(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) To dispose of in wedlock; to give away as wife.
(v. t.) To take for husband or wife. See the Note below.
(v. t.) Figuratively, to unite in the closest and most endearing relation.
(v. i.) To enter into the conjugal or connubial state; to take a husband or a wife.
(interj.) Indeed ! in truth ! -- a term of asseveration said to have been derived from the practice of swearing by the Virgin Mary.
Example Sentences:
(1) I'm married to an Irish woman, and she remembers in the atmosphere stirred up in the 1970s people spitting on her.
(2) But when they decided to get married, "finding the clothes became my project," says Melanie.
(3) Considerate touches includes the free use of cruiser bicycles (the best method of tackling the Palm Springs main drag), home-baked cookies … and if you'd like to get married, ask the manager: he's a minister.
(4) This paper presents findings from a survey on knowledge of and attitudes and practices towards AIDS among currently married Zimbabwean men conducted between April and June 1988.
(5) However the imagery is more complex, because scholars believe it also relates to another cherished pre-Raphaelite Arthurian legend, Sir Degrevaunt who married his mortal enemy's daughter.
(6) Bereaved individuals were significantly more likely to report heightened dysphoria, dissatisfaction, and somatic disturbances typical of depression, even when variations in age, sex, number of years married, and educational and occupational status were taken into account.
(7) Unmarried women had a higher risk of death than married women.
(8) He has also been a vocal opponent of gay marriage, appearing on the Today programme in the run-up to the same-sex marriage bill to warn that it would "cause confusion" – and asking in a Spectator column, after it was passed, "if the law will eventually be changed to allow one to marry one's dog".
(9) The two of them broke up with their partners and in 1974 they married.
(10) Of the 275 women with Crohn's disease 224 had been married at some time compared with 208 controls.
(11) The unmarried men won 8-1, showing that being married doesn't mean you can score whenever you like.
(12) In the multivariate logistic analysis the most informative clinical, social, and psychosocial predictors were, in rank order: many admissions to mental hospitals, death or divorce of parent in childhood, heavy smoking, short duration of the mental disorder diagnosed as affective, not married, never economically active, and early onset of the affective disorder.
(13) Participants were younger, more likely to be male, less likely to be currently married, and more likely to have had a white-collar job and some postsecondary education than were nonparticipants.
(14) The author presents in this article just a small part of the results obtained in national survey of 1.902 married women, carried out in 1972, on "fertility and family planning in Spain".
(15) Best friends since school, they sound like an old married couple, finishing each other's sentences, constantly referring to the other by name and making each other laugh; deep sonorous, belly laughs.
(16) The energey expenditure during coitus for long-married couples is equivalent to that of climbing stairs, and consequently the risk of heart attack is low.
(17) According to Swedish law, couples who are planning to marry are obliged to publish their address.
(18) To elucidate the relationship between the presence of anti-Tax antibody and the transmission of the viral infection, annual consecutive serum samples from married couples serologically discordant or concordant for HTLV-I were examined.
(19) Peripheral blood lymphocytes (PBL) obtained from married, adult males classified either as "copers" or as "non-copers" were tested for their natural killer (NK) activity and for the expression of the Leu 7 and Leu 11 NK-associated antigens.
(20) And if you think simply living together rather than marrying will help to keep you healthy, it is worth bearing in mind that research has found that cohabiting couples who separate are likely to be similarly affected .
Polygamize
Definition:
(v. i.) To practice polygamy; to marry several wives.
Example Sentences:
(1) The mode of inheritance of the abnormalities in this family as in other reported cases is thought to be an autosomal dominant type which is unaffected by the polygamous situation.
(2) There was little association with sociodemographic variables, except that prevalence was high in divorced, widowed and separated women, polygamously married women and single parents.
(3) The present study was a pilot effort to determine whether Kuwaiti wives of polygamous marriages were disproportionately represented in the inpatient psychiatric as opposed to the general population.
(4) Although sociologists and anthropologists, as well as common sense, have suggested that a polygamous marriage may have a negative effect on the wives involved, an extensive literature search failed to uncover any psychiatric research that attempts to examine this situation or objectively delineates possible psychiatric sequelae.
(5) Those few that are real men are unfaithful and polygamous, but most men are unsatisfactory – rude to their wives, unable to give pleasure, bullying, selfish, indifferent to their children, eager to marry a younger secretary.
(6) A number of cases corresponding to polygamous and monogamous matings of individuals are considered.
(7) The following variables had zero-order associations with contraceptive usage: marriage type (monogamous or polygamous), area of residence, religion, and woman's occupation.
(8) Multiple logistic regression modelling of data from both approaches, including each of these risk factors and sex, age, village and season, suggested father's smoking, carriage on the mother's back while cooking and being part of a polygamous family increase risk of ALRI, the latter two for girls only.
(9) In the present work we evaluated the degree of sexual dimorphism in two cell groups of the medial preoptic-anterior hypothalamus (MPOA-AH) in monogamous and polygamous voles.
(10) Methods are described for the maximum likelihood estimation of mating preferences in models of assortative mating for monogamous and polygamous organisms.
(11) A constellation of significant stressful life situations was found among the diabetics such as early loss of father, being first borns, born of polygamous parents, being themselves polygamous, being the children of the first wives, and producing many children without having the adequate professions to yield the necessary financial resources to train them.
(12) Although a polygamous society, three-fourths of married men had only one wife.
(13) I am not saying there isn’t a problem with legally invalid marriages or polygamous marriages – there is.
(14) Only in the polygamous species do males have larger hippocampi relative to the entire brain than do females.
(15) The load may be greatly reduced for mildly deleterious mutations if female choice (for males with few or no mutations) is present in a polygamous species.
(16) Males gave more evidence of competitiveness and tended to mate polygamously.
(17) The pied flycatcher is a polygamous and polyterritorial bird species.
(18) Farage added: “We even, a few years ago, had some quite clear examples where the immigration services were actually allowing women to come into Britain from Pakistan and elsewhere to join polygamous marriages – something that is against our law.
(19) 61.5% of the mothers lived in monogamous marriages, with 37.5% in polygamous marriages.
(20) A stable sexual relationship or consistent use of condoms in polygamous sexual practices is probably the most meaningful means of controlling the sexual transmission of HPV.