Marry /(?)/

imp. & p. p. Married; p. pr. & vb. n. Marrying

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.

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.

3. To dispose of in wedlock; to give away as wife.

   Maecenas took the liberty to tell him [Augustus] that he must either marry his daughter [Julia] to Agrippa, or take away his life.

4. To take for husband or wife. See the Note below.

   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.

5. Figuratively, to unite in the closest and most endearing relation.

   Turn, O backsliding children, saith the Lord; for I am married unto you.

1. To enter into the conjugal or connubial state; to take a husband or a wife.

   I will, therefore, that the younger women marry.

1. Indeed! in truth! -- a term of asseveration said to have been derived from the practice of swearing by the Virgin Mary. [Obs.]