miscegenation, the bonds of marriage, vinculum matrimonii [Lat.],
nuptial tie.
married state, coverture, bed, cohabitation.
match; betrothment &c (promise) 768; wedding, nuptials, Hymen,
bridal; espousals, spousals; leading to the altar &c v.; nuptial
benediction, epithalamium†; sealing.
torch of Hymen, temple of Hymen; hymeneal altar; honeymoon.
bridesmaid, bridesman†, best man; bride, bridegroom.
married man, married woman, married couple; neogamist†, Benedict,
partner, spouse, mate, yokemate†; husband, man, consort, baron; old man,
good man; wife of one's bosom; helpmate, rib, better half, gray mare,
old woman, old lady, good wife, goodwife.
feme [Fr.], feme coverte [Fr.]; squaw, lady; matron, matronage,
matronhood†; man and wife; wedded pair, Darby and Joan; spiritual wife.
monogamy, bigamy, digamy†, deuterogamy†, trigamy†, polygamy;
mormonism; levirate†; spiritual wifery†, spiritual wifeism†;
polyandrism†; Turk, bluebeard†.
unlawful marriage, left-handed marriage, morganatic marriage, ill-
assorted marriage; mesalliance; mariage de convenance [Fr.].
marriage broker; matrimonial agency, matrimonial agent,
matrimonial bureau, matchmaker; schatchen [G.].
V. marry, wive, take to oneself a wife; be married, be spliced; go off,
pair off; wed, espouse, get hitched [U.S.], lead to the hymeneal altar,
take 'for better for worse', give one's hand to, bestow one's hand
upon.
marry, join, handfast†; couple &c (unit) 43; tie the nuptial knot;
give away, give away in marriage; seal; ally, affiance; betroth &c
(promise) 768; publish the banns, bid the banns; be asked in church.
Adj. married &c v.; one, one bone and one flesh.
marriageable, nubile.
engaged, betrothed, affianced.
matrimonial, marital, conjugal, connubial, wedded; nuptial,
hymeneal, spousal, bridal.
Phr. the gray mare the better horse; a world-without-end bargain
[Love's Labor's Lost]; marriages are made in Heaven [Tennyson]; render
me worthy of this noble wife [Julius Caesar]; si qua voles apte nubere
nube pari [Lat.] [Ovid].