marry

Etymology 1

From Middle English marien, from Anglo-Norman marïer, from Latin marītāre (“to wed”), from marītus (“husband, suitor”), from mās (“man, male”), of uncertain origin. Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *méryos (“young man”), same source as Sanskrit मर्य (márya, “suitor, young man”). Compare its feminine derivatives: Welsh morwyn (“girl”), merch (“daughter”), Crimean Gothic marzus (“wedding”), Ancient Greek μεῖραξ (meîrax, “boy; girl”), Lithuanian martì (“bride”), Avestan 𐬨𐬀𐬌𐬭𐬌𐬌𐬀 (maⁱriia, “yeoman”).) Displaced native Old English hīwian.

verb

1. (intransitive) To enter into the conjugal or connubial state; to take a husband or a wife.
   Neither of her daughters showed any desire to marry.
   Evelyn, in his "Diary," under date 1641, says that at Haerlem "they showed us a cottage where, they told us, dwelt a woman who had been married to her twenty-fifth husband, and, being now a widow, was prohibited to marry in future; […] " 1641, Evelyn, Diary, quoted in 1869 by Edward J. Wood in The Wedding Day in All Ages and Countries, volume 2, page 241
   But Esau, being now forty years of age, took a false step by marrying not only without his parents consent; but with two wives, daughters of the Hittites. 1755, The Holy Bible, both Old and New Testament, Digested, Illustrated, and Explained, second edition, page 59
   If and when Suzy does marry, it will be an open marriage because she's a believer in the "totality" of freedom. March 17 1975, Marian Christy, “Suzy Chaffee, A Liberated Beauty”, in The Lebanon Daily News
   the rich relationed hometown queen marries into what she needs 1975 July, Janis Ian (lyrics and music), “At Seventeen”
2. (intransitive) To enter into marriage with one another.
   Jack and Jenny married soon after they met.
3. (transitive) To take as husband or wife.
   In some cultures, it is acceptable for an uncle to marry his niece.
4. (transitive) To arrange for the marriage of; to give away as wife or husband.
   He was eager to marry his daughter to a nobleman.
5. (transitive) To unite in wedlock or matrimony; to perform the ceremony of joining spouses; to bring about a marital union according to the laws or customs of a place.
   A justice of the peace will marry Jones and Smith.
   His daughter was married some five years ago to a tailor's apprentice.
   This is the Prieſt all ſhaven and ſhorn, that married the man all tattered and torn[.] 1784, The House that Jack Built, page 8
6. (intransitive, figurative, of inanimate or abstract things) To join or connect. See also marry up.
   There’s a big gap here. These two parts don’t marry properly.
   I can’t connect it, because the plug doesn’t marry with the socket.
   However, it now seems likely that means can be found to marry the W.R. and B.R. standard A.T.C. apparatus. 1959 September, “The Re-appraisal of the B.R. Modernisation Plan”, in Trains Illustrated, page 408
7. (transitive, figurative) To unite; to join together into a close union.
   The attempt to marry medieval plainsong with speed metal produced interesting results.
   For Faulkner, these years marry professional triumphs and personal disappointments: the Nobel Prize for Literature and an increasingly unlifting depression. 2006, Lisa C. Hickman, William Faulkner and Joan Williams: The Romance of Two Writers
8. (nautical) To place (two ropes) alongside each other so that they may be grasped and hauled on at the same time.
9. (nautical) To join (two ropes) end to end so that both will pass through a block.

Etymology 2

From Middle English Marie, referring to Mary, the Virgin Mary. Mid-14th century.

intj

1. (obsolete) A term of asseveration: indeed!, in truth!