marry1
/ˈmari
/- You get in that church and get married to Brianna, this instant.
- It is that freedom which entitles churches not to marry any couples if to do so would offend their beliefs.
- At St Joseph's Church two couples were married while St Mary's, Our Lady of the Rosary and Our Lady of Lourdes had one wedding each.
Synonyms
- We interpret this as evidence that the desire for boys lead some husbands to marry another woman if his first wife delivers a girl.
- Upon a husband's death, his wife is expected to marry his brother, who also assumes responsibility for any children.
- Upon the death of his wife, John marries her sister.
Synonyms
- One need not become a Vermont resident to marry or enter a civil union there.
- In 1653 he married and entered the local artists' guild and by 1655 had taken over his father's businesses.
- Clive ends the relationship when he marries and enters public life.
- She felt he deserved to know what sort of family he would be marrying into, but then she feared that if he knew the truth he would not want to marry her at all.
- I was abused by an uncle and ended up marrying into a family of gangsters.
- We hoped he was the nice, good-looking one who seemed calm enough to handle any emergency, an essential quality for anyone marrying into our family.
- He said it was sad that most school-going children in rural districts were being married off by their parents.
- Mary's best hope, then, was to acquire good house-keeping skills and be married off by her father.
- Today was the big day; my only daughter was getting married off to Cyril!
- It's just a question actually of marrying them together and getting the right balance.
- We are marrying the two together now better than we have ever done.
- The final step was to marry the two skills together.
- Grilled Swordfish works beautifully with a big, buttery Chardonnay because the richness of the fish and the toasty nuances from the grill marry well with those flavor elements in the wine.
- At large parties I find it helps to make up the base an hour or so before required, so that the flavours can mingle and marry.
- The exotic combination was not overpowering, and married well with the fish.
- This is called 'marrying the ropes' and is a simple and effective way to ensure that you don't let any of the rope slip back through whilst tying it off.
- Unlay the ends to be joined. Go back three or more complete turns. Now marry the loosened strands.
Phrases
be the marrying kind
marry in haste, repent at leisure
marry money
Origin
Middle English: from Old French marier, from Latin maritare, from maritus, literally 'married', (as a noun) 'husband'.
Both marry and marriage (Middle English) come from Old French marier ‘to marry’, which goes back to Latin maritus ‘a husband’, source also of marital (early 16th century). Traditional advice on marriage includes marry in haste and repent at leisure, from the late 16th century, and never marry for money, but marry where money is, first formulated in Alfred Lord Tennyson's poem ‘Northern Farmer, New Style’ (1870). A marriage of convenience is one concluded to achieve a practical purpose. The essayist Joseph Addison used the expression in the early 18th century, translating French mariage de convenance. Whatever the married state, we have been assured since the mid 16th century that marriages are made in heaven, and since the mid 17th that marriage is a lottery. It is typical of the way we use words from different sources in English that we speak of a marriage, from French, in the abstract, but when we talk of the actual, concrete celebrations we usually use wedding, which has been in use since Anglo-Saxon times going back to a Germanic root meaning ‘to pledge’.
Rhymes
marry2
/ˈmari/- Marry, he doth not use to wear a night-cap, for his horns will not let him.
- Marry, doth my cousin Silence know, is he advised of the matter?
Origin
Late Middle English: variant of Mary1.