- Give in betrothal - Stand up for - Support (cause) - Take in marriage - To betroth; to promise in marriage; to give as spouse. - To take as spouse; to take to wife; to marry. - To take to one's self with a view to maintain; to make
one's own; to take up the cause of; to adopt; to embrace.
- Parent - Patriarch - One who has begotten a child, whether son or daughter; a
generator; a male parent. - A male ancestor more remote than a parent; a progenitor;
especially, a first ancestor; a founder of a race or family; -- in the
plural, fathers, ancestors. - One who performs the offices of a parent by maintenance,
affetionate care, counsel, or protection. - A respectful mode of address to an old man. - A senator of ancient Rome.
- A stop; an obstruction or bar to one's alleging or
denying a fact contrary to his own previous action, allegation, or
denial; an admission, by words or conduct, which induces another to
purchase rights, against which the party making such admission can not
take a position inconsistent with the admission. - The agency by which the law excludes evidence to dispute
certain admissions, which the policy of the law treats as indisputable.