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MAR'RY, v.t. [L. mas, maris, a male; L. vir, a husband, a lord or master.]
MAR'RY, v.i. To enter into the conjugal state; to unite as husband and wife; to take a husband or a wife.
MAR'RY, a term of asseveration, is said to have been derived from the practice of swearing by the virgin Mary. It is obsolete.
To unite in wedlock or matrimony] to perform
the ceremony of joining, as a man and a woman, for life; to
constitute (a man and a woman) husband and wife according to the laws
or customs of the place.
Tell him that he shall marry the couple himself. Gay. To join according to law, (a man) to a
woman as his wife, or (a woman) to a man as her husband. See the Note
to def. 4.
A woman who had been married to her twenty- fifth husband, and being now a widow, was prohibited to marry. Evelyn. To dispose of in wedlock; to give away as
wife.
Mæcenas took the liberty to tell him [Augustus] that he must either marry his daughter [Julia] to Agrippa, or take away his life. Bacon. To take for husband or wife. See the Note
below.
* We say, a man is married to or marries a woman; or, a woman is married to or marries a man. Both of these uses are equally well authorized; but given in marriage is said only of the woman. They got him [the Duke of Monmouth] . . . to declare in writing, that the last king [Charles II.] told him he was never married to his mother. Bp. Lloyd. Figuratively, to unite in the closest and
most endearing relation.
Turn, O backsliding children, saith the Lord; for I am married unto you. Jer. iii. 14. To marry ropes. (Naut.)
To enter into the
conjugal or connubial state; to take a husband or a wife.
I will, therefore, that the younger women marry. 1 Tim. v. 14. Marrying man, a man disposed to marry. [Colloq.] Indeed ! in truth
! -- a term of asseveration said to have been derived from the
practice of swearing by the Virgin Mary.
[Obs.]
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