† bridelockn.
Obsolete.
Marriage; the state of wedlock. Also (in Old English in plural): a marriage ceremony, a wedding.In quot. OE1 in figurative Christian context, with reference to Christ as a bridegroom; cf. bridegroom n. 2.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > [noun]
bridelockOE
yokeOE
spousehooda1200
spousea1225
wedlock?c1225
wedlockhoodc1230
marriagec1300
spousal1340
matrimonya1382
espousala1393
muliera1400
spousagea1400
spouseheadc1400
weddedhooda1450
wedhooda1450
wedding1489
espousage1549
the bond(s of wedlock or matrimony1552
nuptial1566
bed-match1582
bob-tail1585
Hymen's banda1593
Hymen1608
married life1609
conjugality1645
marriage state1652
conjugacy1659
marriage life1662
establishment1684
shackledom1771
connubiality1836
connubialism1848
weddedness1891
bedlock1922
the tender trap1954
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
OE Ælfric Lives of Saints (Julius) (1881) I. 172 Ic beo mæden forð, and þær bærn ne ateoriað on ðam brydlace.
OE Ælfric Let. to Wulfsige (Corpus Cambr.) in B. Fehr Die Hirtenbriefe Ælfrics (1914) 7 Ne nan preost ne mot beon æt þam brydlacum ahwær þær man æft wifað.
c1225 (?c1200) St. Juliana (Bodl.) l. 55 To brudlac & to bed ibrohte.
c1225 (?c1200) Hali Meiðhad (Bodl.) (1940) l. 104 On hare brudlakes dei.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2019; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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