Definition of marriage

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Marriage (v. t.) The marriage vow or contract.

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Stepparent :: Stepmother (n.) The wife of one's father by a subsequent marriage.
Dower :: Dower (n.) That which a woman brings to a husband in marriage; dowry.
Kin :: Kin (n.) Relationship, consanguinity, or affinity; connection by birth or marriage; kindred; near connection or alliance, as of those having common descent..
Stepdame :: Stepchild (n.) A son or daughter of one's wife or husband by a former marriage.
Dot :: Dot (n.) A marriage portion; dowry.
Courter :: Courter (n.) One who courts; one who plays the lover, or who solicits in marriage; one who flatters and cajoles..
Kindred :: Kindred (n.) Relatives by blood or marriage, more properly the former; relations; persons related to each other..
Bigamous :: Bigamous (a.) Guilty of bigamy; involving bigamy; as, a bigamous marriage..
Praetexta :: Praetexta (n.) A white robe with a purple border, worn by a Roman boy before he was entitled to wear the toga virilis, or until about the completion of his fourteenth year, and by girls until their marriage. It was also worn by magistrates and priests..
Opetide :: Opetide (n.) The time between Epiphany and Ash Wednesday wherein marriages were formerly solemnized publicly in churches. [Eng..
Affinity :: Affinity (n.) Relationship by marriage (as between a husband and his wife's blood relations, or between a wife and her husband's blood relations); -- in contradistinction to consanguinity, or relationship by blood; -- followed by with, to, or between..
Conjugium :: Conjugium (n.) The marriage tie.
Cry :: Cry (v. t.) to publish the banns of, as for marriage..
Condone :: Condone (v. t.) To pardon; to overlook the offense of; esp., to forgive for a violation of the marriage law; -- said of either the husband or the wife..
Demography :: Demography (n.) The study of races, as to births, marriages, mortality, health, etc..
Match :: Match (v. i.) To be united in marriage; to mate.
Handfast :: Handfast (v. t.) To pledge; to bind; to betroth by joining hands, in order to cohabitation, before the celebration of marriage..
Nullity :: Nullity (n.) Nonexistence; as, a decree of nullity of marriage is a decree that no legal marriage exists..
Cross :: Cross (a.) Made in an opposite direction, or an inverse relation; mutually inverse; interchanged; as, cross interrogatories; cross marriages, as when a brother and sister marry persons standing in the same relation to each other..
Marrried :: Marrried (a.) Of or pertaining to marriage; connubial; as, the married state..
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