(n.) Hold; grasp; custody; power of confining or keeping.
(n.) Contract; specifically, espousal.
(a.) Fast by contract; betrothed by joining hands.
(v. t.) To pledge; to bind; to betroth by joining hands, in order to cohabitation, before the celebration of marriage.
(n.) Strong; steadfast.
Example Sentences:
(1) It was his suggestion to incorporate handfasting into their ceremony, a pagan tradition where the couple’s hands are symbolically tied together with ribbons, which is a common feature of humanist weddings.
(2) Overnight he had also carried out around a dozen "handfasting" ceremonies – the pagan equivalent of weddings.
Provisionally
Definition:
(adv.) By way of provision for the time being; temporarily.
Example Sentences:
(1) Provisional restorations were fabricated for the prepared teeth using conventional direct techniques, and the intrapulpal temperature rise was recorded.
(2) This stimulation of uptake was due to a macromolecular serum component, provisionally identified with transferrin.
(3) Speaking about the player, who scored crucial goals for England during qualification for the 2014 World Cup, Hodgson said: “Andros was unlucky to lose his place in the squad when he wasn’t getting a regular game and he’s gone to Newcastle, got a regular game, and done very well there.” Expressing his delight in being selected, Townsend tweeted: “Huge honour to be named in provisional England squad for the euros ... Will give my all over next few weeks to try to make final squad!” Hodgson also declared himself pleased to include Jordan Henderson, who returned to action for Liverpool in Sunday’s 1-1 draw with West Bromwich Albion having been out since early April with damaged knee ligaments.
(4) It is a deal that the Irish government, alongside the Garda Siochana and the RUC, believe could have yielded millions of dollars for the Provisionals.
(5) Porcine strains provisionally named taxon 15 seem to constitute a separate group within the family Pasteurellaceae Pohl 1981, underlining the distinct degree of specificity members of this family show for host species.
(6) It’s a damp squib, a bit of a nothing result,” a leading energy analyst said of a report that is widely expected to endorse provisional findings released in March , and recommend price controls on prepayment meters and setting up a customer database to help rival suppliers target customers stuck on expensive default tariffs.
(7) The contents of nucleoids disperse and collapse into 2 dimensions on the water surface as discrete particles (spreads), which are provisionally equated with metaphase chromosomes.
(8) Twenty-five out of 116 reinvestigated children again showed an elevated value, as based on likewise provisional, age-dependent reference values.
(9) It results in extravasation of fibrinogen that clots to form fibrin, which serves as a provisional matrix and promotes angiogenesis and scar formation.
(10) Nadine adds: According to provisional results from the Federal Statistical Office today, the number of Greeks that immigrated jumped by 78%.
(11) To hear the former chief of staff of the Provisional IRA being depicted as a man whose job as Northern Ireland's deputy first minister is "to administer the Queen of England's writ in Ireland" is, to say the least, ironic.
(12) Alkaline phosphatase (Akp-1) was linked to the locus that encodes the C6 component of complement and this association provisionally defines a new linkage group (LG XI) in the rat.
(13) Fabrication of a provisional restoration to fit the existing clasp assembly requires special consideration.
(14) In all cases, however, the guidelines are provisional and are offered here mainly for purposes of discussion and to encourage similar efforts at policymaking by those who become involved with these forms of testing.
(15) We look forward to many more years of working with Maria.” Sharapova, who has been provisionally banned while the International tennis Federation decides her fate, has thanked her fans for their support and vowed to return to the game.
(16) The authors have gained minimum blood losses when suturing with provisional catgut ligature through the urinary bladder bottom between interureteral fold and internal urethral orifice yet before dessection of adenoma surgical capsule and tumor enucleation.
(17) It is hard to think of a better provisional epitaph than that supplied in the midst of his later troubles by Martin Palouš, one of the first signatories of Charter 77: "Havel was the man who was able to stage this miracle play.
(18) A technique has been described whereby a heat-processed provisional splint was fabricated with the factors of esthetics and long-term serviceability being of prime importance.
(19) As special devices for patients with burns still do not exist provisional solutions had to be developed.
(20) A provisional diagnosis of gastric trichobezoar was made.