transitive (usually in passive). To engage (a person) in a previous contract of marriage; to affiance or betroth beforehand. Now chiefly historical.
| 单词 | θ154109 |
| 释义 | society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > betrothal > betroth [verb (transitive)] > previously (2) pre-contract1576 transitive (usually in passive). To engage (a person) in a previous contract of marriage; to affiance or betroth beforehand. Now chiefly historical. pre-engage1673 transitive. In passive. To be previously or already engaged to be married. Also reflexive in same sense. Cf. sense 5. |
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