Wedded
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Wed \Wed\, v. t. [imp. {Wedded}; p. p. {Wedded} or {Wed}; p. pr.
& vb. n. {Wedding}.] [OE. wedden, AS. weddian to covenant,
promise, to wed, marry; akin to OFries. weddia to promise, D.
wedden to wager, to bet, G. wetten, Icel. ve[eth]ja, Dan.
vedde, Sw. v[aum]dja to appeal, Goth. gawadj[=o]n to betroth.
See {Wed}, n.]
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1. To take for husband or for wife by a formal ceremony; to
marry; to espouse.
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With this ring I thee wed. --Bk. of Com.
Prayer.
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I saw thee first, and wedded thee. --Milton.
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2. To join in marriage; to give in wedlock.
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And Adam, wedded to another Eve,
Shall live with her. --Milton.
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3. Fig.: To unite as if by the affections or the bond of
marriage; to attach firmly or indissolubly.
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Thou art wedded to calamity. --Shak.
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Men are wedded to their lusts. --Tillotson.
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[Flowers] are wedded thus, like beauty to old age.
--Cowper.
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4. To take to one's self and support; to espouse. [Obs.]
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They positively and concernedly wedded his cause.
--Clarendon.
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from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
76 Moby Thesaurus words for "wedded":
affiliate, affiliated, allied, assembled, associate, associated,
banded together, bound, bracketed, bridal, cabalistic, collateral,
collected, confederate, confederated, conjoined, conjugal,
conjugate, connected, connubial, conspiratorial, copulate,
corporate, correlated, coupled, enleagued, epithalamic, federate,
federated, gathered, hand-in-glove, hand-in-hand, husbandly,
hymeneal, implicated, in cahoots, in league, in partnership,
in with, incorporated, integrated, interlinked, interlocked,
interrelated, intimate, involved, joined, knotted, leagued, linked,
marital, married, matched, mated, matrimonial, merged, nuptial,
of that ilk, of that kind, one, paired, parallel, partnered,
partners with, related, spliced, spousal, teamed, tied, twinned,
undivided, united, unseparated, wed, wifely, yoked
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