wedded

4 definitions found

wedded - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Wedded \Wed"ded\, a.
     1. Joined in wedlock; married.
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              Let w?alth, let honor, wait the wedded dame. --Pope.
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     2. Of or pertaining to wedlock, or marriage. "Wedded love."
        --Milton.
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  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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wedded - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  wedded
      adj 1: having been taken in marriage [syn: wed, wedded]

wedded - 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