Marriage brokage. (a) The business of bringing about marriages. (b) The
payment made or demanded for the procurement of a marriage. -- Marriage
favors, knots of white ribbons, or bunches of white flowers, worn at
weddings. -- Marriage settlement (Law), a settlement of property in
view, and in consideration, of marriage.
Syn. -- Matrimony; wedlock; wedding; nuptials. -- Marriage, Matrimony,
Wedlock. Marriage is properly the act which unites the two parties, and
matrimony the state into which they enter. Marriage is, however, often
used for the state as well as the act. Wedlock is the old Anglo-Saxon
term for matrimony.
Mar`riage*a*bil"i*ty (?), n. The quality or state of being
marriageable.
Mar"riage*a*ble (?), a. Fit for, or capable of, marriage; of an age at
which marriage is allowable. -- Mar"riage*a*ble*ness, n.
Mar"ried (?), a. 1. Being in the state of matrimony; wedded; as, a
married man or woman.