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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



... coward, Coward and shameless were he, who so finding a glorious jewel Cast on the wayside by fools, would not win it and keep it and wear it, Even as I will thee; for I swear by the head of my father, Bearing thee over the sea-wave, to wed thee in Argos the fruitful, Beautiful, meed of my toil no less than this head which I carry, Hidden here fearful—Oh speak!' But the maid, still dumb with amazement, Watered her bosom with weeping, and longed for her home and her mother. ...
— Andromeda and Other Poems • Charles Kingsley

... with all roialnesse to entreate her, she beyng a harlotte: the folie of the Grecians and the Troians, is so on euery side so greate, that it can not be thought, soche a warre truely chronicled. If violence and power, had taken Helena from her housebande, and not her [Sidenote: Helena follo- wed Paris.] owne will and luste, caught with the adulterous loue of Pa- ris, beyng a straunger. If her moderacion of life had been so rare, as that the like facte for her chastitie, had not been in a- ny age or common wealthe, her vertues would haue giuen occasion: The Princes ...
— A booke called the Foundacion of Rhetorike • Richard Rainolde

... all those who are captives of a crown, Nillywill learned that she must wed with one of her own rank who was a stranger to her save for his name and his renown as the lord of a neighbouring country; there was no help for her, since she was a princess, but she must wed according to the claims of her station. When she heard of it, she went at nightfall to her pansies, all ...
— The Blue Moon • Laurence Housman

... be sent to a nunnery, or perhaps you, Seignor Commandant, who are a bachelor, would wish to wed the fat widow." ...
— Charley Laurel - A Story of Adventure by Sea and Land • W. H. G. Kingston

... wedding said prayers for her friend. They buried Marie Beaujeu in her bridesmaid white, and Hagadorn was before the altar with her, as he had intended from the first! Then at midnight the lovers who were to wed whispered their vows in the gloom of the cold church, and walked together through the snow to lay their bridal wreaths upon ...
— The Shape of Fear • Elia W. Peattie


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