Meaning of connubiate | Babel Free

Definitions

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

rare, slang

Examples

“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.”

“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.”

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

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