hymenealadj.n.
/hʌɪməˈniːəl/ A. adj.
Pertaining to marriage.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > [adjective]
matrimonial1449
yoked1531
conjugal1545
geniala1547
marriageable1597
married1598
hymeneal1602
marital1603
hymenean1606
weddeda1616
matrimonious1645
connubial1656
gamical1660
hymenial1710
1602 J. Marston Antonios Reuenge iii. v. sig. F4v Disloyal to our Hymniall rites.
1654 R. Whitlock Ζωοτομία 522 Martyrs..who lookt on flaming Faggots, but as Hymenæall, and Nuptiall Torches.
1792 F. Burney Lett. to J. Bryant 7 Aug. Views of hymeneal connexions.
1838 J. Grant Sketches London 165 The ‘lovely bride’, about to be led to the hymeneal altar.
B. n.
1. A wedding-hymn.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > wedding or nuptials > music, song, or bells > [noun] > song
bride-songOE
marriage song1582
bedding ballad1589
epithalamy1589
epithalamium1595
prothalamion1597
wedding-song1598
Hymen1613
hymenean1667
hymeneal1717
marriage lay1728
society > faith > worship > church music > hymn > kinds of hymn > wedding > [noun]
bride-songOE
Hymen1613
hymenean1667
hymeneal1717
society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > vocal music > types of song > [noun] > wedding song
bride-songOE
marriage song1582
bedding ballad1589
epithalamy1589
epithalamium1595
prothalamion1597
wedding-song1598
Hymen1613
hymenean1667
hymeneal1717
marriage lay1728
1717 A. Pope Eloisa to Abelard in Wks. 428 For her white virgins Hymenæals sing.
1719 Free-thinker No. 140. 1 The Birds warbled out their Hymeneals.
1871 R. Ellis tr. Catullus Poems lxi. 4 Now doth a virgin approach, now soundeth a glad hymeneal.
2. plural. A wedding, nuptials.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > wedding or nuptials > [noun]
wifethingeOE
bridelopeOE
brydthing971
bridelockOE
bridalOE
noces?c1225
wedlocka1300
spousingc1300
weddingc1300
marriagea1375
espousala1393
sponsalia1535
nuptial1566
espousing1581
nuptial1581
marriage rite1592
nuptiallings1600
Hymen1608
marriage ceremony1616
bridaltya1637
confarreation1645
hymeneals1655
farreation1656
church wedding1852
nuptialities1863
shadi1893
matrimonials1986
1655 Theophania 112 All in general expected either with envy or desire the consummation of their hymeneals.
1744 H. Walpole Let. 22 Mar. in Lett. to H. Mann (1833) I. 358 I will not talk any more politically, but turn to hymeneals.
1809 M. Edgeworth Manœuvring xiv, in Tales Fashionable Life III. 357 All the pride, pomp, and circumstance of these glorious hymeneals appeared to them but as a dream.
Derivatives
hymeˈneally adv.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > [adverb]
conjugally1620
hymeneally1839
connubially1884
1839 T. Hook in New Monthly Mag. 55 443 The ‘roseate bands’, which sound so harmoniously and so hymeneally, had not been sufficiently strong.
1841 J. W. Orderson Creoleana xv. 167 Our hymeneally addicted isle.
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