Wedlock

Part of speech: noun (n.)

1. The ceremony, or the state, of marriage; matrimony. "That blissful yoke . . . that men clepeth [call] spousal, or wedlock." Chaucer. For what is wedlock forced but a hell, An age of discord or continual strife Shak.

2. A wife; a married woman. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

Synonyms: See Marriage.

Part of speech: verb (v.)

To marry; to unite in marriage; to wed. [R.] "Man thus wedlocked." Milton.