(a.) Of or pertaining to marriage; done or used at a wedding; as, nuptial rites and ceremonies.
(n.) Marriage; wedding; nuptial ceremony; -- now only in the plural.
Example Sentences:
(1) The nuptials drew crowds of fans eager to witness the glitzy event, but they were kept far away from the heavily walled 16th-century fortress, which offers stunning views of Florence and surrounding Tuscan hills.
(2) Before the family planning program was introduced to rural Anhui (1972), the changing nuptiality pattern was indirectly affected by the planned social changes; after 1972, the substantial increase in age at 1st marriage was mainly due to the family planning program.
(3) Same-sex nuptials have no more of a guarantee of longevity and contentment than their heterosexual counterparts, but in a tolerant, egalitarian society, every citizen, whether gay or straight, has a right to the chance of a marital happy every after if they so choose.
(4) High nuptiality and virtually no contraceptive use in Nepal produce age-specific fertility rates very close to a natural fertility pattern.
(5) One quarter of unplanned ex-nuptial pregnancies were the result of contraceptive failure and three-quarters were the result of contraceptive non-usage.
(6) Next time the Murdochs gather en masse, they could raise a glass not just to Rupert’s impending nuptials but one of the most successful PR strategies in living memory.
(7) 4.40pm BST "Don't worry, it's not all stateside ballet and south-coast nuptials," chirps Josh.
(8) Overall, mothers of ex-nuptial children had a fairly sophisticated appreciation of contraceptive methods.
(9) One mechanism through which the local opportunity structure influenced nuptiality was occupational choice.
(10) Having elicited such a speedy proposal from Henry Tilney, Austen reassures us by telling us that he and Catherine in fact marry "within a twelvemonth" of their first meeting – not much less than the year allowed Elizabeth Bennet and Mr Darcy between their first encounter and their nuptials.
(11) We show that this is primarily the result of declining nuptiality (and rising marital dissolution) and secondarily the result of decreases in marital fertility.
(12) Data from the 1970 National Fertility Study are used to assess the extent and determinants of post-nuptial education among women in the United States.
(13) This paper examines the changing nuptiality pattern of rural China, particularly rural Anhui, in relation to the planned social changes since 1949 and their effect on fertility.
(14) A new Father of the Bride movie will see Steve Martin's curmudgeonly dad planning the upcoming nuptials of his gay son, according to reports on nikkifinke.com .
(15) More recently, the centrally controlled social structure is loosening, due to the economic reform and the nuptiality pattern seems to join the 1972 trend, suggesting that the dramatic change of nuptiality pattern during the early 1970s to early 1980s was a temporary one.
(16) In particular, it is seen that the total number of marriages in a two-sex population neither is nor should be bounded by the total numbers of marriages in the associated male and female one-sex nuptiality-mortality tables.
(17) Nuptiality and contraceptive status are shown through charts and graphs on current marital status, differentials in age at first marriage, and marital and contraceptive status.
(18) After Kim Jong-un selected Ri, his aunt Kim Kyong-hui recommended her to his late father, leader Kim Jong-il , who approved the nuptials.
(19) Our analysis shows that nuptiality levels in nineteenth century English and Welsh districts were responsive to occupational variation and that both direct and indirect effects were significant.
(20) Among the notables sighted arriving in Florence ahead of the nuptials were Steve McQueen, director of Oscar-winner 12 Years a Slave; Lala Anthony, wife of NY Knicks basketball star Carmelo Anthony; Jaden Smith, the teenage son of Will and Jada Smith; and Joe Francis of Girls Gone Wild fame.
Postnuptial
Definition:
(a.) Being or happening after marriage; as, a postnuptial settlement on a wife.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the long-day group, prolactin levels rose abruptly over the first 20 days, as the testes developed, and remained high well into postnuptial moult after the gonads had regressed.
(2) The testes of most male male of group 3 developed to full size immediately after the termination of the first postnuptial moult; subsequently they remained active for at least 7 months.
(3) Furthermore, they carried out a postnuptial molt, indicating that they have been able to terminate photorefractoriness under these LD schedules.
(4) Subsequently they carried out a complete postnuptial moult.
(5) The structure of the Sertoli cell and its physical relationship with the germ cells was studied in laboratory maintained skinks, Eumeces laticeps (Schneider) in January, and September, corresponding to the periods of prenuptial and postnuptial spermatogenesis respectively.
(6) However, ovariectomy performed in November suppressed the maximum levels of prolactin produced by long-day stimulation and inhibited or disturbed postnuptial molt.
(7) In captive Harris' sparrows (Zonotrichia querula), plasma and blood volume increased significantly during stages 2 and 3 of postnuptial molt, when extensive feather replacement was taking place in the wings, tail and body tracts.
(8) In the following spring, all male male went through a full cycle of testicular size which was followed by a second postnuptial moult.
(9) During eclipse, the period (June and July) immediately following postnuptial molt, the production of short chain acyl groups is severely curtailed and longer chain acyl groups become the dominant components; after this period the composition reverts.
(10) The observed disappearance of the short chain waxes during the postnuptial period is similar to that in males.
(11) During the heavy postnuptial molt when the birds were fasting, in both species and sexes, marked but separate peaks in plasma T4 and T3 levels occurred concurrently with the initial growth of the new feathers, and with the subsequent shedding of the old plumage, respectively.
(12) In 6 male male of groups 1 and 2, a small increase of testicular size was observed subsequent to the termination of the first postnuptial moult.
(13) It is suggested that castration does not interfere with long-day-induced vernal fat deposition via reduced secretion of prolactin in the absence of ovarian hormones or via supernormal secretion of LH, but that vernal fat deposition, prolactin secretion, and postnuptial molt require the presence of ovarian hormones prior to photostimulation.
(14) In adults, recrudescence occurred in many individuals during the prenuptial and postnuptial moults, and also in most if not all individuals, of both sexes, for a brief period during a breeding session.
(15) Thus, green turtles do not exhibit the "postnuptial" type of testis cycle typical of many temperate-zone turtles, and the levels of plasma androgen may be important for initiating and maintaining sex behavior, although they are not tightly linked during the mating season.