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intermarry, v.|ɪntəˈmærɪ|
Also 6–7 enter-.
[inter- 1 b.]
1. intr. To contract matrimony, to enter into marriage; to marry.
a. Said of a couple; hence of one person (with another). Now only in legal phraseology, in which it is the ordinary word for the intransitive use.
1574tr. Littleton's Tenures 6 a, Issues that come of the donees after the fowerth degree..may betwixt them by y⊇ law of holy church inter marye. a1626Bacon Max. & Uses Com. Law ix. (1636) 37 If the feme be disseised and intermarry with the disseisor. 1650Bury Wills (Camden) 224 My desire is that she shall not entermarry with any, but live singly. 1721St. German's Doctor & Stud. 70 One of the men entermarrieth with the woman, and alieneth the land. 1823Act 4 Geo. IV, c. 76 §22 If any Persons..shall knowingly and wilfully intermarry without due Publication of Banns, or License..obtained. 1855Motley Dutch Rep. (1861) II. 286 She was then to intermarry with Norfolk.
b. Of members of different families, castes, tribes, nations, or societies, in reference to the connexion thus formed between such families, etc.
1611Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. ix. xx. §66. 974 Neighbour-Kings reputed it safe to enter-marry with his Family. 1665Manley Grotius' Low C. Warres 962 The Hollanders obtaining a garrison there, intermarried with the Native Women. 1701Swift Contests Athens & Rome iii. Misc. (1731) 37 About the middle of the fourth century from the building of Rome, it was declared lawful for nobles and plebeians to intermarry. a1789Mickle Inq. Bramin Philos. (R.), As the Gentoo tribe never intermarry, India may properly be said to contain four different nations. 1899Sayce Early Israel i. 53 The Israelites intermarried with the older population.
c. To marry with each other.
1839–40W. Irving Wolfert's R. (1855) 15 The inhabitants of the Hollow were of the primitive stock, and had intermarried, and bred in and in, from the earliest time of the province. 1843A. Bethune Sc. Fireside Stor. 113 They had married, and intermarried, till nearly the whole inhabitants of the place were in some way or other connected.
2. trans. To join in marriage, to marry (those who are of different races); in quot. fig. (rare.)
1863Hawthorne Our Old Home 82 Without any attempt at intermarrying it [the old custom or institution] with modern fashions.
Hence interˈmarrying vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1843Manning & Granger's Rep. V. 697 Since the intermarrying of the plaintiffs, a sci. fa. had issued to recover the judgment. 1881Athenæum 16 Apr. 528/2 Suppose the people of Middlesex and the people of Surrey to represent two intermarrying but exogamous classes. |