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marrying |
1 definition found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Marry \Mar"ry\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Married}; p. pr & vb n. {Marrying}.] [OE. marien, F. marier, L. maritare fr maritus husband, fr mas, maris, a male. See {Male}, and cf {Maritral}.] 1. 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 Tell him that he shall marry the couple himself. --Gay. 2. 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. A woman who had been married to her twenty-fifth husband, and being now a widow, was prohibited to marry. --Evelyn. 3. To dispose of in wedlock; to give away as wife. M[ae]cenas took the liberty to tell him [Augustus] that he must either marry his daughter [Julia] to Agrippa, or take away his life. --Bacon. 4. To take for husband or wife. See the Note below. Note: We say a man is married to or marries a woman; or a woman is married to or marries a man. Both of these uses are equally well authorized; but given in marriage is said only of the woman. They got him [the Duke of Monmouth] . . . to declare in writing, that the last king [Charles II.] told him he was never married to his mother. --Bp. Lloyd. 5. Figuratively, to unite in the closest and most endearing relation. Turn, O backsliding children, saith the Lord; for I am married unto you --Jer. iii. 14. {To marry ropes}. (Naut.) a To place two ropes along side of each other so that they may be grasped and hauled on at the same time. b To join two ropes end to end so that both will pass through a block. --Ham. Nav. Encyc.
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