Marry

[imp. & p. p. MARRIED; p. pr. & vb. n. MARRYING.] [Fr. marier, Pr. & Sp. maridar, It. & Lat. maritare, from Lat. maritus, husband, from mas, maris, a male.] 1. To unite in wedlock or matrimony; to join for life, as a man and woman; to constitute man and wife according to the laws or customs of a nation. Tell him he shall marry the couple himself. Gray. 2. To dispose of in wedlock; to give away as wife. Mæcenas told Augustus he must either marry his daughter Julia to Agrippa, or take away his life. Bacon. 3. To take for husband or wife. We say, a man marries a woman; or, a woman marries a man. Both of these uses are equally well authorized. 4. Hence, figuratively, to unite in the closest connection. Turn, O backsliding children, saith the Lord: for I am married unto you. Jer. iii. 14.

v. i. To enter into the conjugal or connubial state; to unite as husband and wife; to take a husband or a wife. I will, therefore, that the younger women marry. 1 Tim. v. 14.