Spousal \Spous"al\, n. [See Espousal, Spouse.]
Marriage; nuptials; espousal; -- generally used in the
plural; as, the spousals of Hippolita. --Dryden.
Boweth your head under that blissful yoke . . . Which
that men clepeth spousal or wedlock. --Chaucer.
the spousals of the newborn year. --Emerson.
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) |