Dowered: alternatives and connections

To determine the proper share of, or the proper apportionment; as, to admeasure dower; to admeasure common of pasture.

To betroth; to pledge one's faith to for marriage, or solemnly promise (one's self or another) in marriage.

Furnished with weapons of offense or defense; furnished with the means of security or protection.

To come into legal operation in connection with anything; to vest; as, dower will attach.

Notice of a proposed marriage, proclaimed in a church, or other place prescribed by law, in order that any person may object, if he kn…

To contract to any one for a marriage; to engage or promise in order to marriage; to affiance; -- used esp. of a woman.

A plea, in which it is alleged that the woman suing for dower was not lawfully married to the man in whose lands she seeks to be endow…

Belonging to marriage; suitable or appropriate to the marriage state or to married persons; matrimonial; connubial.

Of or pertaining to marriage, or the marriage state; conjugal; nuptial.

Inequality in marriage; marriage with an inferior.

Pertaining to dower, or a woman's marriage portion; constituting dower, or comprised in it.

To furnish with a dower; to endow.

Capable of being endowed; entitled to dower.

A widow endowed, or having a jointure; a widow who either enjoys a dower from her deceased husband, or has property of her own brought…

Destitute of dower; having no marriage portion.

See Dower.

Of or relating to a dower.

A woman entitled to dower.