单词 | marrying |
释义 | marryingn. Marriage; the action of entering into matrimony. Also (in extended use): the action of joining or blending two things together. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fact or action of being joined or joining > [noun] > close, intimate, or permanent joining spousal1340 weddingc1380 solding1398 marriagec1400 espousal?c1450 soldering?1550 marryinga1566 twist1580 suture1600 welding1603 ferrumination1606 cementation1836 cementing1868 society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > action or fact of marrying > [noun] > giving in marriage marrying1579 a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) 10657 (MED) Maria wald na mariing [a1400 Trin. Cambr. marying], Bot maiden liue til hir ending. c1480 (a1400) St. Matthew 344 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 200 Syne sad he þus of maryinge. 1504 in J. Robertson Illustr. Topogr. & Antiq. Aberdeen & Banff (1857) III. 138 To pay..for the honorabile marrying of hir with the lard of Innerytys son. a1566 T. Hoby Trav. (1902) 17 Venice..they have a wonderous great ceremonie abowt the marying of the see. 1579 E. K. in E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. Mar. 97 Gloss. He was busie aboute the marying of Polyxena. 1607 Edinb. Test. XLII. f. 314v, in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Mary-, Marrying(e How sone the said Helein takis hir to the marryng of ane vther husband. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost xi. 716 All now was turn'd to jollitie..Marrying or prostituting, as befell. View more context for this quotation 1753 H. Walpole Lett. (1857) II. 337 G——d d——n the bishops... So they will hinder my marrying... I'll be revenged! I'll buy two or three acres of ground, and..underbury them all! 1794 E. Fitzgerald Let. 23 June in G. Campbell Edward & Pamela Fitzgerald (1904) vi. 72 I don't think you would like Ireland, besides perhaps the marrying of your girls in England. 1832 F. A. Butler Jrnl. 15 Sept. (1835) I. 104 The whole of which..appeared a strange marrying of incongruities. 1891 Athenæum 17 Jan. 86/3 There is plenty of love and some marrying. 1917 B. Grimshaw Nobody's Island v. 61 Such greens, such blues, such marryings of both, not brush and colour, nor pen and ink, could paint. 1952 Economist 8 Nov. 401/1 The marrying of reactors with power generators. 1994 Computer Bull. 16/2 Although videophones have begun to be accepted by senior management as an important means of personalising telephone discussions, it's the marrying of a computer to a videophone that opens up a whole new world of possibilities for the rest of the organisation. Compounds C1. a. General attributive. marrying age n. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > fitness for marriage > [noun] > age for marrying marrying age1860 1860 W. G. Simms Areytos 271 You're quite of a marrying age. 1869 H. F. Tozer Res. Highlands of Turkey II. 120 Daughters..when they reach nineteen..are looked upon as almost past the marrying age. 1983 C. Voigt Callender Papers (1989) ix. 133 Both Mr and Mrs Callender kept talking to me about Joseph, as if I were of marrying age. marrying day n. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > wedding or nuptials > time of wedding > [noun] > wedding day marriage day1447 marrying day1546 wedding-daya1556 bride daya1641 big day1827 1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue i. viii. sig. Bivv Sens our one mariyng or marryng daie. 1677 Duke of Newcastle & T. Shadwell Triumphant Widow v. 80 Hanging and marrying day comes together I see now. 1831 J. Banim & M. Banim Chaunt of Cholera 76 Do you know what they say About what we're for doing next marrying day? b. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > wedding or nuptials > marriage vows or bonds > [noun] > marriage or wedding bond > ring as token of wedding-ringc1386 marrying ring1504 marriage ring1568 band1671 bridal ring1717 bride ring1810 church-ring1856 wedding band1946 1504 in S. Tymms Wills & Inventories Bury St. Edmunds (1850) 98 Item I bequeth to our Lady of Walsyngham..my maryeng ryng. 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. ccxlv Aboute her mariyng ryng was written: God sende me wel to kepe. C2. marrying-in n. the action of taking a spouse from within one's own community, religious group, etc. (cf. endogamy n. 1). ΚΠ 1875 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) III. 163 The marrying in and in of the same family tends constantly to weakness or idiotcy. 1983 Man 18 222 The Sovedu find marrying-in the strategy best suited to their type of succession. marrying-out n. the action of taking a spouse from outside one's own community, religious group, etc. (cf. exogamy n.). ΚΠ 1842 Southern Literary Messenger 8 331/2 ‘Marrying out’, as the Friends call one of a different faith, is regarded by them with especial horror. 1954 E. E. Evans-Pritchard Inst. Primitive Society vi. 68 The rule of exogamy—the rule of marrying-out—which required that a man must not marry inside a defined set of his own kin. 1998 Guardian 23 May 23/7 The marrying-out rate for men [in the Jewish community in Britain] is 40 per cent. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022). marryingadj. 1. Inclined or likely to marry. Now chiefly in (not) the marrying kind and variants. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > fitness for marriage > [adjective] > inclined or likely to marry marryinga1669 a1669 J. Howard Eng. Mounsieur (1674) i. i. 7 Well, I'le lay a wager thou hast lost all thy money at Play, for then you'r alwaies in a marrying humor. 1675 J. Crowne Countrey Wit i. i. 6 But you forsooth, and your Refin'd Wits, think there were never any Wits but your selves; that your Fathers were all a Pack of honest marrying Fools. 1739 J. Miller Hosp. for Fools 28 If 'twas not for the Marrying Fool, How would you Virgins fare? 1756 Ld. Chesterfield in World 1137 The pretty men..are not in general the marrying kind of men. 1778 F. Burney Evelina III. xiv. 149 I think Miss Anville the loveliest of her sex, and, were I a marrying man, she, of all the women I have seen, I would fix upon for a wife. 1857 C. Dickens Little Dorrit ii. xv. 450 She had not thought Edmund a marrying man. 1861 W. M. Thackeray Four Georges i. 8 Duke George, the marrying duke. 1915 W. Cather Song of Lark i. xiv. 102 Thea is not the marrying kind. 1930 Times Lit. Suppl. 448/2 Nobody ever suspected him of being a marrying man. 1960 Woman's Illustr. 16 July 54 So far as women are concerned, some are the marrying type, some are not. 1989 Woman's Realm 11 Apr. 35/2 He looked at her briefly from across the scrubbed table. ‘I'm not the marrying kind, either.’ 2. Designating a priest, minister, etc., who officiates at a marriage ceremony. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > wedding or nuptials > [adjective] > performing marriage ceremony marrying1891 1891 E. Kinglake Austral. at Home 62 If a minister knowingly marries a minor without consent of guardians he is liable to a fine of £300... These marrying gentry are not much given to inquiring into the circumstances under which their clients come to them. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1400adj.a1669 |
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