transitive. To promise formally (a person, esp. a woman) in marriage to another; to make a contract of marriage between (two people); to betroth…

As an active verb. transitive. To give in marriage; to arrange for (a person or couple) to be married; to betroth; = espouse, v. 2b(a). Also figur…

transitive. In passive. To be married or betrothed (to, †unto, †with a person); = espouse, v. 2a. Also figurative.

transitive. To betroth; = troth, v. Obsolete.

To betroth (a woman) to one.

To make sure for marriage, affiance, betroth, or engage. Obsolete.

esp. To engage by a promise of marriage, or (rarely) by marriage itself; to betroth, espouse. Cf. assure, v. 4. Obsolete.

transitive. = affiance, v. 2a.

transitive. To betroth (a person) to (also unto, with) another; to promise or commit (a person) formally to be married to. Cf. affiance, v. 2a. ar…

To engage by a pledge or contract, esp. for or by marriage; to betroth, espouse: = assure, v. 4, ensure, v. 5. Obsolete. rare.

transitive. To arrange or set up the marriage of; to betroth. Frequently with to (now chiefly in passive).

Now archaic. transitive. To pledge (a person, esp. a woman) in marriage to someone else; to betroth. Frequently in passive.

To contract two persons to each other in order to marriage; to affiance. (More usually, but not exclusively, said of contracting the female to her…

As an active verb. transitive. To give in marriage; to marry (a person to another, esp. a woman to a man; formerly also with †with); to arrange…

spec. as to marriage. (a) transitive and reflexive. To betroth, affiance, engage (two persons, or one person to another); passive to be betrothed or…

spec. To bind by a promise of marriage; to betroth. Chiefly passive and reflexive. (See also 6c.)