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To unite or join, as in affection, harmony, company, marriage, etc.; to associate. He with his consorted Eve. Milton. For all that pleasing is to living ears Was there consorted in one harmony. Spenser. He begins to consort himself with men. Locke.

ty, peace, and lague with the aforesaid queen. Hakluyt. Many persons . . . had contracted marriage within the degrees of consanguinity . . . prohibited by law. Strype.

A marriage contract. [Obs.] Shak.

arrants in contravention of the acts of Parliament. Macaulay. In contravention of all his marriage stipulations. Motley.

To endeavor to gain the affections of; to seek in marriage; to woo. If either of you both love Katharina . . . leave shall you have to court her at your pleasure. Shak.

One who courts; one who plays the lover, or who solicits in marriage; one who flatters and cajoles. Sherwood.

The act of wooing in love; solicitation of woman to marriage. This method of courtship, [by which] both sides are prepared for all the matrimonial adventures that are to follow. Goldsmith.

The condition of a woman during marriage, because she is considered under the cover, influence, power, and protection of her husband, and therefore called a feme covert, or femme couverte.

or an inverse relation; mutually inverse; interchanged; as, cross interrogatories; cross marriages, as when a brother and sister marry persons standing in the same relation to each other. Cross action (Law), an action brought by a party who is sued against the person who has sued him, upon the same subject matter, as…

Hence, to publish the banns of, as for marriage. I should not be surprised if they were cried in church next Sabbath. Judd. To cry aim. See under Aim. -- To cry down, to decry; to depreciate; to dispraise; to condemn. Men of dissolute lives cry down religion, because they would not be under the restraints of it. Tillo…

e of declining or refusing; withdrawal; refusal; averseness. The queen's declination from marriage. Stow.

ower; to degrade; -- followed by the reflexive pronoun. Her son would demean himself by a marriage with an artist's daughter. Thackeray.

The study of races, as to births, marriages, mortality, health, etc. -- Dem`o*graph"ic, a.

roclamation; announcement; a publishing. [Obs.] Public . . . denunciation of banns before marriage. Bp. Hall.

ll this desponsation of her . . . she had not set one step toward the consummation of her marriage. Jer. Taylor.

A written pledge of marriage. Clarendon.

A second marriage, after the death of the first husband of wife; -- in distinction from bigamy, as defined in the old canon law. See Bigamy. Goldsmith.

daughter of Jupiter and Latona; a virgin goddess who presided over hunting, chastity, and marriage; -- identified with the Greek goddess Artemis. And chaste Diana haunts the forest shade. Pope. Diana monkey (Zoöl.), a handsome, white-bearded monkey of West Africa (Cercopithecus Diana).

Pertaining to a second marriage, that is, one after the death of the first wife or the first husband.

Absolute. Diriment impediment (R. C. Ch.), an impediment that nullifies marriage.