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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024mor•ga•nat•ic (môr′gə nat′ik),USA pronunciation adj. - of or pertaining to a form of marriage in which a person of high rank, as a member of the nobility, marries someone of lower station with the stipulation that neither the low-ranking spouse nor their children, if any, will have any claim to the titles or entailed property of the high-ranking partner.
- Neo-Latin morganāticus (adjective, adjectival), for Medieval Latin phrase (mātrimōnium) ad morganāticam (marriage) to the extent of morning-gift (morganātica representing Gmc *morgangeba (feminine); compare Old English morgengiefu gift from husband to wife on day after wedding)
- 1720–30
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