单词 | to change one's condition |
释义 | > as lemmasto change (alter) one's condition d. to change (alter) one's condition: to get married. archaic or dialect. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > action or fact of marrying > marry [verb (intransitive)] weda1225 marrya1325 spousec1390 to make matrimonyc1400 intermarry1528 contract1530 to give (also conjoin, join, take) in (also to, into) marriage1535 to make a match1547 yoke1567 match1569 mate1589 to go to church (with a person)1600 to put one's neck in a noosec1600 paira1616 to join giblets1647 buckle1693 espouse1693 to change (alter) one's condition1712 to tie the knot1718 to marry out1727 to wedlock it1737 solemnize1748 forgather1768 unite1769 connubiate1814 conjugalize1823 connubialize1870 splice1874 to get hitched up1890 to hook up1903 1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 522. ⁋1 The chief motives to a prudent young woman of fortune for changing her condition. 1768 in Wesley's Jrnl. 25 May (1827) III. 321 You have also thoughts of altering your condition; but if you marry him..it will draw you from God. 1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian i, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. III. 11 She expected him to say ‘Jenny, I am gaun to change my condition’. < as lemmas |
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