Crossword clues for matrimony
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Matrimony \Mat"ri*mo*ny\, n. [OE. matrimoine, through Old French, fr. L. matrimonium, fr. mater mother. See Mother.]
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The union of man and woman as husband and wife; the nuptial state; marriage; wedlock.
If either of you know any impediment, why ye may not be lawfully joined together in matrimony, ye do now confess it.
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A kind of game at cards played by several persons.
Matrimony vine (Bot.), a climbing thorny vine ( Lycium barbarum) of the Potato family.
--Gray.Syn: Marriage; wedlock. See Marriage.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1300, from Old French matremoine "matrimony, marriage" and directly from Latin matrimonium "wedlock, marriage," from matrem (nominative mater) "mother" (see mother (n.1)) + -monium, suffix signifying "action, state, condition."
Wiktionary
n. 1 marriage; the state of being married. 2 The ceremony of marriage. 3 A particular solitaire card game using two decks of cards.
WordNet
n. the state of being a married couple voluntarily joined for life (or until divorce); "a long and happy marriage"; "God bless this union" [syn: marriage, union, spousal relationship, wedlock]
the ceremony or sacrament of marriage
Wikipedia
Matrimony may refer to:
- Marriage, union of individuals that creates kinship.
- Matrimony (solitaire), a solitaire card game.
- Matrimony (card game), a multi-player card game.
- The Matrimony, a 2007 Chinese horror film starring Fan Bingbing
- "The Matrimony" (song) a 2015 song by Wale with Usher
- Matrimony Creek, a stream in North Carolina and Virginia
Matrimony is a solitaire card game: which uses two decks of 52 playing cards each. It is a difficult game which depends mostly on luck and is sometimes mechanical. It is also one of the many games where there are no clear rules but with two versions. The one described below is laid out by Peter Arnold in his book Card Games for One (ISBN 0-600-60727-5).
One Q and one J are taken out of the deck to form the foundations. As they become available during the deal, the two J and the four black 10s (two 10♠ and two 10♣) are placed beside the two cards already present also form the foundations. After that, sixteen cards are dealt into two rows of eight cards each, forming the bases for the sixteen tableau piles. The foundations and the tableau may look like this:
(10♠)
(10♠)
(10♣)
(10♣)
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
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16
The Q is built up to Jack, and all other foundations are built down, with the Jacks up to Queens and the Tens up to Jacks, all by suit and all round-the-corner, i.e. putting a king over an ace and vice versa. The cards to be used to build on these eight foundations are those put on the piles. The top card of each pile is available for play.
Once no more moves are possible, a new batch of 16 cards are dealt from the stock, one on each pile, filling any gaps in the process. Therefore, an empty pile is not filled until the next deal. In between deals, cards are moved onto the foundations. The dealing of new batches of cards and moving cards to the foundations continue until the stock runs out. From that point, a new special process of dealing begins.
Using the diagram above as a guideline, the player picks up the cards from pile 16 and deals them from left to right, starting from the gap it leaves behind and goes from pile 16 to pile 1 if necessary. Then the cards from pile 15 are picked up and deal a card to piles 15, 16, 1, and so on until they run out. Then the cards on pile 14 are done the same. This continues until all cards from pile 1 are dealt. The player must make a point to build appropriate cards to the foundations each time after a pile is dealt. Also, a pile with only one card is left untouched because once it is picked up, it is placed back there anyway.
The game is won when all cards are built into the foundations.
In both Pretty Good Solitaire and BVS Solitaire's version of the game, the jacks and the queens of each suit are removed; the jacks are built down to queens and queens up to jacks, all by suit, and all round-the-corner. Game play is the same as above, but the last batch will consist only of eight cards.
Furthermore, while the words matrimony and marriage are synonymous with each other, this game should not be confused with another solitaire game Royal Marriage.
Usage examples of "matrimony".
Patient as a fox on a long scent in autumn, he would have kept himself lean and circumspect, until, through the help of lugubrious prayer and lantern visage, he could have beguiled into matrimony some one feminine member of the flock--not always fair--whose worldly goods would have sufficed in full atonement for all those circumspect, self-imposed restraints, which we find asually so well rewarded.
But Bernard made the most of it, and took comfort in the thought that his friend had recovered his spirits and his appetite for matrimony.
Therefore when people joined in matrimony have for some sin been deprived of Divine help, God allows them to be bewitched chiefly in their procreant functions.
First Ryan had given him a sermonette on the wonderful state of matrimony, and then had the gall to say he was falling in love!
The lady had been bred in the country, was unacquainted with the world, and of a very sanguine disposition, which her short trial of matrimony had not served to cool.
Wanting to reward many nobles and knights who had been released from their imprisonment, he gave them over in matrimony to maidens of high station, all of them servants of the empress and the princess, and he also gave them large estates so they could live out their lives honorably.
She would not share with this disapproving Manxman her shattered dream of matrimony, or her contradictory, incompatible longings.
Matrimony, which are intended for the perfection of the multitude: while Matrimony is placed after order, because it has less participation in the nature of the spiritual life, to which the sacraments are ordained.
On the other hand, in those sacraments whose effect corresponds to that of some human act, the sensible human act itself takes the place of matter, as in the case of Penance and Matrimony, even as in bodily medicines, some are applied externally, such as plasters and drugs, while others are acts of the person who seeks to be cured, such as certain exercises.
Matrimony, therefore, having removed all such motives, he grew weary of this condescension, and began to treat the opinions of his wife with that haughtiness and insolence, which none but those who deserve some contempt themselves can bestow, and those only who deserve no contempt can bear.
For that reason he stayed very quiet now and put on the masks of knowledge, acculturation, matrimony.
As Emilie was on the eve of her wedding, she no doubt put down my neglect of her to my respect for the sacrament of matrimony.
Borneheld had evaded the ties of matrimony for the past ten years or so, preferring to keep a succession of blowzy mistresses either at Sigholt or Gorkenfort when he was in the north, or in the palace in Carlon when he was at court.
The perfect bachelor, the chaffer at Cupid, the mocker at matrimony, the detester of domesticity!
As for women that do not think they own safety worth their though, that, impatient of their perfect state, resolve, as they call it, to take the first good Christian that comes, that run into matrimony as a horse rushes into the battle, I can say nothing to them but this, that they are a sort of ladies that are to be prayed for among the rest of distempered people, and to me they look like people that venture their whole estates in a lottery where there is a hundred thousand blanks to one prize.