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Definition of Solemnise

1. Verb. Observe or perform with dignity or gravity. "The King solemnized this day of morning"

2. Verb. Perform (the wedding ceremony) with proper ceremonies.

3. Verb. Make solemn and grave. "This ceremony solemnized our hearts"

Definition of Solemnise

1. Verb. (British spelling) (alternative spelling of solemnize) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Solemnise

soled soledad pine solei solein soleless solely solemn solemner solemness solemnest

solemnified solemnifies solemnify solemnifying solemnisation solemnise (current term) solemnised solemnises solemnising solemnities

solemnity solemnizate solemnizated solemnizates solemnizating solemnization solemnizations solemnize solemnized solemnizer

Literary usage of Solemnise

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Select Collection of Old English Plays by William Carew Hazlitt, Robert Dodsley, Richard Morris (1874)
"Agreed. ALL. FORTUNATUS. Then march along, and let's be gone, To solemnise two marriages in one. FINIS. [Exeunt omnes. ... solemnise ..."

2. Reports of All the Cases Decided by All the Superior Courts Relating to by Great Britain Magistrates' cases, Edward William Cox (1864)
"... ancient chapelry had the exclusive right to publish the banni and solemnise, ... of marriage and to solemnise marriages in Oldham church between persons ..."

3. The Revised Reports: Being a Republication of Such Cases in the English by Frederick Pollock, Robert Campbell, Oliver Augustus Saunders, Arthur Beresford Cane, Joseph Gerald Pease, William Bowstead, Great Britain Courts (1903)
"... and ordered to solemnise the said marriage in the face of the Church ;" and the sentence is accordingly. For when Sir GEO. LEE, in Baxter v. ..."

4. The Jurist by Great Britain Courts, Great Britain (1857)
"... person duly authorised under the provisions of this act to solemnise a marriage shall be as valid and effectual for authorising such person to solemnise ..."

5. A Treatise on Crimes and Misdemeanors by William Oldnall Russell, Horace Smith, Alfred Percival Perceval Keep (1896)
"39, ' Every person who after the said first day of March (1837),shall knowingly and wilfully solemnise any marriage in England, except by special licence, ..."

6. Conference of Bishops of the Anglican Communion, Holden at Lambeth Palace by Church of England (1908)
"No Clergyman of this Church shall solemnise Matrimony until he has been ... No Clergyman shall solemnise marriages between parties who are within the ..."

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