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Wed   /wɛd/   Listen
verb
Wed  v. t.  (past wedded; past part. wedded or wed; pres. part. wedding)  
1.
To take for husband or for wife by a formal ceremony; to marry; to espouse. "With this ring I thee wed." "I saw thee first, and wedded thee."
2.
To join in marriage; to give in wedlock. "And Adam, wedded to another Eve, Shall live with her."
3.
Fig.: To unite as if by the affections or the bond of marriage; to attach firmly or indissolubly. "Thou art wedded to calamity." "Men are wedded to their lusts." "(Flowers) are wedded thus, like beauty to old age."
4.
To take to one's self and support; to espouse. (Obs.) "They positively and concernedly wedded his cause."



Wed  v. i.  To contact matrimony; to marry. "When I shall wed."



noun
Wed  n.  A pledge; a pawn. (Obs.) "Let him be ware, his neck lieth to wed (i. e., for a security)."






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"Wed" Quotes from Famous Books



... but a tiny dot to bestow at her marriage. She saw her son's infatuation for the American girl and gave her consent to the marriage, without which, as is the law in France, they could not have been wed. Sally's alliance gave her the entree into the most exclusive homes of the Faubourg St. Germain but she was not a whit impressed by it. She took her honors so simply and naturally that she won the hearts of ...
— Molly Brown's Orchard Home • Nell Speed

... her poor dear Willun, when he went and died on her, raging that he was the first to go, Joan, her four brothers, Judith, her husband and all her sons, Susan, her husband too, while Susan's daughter, Elizabeth, to use granddaddy's words, wed her second, having killed ...
— Ulysses • James Joyce

... dismissed Isis; who, over paths that were strewn with lilies, had himself, in the attributes of Bacchus, drawn by tigers; by lions as Mother of the Gods; again, by naked women, as Heliogabalus on his way to wed a vestal, and procure for the empire a child that should be ...
— Imperial Purple • Edgar Saltus

... upon the land with her blossom and her singing-birds, it was told the sons of Usna that the King of Alba had sworn to burn to the ground every stone that stood on the land that had been their father's, and to slay Nathos, and wed the ...
— Celtic Tales - Told to the Children • Louey Chisholm

... handmaid of Use; and as the grace of the swan and the horse results from a conformation whose rationale is movement, so the pillar that supports the roof, and the arch that spans the current, by their serviceable fitness, wed grace of form to wise utility. The laws of architecture illustrate this principle copiously; but in no single and familiar product of human skill is it more striking than in bridges; if lightness, symmetry, elegance, proportion charm the ideal sense, not ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 12, No. 74, December, 1863 • Various


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