1. Verb
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.
2. Verb
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.
3. Verb
To dispose of in wedlock; to give away as wife.
4. Verb
To take for husband or wife. See the Note below.
5. Verb
Figuratively, to unite in the closest and most endearing relation.
6. Verb
To enter into the conjugal or connubial state; to take a husband or a wife.
7. Interjection
Indeed ! in truth ! -- a term of asseveration said to have been derived from the practice of swearing by the Virgin Mary.
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