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Handfast :: Handfast (v. t.) To pledge; to bind; to betroth by joining hands, in order to cohabitation, before the celebration of marriage..

Elopement :: Elopement (n.) The act of eloping; secret departure; -- said of a woman and a man, one or both, who run away from their homes for marriage or for cohabitation..

Nowes :: Nowes (n. pl.) The marriage knot.

Monandric :: Monandric (a.) Of or pertaining to monandry; practicing monandry as a system of marriage.

Divorce :: Divorce (n.) The decree or writing by which marriage is dissolved.

Ally :: Ally (v. t.) To unite, or form a connection between, as between families by marriage, or between princes and states by treaty, league, or confederacy; -- often followed by to or with..

Dote :: Dote (n.) A marriage portion. [Obs.] See 1st Dot, n..

Match :: Match (v. i.) To be united in marriage; to mate.

Settlement :: Settlement (n.) That which is bestowed formally and permanently; the sum secured to a person; especially, a jointure made to a woman at her marriage; also, in the United States, a sum of money or other property formerly granted to a pastor in additional to his salary..

Conjugal :: Conjugal (a.) Belonging to marriage; suitable or appropriate to the marriage state or to married persons; matrimonial; connubial.

Stepchild :: Stepbrother (n.) A brother by the marriage of one's father with the mother of another, or of one's mother with the father of another..

Mulier :: Mulier (n.) Lawful issue born in wedlock, in distinction from an elder brother born of the same parents before their marriage; a lawful son..

Banns :: Banns (n. pl.) Notice of a proposed marriage, proclaimed in a church, or other place prescribed by law, in order that any person may object, if he knows of just cause why the marriage should not take place..

Nuptial :: Nuptial (n.) Marriage; wedding; nuptial ceremony; -- now only in the plural.

Bed :: Bed (n.) (Used as the symbol of matrimony) Marriage.

Divorce :: Divorce (n.) To dissolve the marriage contract of, either wholly or partially; to separate by divorce..

Frank-marriage :: Frank-marriage (n.) A certain tenure in tail special; an estate of inheritance given to a man his wife (the wife being of the blood of the donor), and descendible to the heirs of their two bodies begotten..

Miscegenation :: Miscegenation (n.) A mixing of races; amalgamation, as by intermarriage of black and white..

Unite :: Unite (v. t.) Hence, to join by a legal or moral bond, as families by marriage, nations by treaty, men by opinions; to join in interest, affection, fellowship, or the like; to cause to agree; to harmonize; to associate; to attach..

Infidelity :: Infidelity (n.) Unfaithfulness to the marriage vow or contract; violation of the marriage covenant by adultery.

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