connubiate

present singular third person connubiates · participle present connubiating · participle past connubiated · past connubiated

1. rareslangTo live together as man and wife; to marry; (loosely), to have relations.

   I looked at her and hoped we might connubiate but she ignored me.

   2013, Philipp Meyer, The Son, Simon & Schuster, published 2014, page 73

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   Let it be Rome, Milan, Naples, Florence, Turin, Venice, or Switzerland, and ‘egad!’ (as Bayes saith,) I will connubiate and join you; and we will write a new ‘Inferno’ in our Paradise.

   1814, Lord Byron, letter, 9 April

   So much for the desire of these interesting creatures to—we don't say marry, because the word is not genteel, and is rather discountenanced at the college—but to connubiate.

   1861, John Heiton, The Castes of Edinburgh, page 119