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US
/ˌhɪməˈniəɫ/
]
NOUN
- a wedding hymn
ADJECTIVE
-
of or relating to a wedding or marriage
hymeneal rites
How To Use hymeneal In A Sentence
- Is it so difficult to wait until you are out of the register office to exchange some home-made vows and a selection of inspiring hymeneal ditties?
- hymeneal rites
- What the deuce does a mariage de convenance mean but all this, and are not such sober Hymeneal torches more satisfactory often than the most brilliant love matches that ever flamed and burnt out? The Newcomes
- Unless the publication of this letter leads to some favourable offers I shall send my unknown, but hymeneally disposed, correspondent this sketch of a lady capable of looking after so young and venturesome a man, seated at the docks waiting his arrival, for unless he has a sketch or photograph how is he to identify his 'love' amidst the crowd which greets the homeward-bound steamer? The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol 2 (of 2)
- Also the general idea is that no blood will impose upon the exerts, or jury of matrons, except that of a pigeon-poult which exactly resembles hymeneal blood — when not subjected to the microscope. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
- The ground was spread with leaves and flowers, and their musicians sung a hymeneal song to the tune of their flutes.
- For this reason he was invoked in the hymeneal songs.
- The fairy of folk-lore in Shakespeare's day is nearly everything that the fairies of _A Midsummer-Night's Dream_ are; we may possibly except their exiguity, their relations in love with mortals, and their hymeneal functions. The Sources and Analogues of 'A Midsummer-night's Dream'
- Wedding is a kind of rite promulgation to society when a female and male confirm the hymeneal relations between both of them.