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单词 to commit marriage
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to commit marriage (also matrimony)
P4. transitive. to commit marriage (also matrimony): to marry.In later use frequently with humorous allusion to sense 9a (cf. sense 11).
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1589 J. Lyly Pappe with Hatchet sig. E3 Because thou saist thou art vnmarried, thou maist commit matrimonie.
1594 J. Lyly Mother Bombie i. iii. sig. Bv I haue bene tampering as long to haue a marriage committed betweene my wench and Memphios only son.
1690 T. Shadwell Amorous Bigotte iv. 33 Didsht dou not maake Vow unto me, never to commit marriage.
1699 R. L'Estrange Fables (ed. 3) I. 306 A creeping young fellow committed matrimony with a brisk gamesome lass.
1741 Erskine tr. A. F. Prévost d'Exiles Mem. & Adventures Marquis de Bretagne & Duc d'Harcourt III. 235 We should slip privately out of Town, and go streight to Paris, where we were to commit Marriage on our Arrival.
1781 T. L. O'Beirne Generous Impostor iii. 44 Had I committed matrimony with you, hanging or drowning would be my only refuge.
1828 Whitby Panorama July 193 I have long threatened to commit matrimony.
1867 R. E. Lee Let. 23 Feb. in Recoll. & Lett. Gen. R. E. Lee (1904) xiv. 256 We were somewhat surprised the other morning at Mrs. Grady's committing matrimony.
1903 Ohio Law Bull. 25 May 216/2 ‘You shouldn't say this young couple “committed” matrimony.’ ‘Why not?’ ‘It isn't good taste. You talk as if they had done something wrong.’
2005 R. Roszel Just Friends xii You have no intention of committing matrimony with him or, most likely, anybody.
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