Definition of marriage

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Marriage (v. t.) Any intimate or close union.

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Conjugium :: Conjugium (n.) The marriage tie.
Misogamy :: Misogamy (n.) Hatre/ of marriage.
Nuptial :: Nuptial (a.) Of or pertaining to marriage; done or used at a wedding; as, nuptial rites and ceremonies..
Divorcement :: Divorcement (n.) Dissolution of the marriage tie; divorce; separation.
Match :: Match (v.) A candidate for matrimony; one to be gained in marriage.
Offer :: Offer (v. t.) To bring to or before; to hold out to; to present for acceptance or rejection; as, to offer a present, or a bribe; to offer one's self in marriage..
Propose :: Propose (v. i.) To offer one's self in marriage.
Confarreation :: Confarreation (n.) A form of marriage among the Romans, in which an offering of bread was made, in presence of the high priest and at least ten witnesses..
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..
Stepbrother :: Step- () A prefix used before father, mother, brother, sister, son, daughter, child, etc., to indicate that the person thus spoken of is not a blood relative, but is a relative by the marriage of a parent; as, a stepmother to X is the wife of the father of X, married by him after the death of the mother of X. See Stepchild, Stepdaughter, Stepson, etc..
Dismarry :: Dismarry (v. t.) To free from the bonds of marriage; to divorce.
Parapherna :: Parapherna (n. pl.) The property of a woman which, on her marriage, was not made a part of her dower, but remained her own..
Surrogate :: Surrogate (n.) The deputy of an ecclesiastical judge, most commonly of a bishop or his chancellor, especially a deputy who grants marriage licenses..
Incest :: Incest (n.) The crime of cohabitation or sexual commerce between persons related within the degrees wherein marriage is prohibited by law.
Registrar :: Registrar (n.) One who registers; a recorder; a keeper of records; as, a registrar of births, deaths, and marriages. See Register, n., 3..
Stepfather :: Stepdaughter (n.) A daughter of one's wife or husband by a former marriage.
Wedded :: Wedded (a.) Of or pertaining to wedlock, or marriage..
Espouse :: Espouse (v. t.) To betroth; to promise in marriage; to give as spouse.
Levir :: Levir (n.) A husband's brother; -- used in reference to levirate marriages.
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..
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