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Mar"ry (?), v. t. [imp. & p.
p. Married (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Marrying.] [OE. marien, F. marier, L.
maritare, fr. maritus husband, fr. mas,
maris, a male. See Male, and cf. Maritral.]
1. To unite in wedlock or matrimony; to perform
the ceremony of joining, as a man and a woman, for life; to
constitute (a man and a woman) husband and wife according to the laws
or customs of the place.

Tell him that he shall marry the couple
himself.

2. To join according to law, (a man) to a
woman as his wife, or (a woman) to a man as her husband. See the Note
to def. 4.

A woman who had been married to her twenty-
fifth husband, and being now a widow, was prohibited to
marry.

3. To dispose of in wedlock; to give away as
wife.

Mæcenas took the liberty to tell him [Augustus]
that he must either marry his daughter [Julia] to Agrippa, or
take away his life.


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