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(), n.[AS. wedlc a pledge, be trothal; wedd a pledge + lc a gift, an offering. See Wed, n., and cf. Lake, v. i., Knowledge.] 1. The ceremony, or the state, of marriage; matrimony. "That blissful yoke . . . that men clepeth [call] spousal, or wedlock." Chaucer. For what is wedlock forced but a hell, An age of discord or continual strife? Shak. 2. A wife; a married woman. [Obs.] B. Jonson. Syn. -- See Marriage. Wed"lock v. t.To marry; to unite in marriage; to wed. [R.] "Man thus wedlocked." Milton. スポンサード リンク
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