To enter into the conjugal or connubial state; to take a husband or a wife.
Neither of her daughters showed any desire to marry.
To enter into marriage with one another.
Jack and Jenny married soon after they met.
To take as husband or wife.
In some cultures, it is acceptable for an uncle to marry his niece.
A term of asseveration: indeed!, in truth!
You that be of the court, & eſpecially ye ſworn chaplains beware of a leſſon that a great man taught me at my firſt coming to the court he told me for a good will, he thoughte it wel. He ſayd vnto me. You muſt beware how ſo euer ye do that ye cõtrary not the king, let him haue his ſaiyngs, folow him, go with him. Mary out vpon this counſel, ſhal I ſay, as he ſayes?
From Middle English marien, from Anglo-Norman marïer, from Latin marītāre (“to wed”), from marītus (“husband, suitor”), from mās (“man, male”), of uncertain origin. Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *...
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