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verb

Wed v. t. (past wedded; past part. wedded or wed; pres. part. wedding)

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."

To join in marriage; to give in wedlock. "And Adam, wedded to another Eve, Shall live with her."

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."

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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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Wed" Quotes from Famous Books

... natural that that ill-fated pair of lovers should go through life, love, wed, and die singing. And why not? Are they not airy nothings, "born of romance, cradled in poetry, thinking other thoughts, and doing other deeds than ours?" As they live in poetry, so may they not with perfect ...

— In the Days of My Youth • Amelia Ann Blandford Edwards

... Vereker, what ill-fortune has sent him across my path? Already he has established himself in the affections of Lady Alicia, and if she consents to wed him my plans are foiled. Fortunately she does not know as yet that, by the will of her late Uncle Gregory, the ironmaster, two million pounds are settled upon the man who wins her hand. With two million pounds I could pay back my betting losses and prevent myself from being turned out ...

— If I May • A. A. Milne

... past," said the youth, shaking his head. "But an if he be still in the rogues' hands and living, I will get me on to his house in Cheapside, and arrange with his mother to find the needful sum, as befits me, I being his heir and about to wed his daughter. However, I shall do all that in me lies to get the poor old seignior out of the hands of the rogues. Saints ...

— The Armourer's Prentices • Charlotte M. Yonge

... of mine proposed Ada as my future bride. I like Ada and I gladly accepted the offer, and I mean to wed her about the middle of this year. Is this a working of the Law of Attraction? I want to make our married life happy and peaceful. I long for a wedded life of pure blessedness and love and joy without even a pinhead of bitterness ever finding lodgment in our household. How can I attain this state ...

— Happiness and Marriage • Elizabeth (Jones) Towne

... inclination to wed herself with the harsh and self-seeking King, who was growing old: he himself, when Philip shortly after his arrival in Castile was snatched away by an early death, formed the idea of marrying his widow Juana, though she was no longer in her right mind. He opened a negociation ...

— A History of England Principally in the Seventeenth Century, Volume I (of 6) • Leopold von Ranke

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