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marrying 音標拼音: [m'ɛriɪŋ] 合成 合成 Marry \ Mar" ry\, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. { Married}; p. pr. & vb. n. { Marrying}.] [ OE. marien, F. marier, L. maritare, fr. maritus husband, fr. mas, maris, a male. See { Male}, and cf. { Maritral}.] 1. 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. [ 1913 Webster] Tell him that he shall marry the couple himself. -- Gay. [ 1913 Webster] 2. To join according to law, ( a man) to a woman as his wife, or ( a woman) to a man as her husband. See the Note to def. 4. [ 1913 Webster] A woman who had been married to her twenty- fifth husband, and being now a widow, was prohibited to marry. -- Evelyn. [ 1913 Webster] 3. To dispose of in wedlock; to give away as wife. [ 1913 Webster] Maecenas took the liberty to tell him [ Augustus] that he must either marry his daughter [ Julia] to Agrippa, or take away his life. -- Bacon. [ 1913 Webster] 4. To take for husband or wife. See the Note below. [ 1913 Webster] Note: We say, a man is married to or marries a woman; or, a woman is married to or marries a man. Both of these uses are equally well authorized; but given in marriage is said only of the woman. [ 1913 Webster] They got him [ the Duke of Monmouth] . . . to declare in writing, that the last king [ Charles II.] told him he was never married to his mother. -- Bp. Lloyd. [ 1913 Webster] 5. Figuratively, to unite in the closest and most endearing relation. [ 1913 Webster] Turn, O backsliding children, saith the Lord; for I am married unto you. -- Jer. iii. 14. [ 1913 Webster] { To marry ropes}. ( Naut.) ( a) To place two ropes along side of each other so that they may be grasped and hauled on at the same time. ( b) To join two ropes end to end so that both will pass through a block. -- Ham. Nav. Encyc. [ 1913 Webster]
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