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Solemnize v. t. (past & past part. solemnized; pres. part. solemnizing)

To perform with solemn or ritual ceremonies, or according to legal forms. "Baptism to be administered in one place, and marriage solemnized in another."

To dignify or honor by ceremonies; to celebrate. "Their choice nobility and flowers... Met from all parts to solemnize this feast."

To make grave, serious, and reverential. "Wordsworth was solemnizzed and elevated by this his first look on Yarrow." "Every Israelite... arose, solemnized his face, looked towards Jerusalem... and prayed."

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"Solemnize" Quotes from Famous Books

... Saviour there is born more old than years, Amidst heaven's rolling heights this earth who stayed. In a poor cottage inned, a virgin maid, A weakling did him bear, who all upbears; There is he poorly swaddled, in manger laid, To whom too narrow swaddlings are our spheres: Run, shepherds, run, and solemnize his birth. This is that night—no, day, grown great with bliss, In which the power of Satan broken is: In heaven be glory, peace unto the earth! Thus singing, through the air the angels swarm, And cope of stars ...

— The Home Book of Verse, Vol. 1 (of 4) • Various

... and his friends were meditating an attack upon the Puritan theocracy in New England. It had even been suggested, in the council for the colonies, that the Church of England should be established in Massachusetts, and that none but duly ordained Episcopal clergymen should be allowed to solemnize marriages. Such alarming suggestions began to impress the various Puritan churches with the importance of uniting their forces against the common enemy; and accordingly in 1682 the quarrel between the ...

— The Beginnings of New England - Or the Puritan Theocracy in its Relations to Civil and Religious Liberty • John Fiske

... which the ground is strown; the fluttering of unseen birds brushing through the foliage, or the moaning of the wind sweeping over the topmost boughs,—these all tend to excite the imagination and solemnize the mind. But the stillness of a forest is more startling and awe-inspiring than its sounds. Its silence is so deep as itself to become audible to the inner soul. It is not surprising that wooded countries have been the fruitful fountains ...

— Salem Witchcraft, Volumes I and II • Charles Upham

... to be living without the ceremony of marriage, until they have a family and no odium whatever is attached to such a connexion. They are looked upon as man and wife, though they do not live together; and they rarely fail to solemnize their union when they have accumulated sufficient property to procure the requisite articles ...

— The Former Philippines thru Foreign Eyes • Fedor Jagor; Tomas de Comyn; Chas. Wilkes; Rudolf Virchow.

... and princes of brave Britany, Since that our noble father is entombed, As best beseemed so brave a prince as he, If so you please, this day my love and I, Within the temple of Concordia, Will solemnize our royal marriage. ...

— 2. Mucedorus • William Shakespeare [Apocrypha]

Words linked to "Solemnize" : keep, solemnization, change, marry, observe, alter, tie, splice