh alle widewen under hire & weddede baðe.
1530 Myroure Oure Ladye (Fawkes) (1873) ii. 149 She fayled not..the chastyte of vyrgyns ne the plenteousnesse of wedded.
a1849 J. C. Mangan Poems (1859) 62 Who pleads for thee thus, thy wedded shall be.
2. Of or pertaining to marriage or to married persons.
ΘΚΠ
society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > [adjective]
matrimonial1449
yoked1531
conjugal1545
geniala1547
marriageable1597
married1598
hymeneal1602
marital1603
hymenean1606
weddeda1616
matrimonious1645
connubial1656
gamical1660
hymenial1710
a1616 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet (1623) i. v. 134 Go aske his name: if he be married, My graue is like to be my wedded [1597, 1599 wedding] bed.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost iv. 750 Haile wedded Love, mysterious Law, true sourse Of human ofspring. View more context for this quotation
1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 184. ⁋2 As soon as she took upon her the wedded Condition.
1823 W. Scott Quentin Durward III. viii. 212 I care not myself for the wedded state.
1830 S. T. Coleridge Table-talk 27 Sept. Luther has sketched the most beautiful picture of the nature, and ends, and duties of the wedded life I ever read.
1866 J. M. Neale Sequences & Hymns 130 And wedded troth remains as firm, and wedded love as pure.
1888 J. W. Burgon Lives Twelve Good Men II. v. 8 The sun of his wedded happiness set in this same year.
3. Obstinately attached (to an indulgence, a habit, opinion, party, etc.).
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the mind > will > decision > obstinacy or stubbornness > [adjective] > stubborn in opinion
opinatea1492
opinative1517
self-minded1531
opinionativea1549
opiniative?1575
opinionate1575
wedded1578
opiniatre1591
opiniastre1596
opiniated1597
opinionated1630
self-opiniating1632
opiniatred1641
opiniastrous1645
opinioned1649
self-opiniateda1650
opiniatory1659
standfast1683
philodoxical1852
stick-in-the-muddish1932
the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > [adjective] > that does something habitually > inveterate or confirmed
composed1483
wedded1578
fastened1596
dyed in the wool1597
sworna1616
hardeneda1618
engrained1630
steadfast1644
radicateda1661
inveterate1735
professional1814
confirmed1827
card-carrying1939
1578 J. Lyly Euphues f. 44 If thou be eyther so wicked yt thou wilt not, or so wedded that thou canst not abstaine from their glaunces.
1721 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husb. i. 1 The wedded Opinions of the Generality to the Custom and Practice of their Neighbours.
1854 C. E. Norton Lett. (1913) I. 106 New Hampshire,..the most wedded of all the Northern States to the Democratic party.
4. Of things: Coupled or joined together.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fact or action of being joined or joining > [adjective] > closely, intimately, or permanently joined
grafted1570
married1599
soldered1601
connubial1807
Siamesed1833
welded1837
wedded1842
cemented1903
1842 Ld. Tennyson Godiva in Poems (new ed.) II. 114 Then fled she to her inmost bower, and there Unclasp'd the wedded eagles of her belt.
1916 Blackwood's Mag. Nov. 572/1 The country-side [Italy]..with its wedded vines and elms.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > love > [noun] > love between kinsmen > brotherly love > one bound by oath to be as a brother
wed-brotherc1100
sworn brothera1325
wedded brothera1450
a1450 (a1400) Athelston (1951) l. 24 For loue of here metyng þare Þey swoor hem weddyd breþeryn for euermare, In trewþe trewely dede hem bynde.
a1450 (a1400) Athelston (1951) xiv Þy weddid broþir.
Derivatives
ˈweddedhood n. [-hood suffix] wedded state or condition.
ΘΚΠ
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
a1450 J. Myrc Instr. to Par. Priests 212 Dedly synne hyt ys forthe broght, Saue in here wedhode [v.r. wededhood] That ys feyre to-fore gode.
ΘΚΠ
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
1891 Harper's Mag. July 181/1 His weddedness.
1903 R. Gower Rec. & Reminisc. 538 He and his wife appear exceedingly fond of one another, a rare and refreshing state of weddedness nowadays.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1926; most recently modified version published online June 2020).
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