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lock. If either of you know any impediment, why ye may not be lawfully joined together in matrimony, ye do now confessit. Book of Com. Prayer (Eng. Ed. )

Begotten and born out of lawful matrimony; illegitimate. See Bastard, n., note.

Something desirable to be caught, esp. a husband or wife in matrimony. [Colloq.] Marryat.

Not covert; not within the bonds of matrimony; unmarried; -- applied either to a woman who has never married or to a widow.

perly a divorce, and called, technically, divorce a vinculo matrimonii. "from the bond of matrimony."

Pertaining to the household; domestic. "In this economical misfortune [of ill-assorted matrimony.]" Milton.

ing by a party that he or she is married to another, whereby a common reputation of their matrimony may ensue. Blackstone.

To unite in marriage. He that joineth his virgin in matrimony. Wyclif. What, therefore, God hath joined together, let not man put asunder. Matt. xix. 6.

Without heed or care; with levity; gayly; airily. Matrimony . . . is not by any to be enterprised, nor taken in hand, unadvisedly, lightly, or wantonly. Book of Common Prayer [Eng. Ed.].

f being married; legal union of a man and a woman for life, as husband and wife; wedlock; matrimony. Marriage is honorable in all. Heb. xiii. 4.

Being in the state of matrimony; wedded; as, a married man or woman.

To unite in wedlock or matrimony; to perform the ceremony of joining, as a man and a woman, for life; to constitute (a man and a woman) husband and wife according to the laws or customs of the place. Tell him that he shall marry the couple himself. Gay.

A candidate for matrimony; one to be gained in marriage. "She . . . was looked upon as the richest match of the West." Clarendon.

Matrimony. [Obs.]

er, and by turning things over. He has such a general rummage and reform in the office of matrimony. Walpole. Rummage sale, a clearance sale of unclaimed goods in a public store, or of odds and ends which have accumulated in a shop. Simmonds.

To solemnize; as, to solemnizate matrimony. [R.] Bp. Burnet.

Not capable of being brought into harmony; irreconcilable. "Unatonable matrimony." [Obs.] Milton.

To contact matrimony; to marry. "When I shall wed." Shak.

The ceremony, or the state, of marriage; matrimony. "That blissful yoke . . . that men clepeth [call] spousal, or wedlock." Chaucer. For what is wedlock forced but a hell, An age of discord or continual strife Shak.