MARRIAGE
\mˈaɹɪd͡ʒ], \mˈaɹɪdʒ], \m_ˈa_ɹ_ɪ_dʒ]\
Definitions of MARRIAGE
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 2010 - Legal Glossary Database
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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two people who are married to each other; "his second marriage was happier than the first"; "a married couple without love"
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the state of being a married couple voluntarily joined for life (or until divorce); "a long and happy marriage"; "God bless this union"
By Princeton University
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two people who are married to each other; "his second marriage was happier than the first"; "a married couple without love"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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The act of marrying, or the state of being married; legal union of a man and a woman for life, as husband and wife; wedlock; matrimony.
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The marriage vow or contract.
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A feast made on the occasion of a marriage.
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Any intimate or close union.
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In bezique, penuchle, and similar games at cards, the combination of a king and queen of the same suit. If of the trump suit, it is called a royal marriage.
By Oddity Software
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The act of marrying, or the state of being married; legal union of a man and a woman for life, as husband and wife; wedlock; matrimony.
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The marriage vow or contract.
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A feast made on the occasion of a marriage.
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Any intimate or close union.
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In bezique, penuchle, and similar games at cards, the combination of a king and queen of the same suit. If of the trump suit, it is called a royal marriage.
By Noah Webster.
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The legal union of two people. Once a couple is married, their rights and responsibilities toward one another concerning property and support are defined by the laws of the state in which they live. A marriage can only be terminated by a court granting a divorce or annulment. Compare common law marriage.
By Oddity Software
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The social institution involving legal and/or religious sanction whereby men and women are joined together for the purpose of founding a family unit.
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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The act of legally unlting a man and woman in wedlock; the wedding ceremony; the state of being wedded; the relation existing between husband and wife.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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The ceremony by which a man and woman become husband and wife: the union of a man and woman as husband and wife.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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The legal union of a man and woman as husband and wife; wedlock; a marriage ceremony; intimate union. Marriage-articles, the contract or agreement on which a marriage is founded. Marriage-favours, knots of white ribbons, or bunches of white flowers, worn at weddings. Marriage-licence, licence to marry without proclamation of banns.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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HEREDITAMENTS
- Tilings capable of being inherited, be it corporeal or incorporeal,real, personal, mixed, and including not only lands everything thereon, but alsolieir-looms, certain furniture which, by custom, may descend to the heir togetherwith (he land. Co. Litt. 5b; 2 Bl. Comm. 17; Nell is v. Munson, 108 N. Y. 453, 15 E.730; Owens Lewis, 40 Ind. 508, Am. Rep. 205; Whitlock Greacen. 4S J. Eq.350. 21 Atl. 944; Mitchell Warner, 5 Conn. 407; New York Mabie, 13 150, 04Am. Dec. 53S. Estates. Anything capable of being inherited, be it corporeal or incorporeal, real, personal, mixed and including not only lands everything thereon, but also heir looms, certain furniture which, by custom, may descend to the heir, together with land. Co. Litt. 5 b; 1 Tho. 219; 2 Bl. Com. 17. this term such things are denoted, as subject-matter inheritance, inheritance itself; cannot therefore, its own intrinsic force, enlarge an estate, prima facie a life into fee. B. & P. 251; 8 T. R. 503; 219, note Hereditaments are divided into corporeal and incorporeal. confined to lands. (q. v.) Vide Incorporeal hereditaments, Shep. To. 91; Cruise's Dig. tit. 1, s. 1; Wood's Inst.221; 3 Kent, Com. 321; Dane's Ab. Index, h.t.; 1 Chit. Pr. 203-229; 2 Bouv. Inst. n. 1595, et seq.