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单词 marital
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maritaladj.

Brit. /ˈmarᵻtl/, U.S. /ˈmɛrədl/
Forms: 1600s maritall, 1600s– marital.
Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French marital; Latin marītālis.
Etymology: < Middle French, French marital (1531 in sense 1, 1580 in sense 2) and its etymon classical Latin marītālis conjugal, nuptial, of a married woman, of or belonging to a husband < marītus (see marry v.) + -ālis -al suffix1. Compare Italian maritale (14th cent. in senses 1 and 2), Spanish marital (1444), Portuguese marital (16th cent.).
1. Of or relating to marriage, or the relations between a husband and wife.In some modern contexts, marital is occasionally used with more general reference to any (sexual) relationship similar to that of a husband and wife.
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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
c1429 Mirour Mans Saluacioune (1986) l. 5008 Crist of the, vacant touchyngs maritales [L. maritalibus] was borne.]
1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. iii. v. 510 He depainteth hir somewhat stirring for a maritall Venus.
1660 Bp. J. Taylor Ductor Dubitantium I. ii. ii. 298 The Dearnesses of Brother and Sister..if they were not made holy and separate by a law would easily change into Marital loves.
1840 W. M. Thackeray Paris Sketch Bk. I. 197 What a deal of marital discomfort might have been avoided.
1858 Ld. St. Leonards Handy Bk. Prop. Law xii. 79 The restitution of marital rights would be enforced if sought for.
1902 A. Thomson Lauder & Lauderdale xiii. 131 Although the two Houses were in marital relationship, they were almost always at daggers drawn.
1927 A. M. Carr-Saunders & D. C. Jones Surv. Social Struct. Eng. & Wales 8 The following table sets out what may be called the marital condition of the population.
1960 Times 4 Mar. 13/7 The straitest champion of marital fidelity would, surely, not defend such monstrous Paul Prying.
1992 Times of India 30 July 6/1 All that talk about addiction, trauma, dysfunctional family relationships, marital troubles, self-help and recovery sounded like the daily diet on her show.
2. Of, relating to, or characteristic of a husband. Obsolete.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > married person > married man > [adjective] > relating to a husband
marital1616
gamical1660
1616 J. Bullokar Eng. Expositor Maritall, husbandlike.
1644 J. Maxwell Sacro-sancta Regum Majestas 23 A woman by her choice and consent designeth her husband, but the maritall power and dominion is onely from God.
1726 J. Ayliffe Parergon Juris Canonici Anglicani 49 Christian Charity as well as Marital Affection.
1861 W. M. Thackeray Philip vii The two poor sisters had had to regulate their affections by the marital orders, and to be warm, cool, moderate, freezing, according to their husbands' state for the time being.
1872 J. C. Jeaffreson Brides & Bridals I. ii. 21 The duty of wifely submissiveness to marital authority was impressively inculcated.

Compounds

marital aid n. euphemistic any device for the production or enhancement of sexual stimulation.
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1969 Independent-Press-Telegram (Long Beach, Calif.) 27 July a17 The bookstore..bears a sign advertising ‘marital aids, exotic books, exotic magazines, art films and party novelties’.
1976 Burnham-on-Sea Gaz. 20 Apr. 7/4 (advt.) We sell a wide range of marital aid appliances... Send for our..catalogue—it'll help you put more life into loving.
1993 Daily Mail 9 July 5/1 The set of photographs..show her in exuberant mood as she poses with a sex shop marital aid.
marital bed n. a bed in which a married couple sleep together.
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1651 Bp. J. Taylor Rule & Exercises Holy Dying iii. ix. §1 We should have..thought the Grid-iron fairer than the spondæ, the ribs of a marital bed.
1962 New Statesman 19 Jan. 96/2 A Mickey Mouse clock ticks beside the marital bed.
1998 Daily Tel. 11 Dec. 22/2 There were some who blamed the breakdown of the marriage on Diamond's fondness for allowing her young sons to sleep in the marital bed.
marital home n. a home in which a married couple live together.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > [noun] > place of settlement after marriage
residence1865
marital home1910
1910 Columbia Law Rev. 10 670 Where one spouse justifies the other in leaving the marital home the one remaining is, of course, deemed the deserter.
1997 Gallop! Jan. 12/1 William and Wiggy show off their honeymoon snaps, the horses, the marital home and other trappings of happy coupledom.
marital status n. the situation with regard to whether a person is married, single, widowed, divorced, etc. (frequently used as a term in official forms and documents).
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > [noun] > status as married or single
state1340
marital status1882
1882 Amer. Law Reg. Sept. 589 Although the marriage in Illinois was valid, the decree of the court of Wurtemberg annulling it must be accepted as having destroyed the marital status resulting from the marriage.
1906 Jrnl. Polit. Econ. 14 17 The ‘Population’ schedule..contained inquiries regarding residence, general nativity, sex, color, parentage, place of birth, marital status, and citizenship of all inhabitants of the United States.
1948 A. C. Kinsey et al. Sexual Behavior Human Male iii. 76 Marital status. A 3-way breakdown into single, married, and post-marital groups.
1991 New Scientist 5 Jan. 25/3 In the first phase of data input, staff enter the ‘easy-to-code’ information from tickbox sections, such as sex or marital status.
marital therapy n. any form of therapy aimed at relieving problems in the relationship of a married couple (more widely: of any couple).
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1961 Amer. Sociol. Rev. 26 538/2 We have tapped everything from a ‘Marital Therapy Club’ to ‘Joe's Regulars’, a semi-formal, bar-connected drinking club.
1966 Comprehensive Psychiatry 7 337 Interpretations in marital therapy work from the defenses of one spouse to complementary defenses in the other.
1988 in R. Dinnage One to One 43 My husband was feeling very threatened..so we went to marital therapy together.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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