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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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97 words match “MARRIED”

MARRIED a. 2 definitions
Being in the state of matrimony; wedded; as, a married man or woman.
ABELIAN; ABELITE; ABELONIAN n.
One of a sect in Africa (4th century), mentioned by St. Augustine, who states that they married, but lived in continence, after the manner, as they pretended, of Abel.
ADULTERER n.
A man who commits adultery; a married man who has sexual intercourse with a woman not his wife.
ADULTERY n.
The unfaithfulness of a married person to the marriage bed; sexual intercourse by a married man with another than his wife, or voluntary sexual intercourse by a married woman with another than her husband.
AGAMIST n.
An unmarried person; also, one opposed to marriage. Foxe.
BACHELOR n. 2 definitions
A man of any age who has not been married. As merry and mellow an old bachelor as ever followed a hound. W. Irving.
BED v.
To go to bed; to cohabit. If he be married, and bed with his wife. Wiseman.
BENEDICT; BENEDICK n.
A married man, or a man newly married.
BIGAMY n.
The offense of marrying one person when already legally married to another. Wharton.
BLESSEDNESS n.
favor of God. The assurance of a future blessedness. Tillotson. Single blessedness, the unmarried state. "Grows, lives, and dies in single blessedness." Shak.
BOTHY; BOOTHY n.
A wooden hut or humble cot, esp. a rude hut or barrack for unmarried farm servants; a shepherd's or hunter's hut; a booth. [Scot.]
BRIDE n.
A woman newly married, or about to be married. Has by his own experience tried How much the wife is dearer than the bride. Lyttleton. I will show thee the bride, the Lamb's wife. Rev. xxi. 9.
BRIDEGROOM n.
A man newly married, or just about to be married.
CELIBACY n.
The state of being unmarried; single life, esp. that of a bachelor, or of one bound by vows not to marry. "The celibacy of the clergy." Hallom.
CELIBATE n. 2 definitions
One who is unmarried, esp. a bachelor, or one bound by vows not to marry.
CELIBATIST n.
One who lives unmarried. [R.]
CHASTE a.
Unmarried. [Obs.] Chaucer.
CHASTITY n.
The unmarried life; celibacy. [Obs.] Chaucer.
CICISBEO n.
A professed admirer of a married woman; a dangler about women.
CONCERNING n.
Concern; participation; interposition. He married a daughter to the earl without any other approbation of her father or concernment in it, than suffering him and her come into his presence. Clarendon.
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