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a pledge + l[=a]c a gift, an offering. See {Wed}, n., and cf. {Lake}, v. i., {Knowledge}.] [1913 Webster] 1. The ceremony, or the state, of marriage; matrimony. ``That blissful yoke . . . that men clepeth [call] spousal, or wedlock. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] For what is wedlock forced but a hell,
An age of discord or continual strife? --Shak.
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2. A wife; a married woman. Obs. --B. Jonson.
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Syn: See Marriage.
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Wedlock Wed"lock, v. t.
To marry; to unite in marriage; to wed. [R.] ``Man thus
wedlocked. --Milton.
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Source: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

