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Marry   /mˈɛri/   Listen
verb
Marry  v. t.  (past & past part. married; pres. part. 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. 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."
5.
Figuratively, to unite in the closest and most endearing relation. "Turn, O backsliding children, saith the Lord; for I am married unto you."
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.



Marry  v. i.  To enter into the conjugal or connubial state; to take a husband or a wife. "I will, therefore, that the younger women marry."
Marrying man, a man disposed to marry. (Colloq.)



interjection
Marry  interj.  Indeed! in truth! a term of asseveration said to have been derived from the practice of swearing by the Virgin Mary. (Obs.)






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... Kindly he had to be, if only by his inheritance from a Quaker ancestry, but he was a Friend one degree removed. Sentimental and emotional he must have been, or he could never have persuaded a daughter of Dr. Arnold to marry him. Pure gold, without a trace of base metal; honest, unselfish, practical; he took up the Union cause and made himself its champion, as a true Yorkshireman was sure to do, partly because of his Quaker anti-slavery convictions, and partly because it ...
— The Education of Henry Adams • Henry Adams

... of his were most often discouraged—the thing seemed feasible. For one thing, his father was going to bring home a new mother; a lady, he gathered, who had not only settled down to be a good worker, but who, in espousing his father, would curiously not marry beneath her. Without being told so, he had absorbed from his first mother a conviction that this was possible to but few women. He felt a little glow of pride for his father in ...
— Bunker Bean • Harry Leon Wilson

... that boardin' house down the street an' I see a likely lookin' gal there lately an' I wanted some one to help milk an' look after the house, so I asks her to marry me. She says she will, so we hitched up an' I never knew she was one o' yer dern freaks until it was too late. She says she's a "Tattooed Lady," an' ...
— Side Show Studies • Francis Metcalfe

... you are not going to lose the dandy's self-possession? I quite understand that your position is risky. A man would not marry, excepting from utter despair. Marriage is suicide for the man of the world. (In a low voice) Come, tell me—can ...
— Mercadet - A Comedy In Three Acts • Honore De Balzac

... appropriation, for, unlike too many fathers, this exemplary man considered only the sweetness, goodness, and personal worth of the girl, caring not a straw for other matters, and being strongly of opinion that a man should marry young if he possess the spirit of a man or the means to support a wife. As he was particularly fond of Kathleen, and felt quite sure that his son had deeper reasons than he chose to express for his course of action, he entertained a strong hope, not to say conviction, that ...
— Blown to Bits - The Lonely Man of Rakata, the Malay Archipelago • R.M. Ballantyne


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