- State of being married - the state of being married - Wedlock - The union of man and woman as husband and wife; the
nuptial state; marriage; wedlock. - A kind of game at cards played by several persons.
- Marriage - State of being married - The ceremony, or the state, of marriage; matrimony. - A wife; a married woman. - To marry; to unite in marriage; to wed.
- The cohabiting of a man and a woman who are not
legally married; the state of being a concubine. - A plea, in which it is alleged that the woman suing
for dower was not lawfully married to the man in whose lands she seeks
to be endowed, but that she was his concubine.
- Formal union - Nuptial - Nuptial rites - Wedlock - The act of marrying, or the state of being married;
legal union of a man and a woman for life, as husband and wife;
wedlock; matrimony. - The marriage vow or contract. - A feast made on the occasion of a marriage.