Verb (used with object) : to solemnize an occasion with prayer. From Dictionary.com.
It is all so grotesque when one remembers how ready they are to 'solemnize' -- save the mark!. From Wordnik.com. [A Man and a Woman] Reference
He needn't know when the old lady died, but it will kind of solemnize him. ". From Wordnik.com. [He Fell in Love with His Wife] Reference
Re: the above posts about those who “solemnize” marriages. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Why Marry?:] Reference
The baptism of two adults tended much to solemnize the festival. From Wordnik.com. [The Moravians in Labrador] Reference
When it pleassth the great Can to solemnize a feast, he hath about him 14000. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Friar Odoric] Reference
What is the meaning of the precept not to solemnize marriage at forbidden times?. From Wordnik.com. [Baltimore Catechism No. 4 (of 4) An Explanation of the Baltimore Catechism of Christian Doctrine] Reference
Do you remember how to celebrate (to honor, to solemnize, to frequent) Life and the Light?. From Wordnik.com. [Sagittarius New Moon, December 9, 2007: Pregnant with Divinity] Reference
His first instinct, of course, had been to see to it that she did not solemnize this marriage. From Wordnik.com. [Heartless]
But he felt a need to solemnize this occasion, to officially mark her departure from childhood. From Wordnik.com. [Best Kept Secrets]
I am at a most perplexing uncertainty whether she will meet us or not next Thursday to solemnize. From Wordnik.com. [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference
Nor could he solemnize the event, as he desired, by the appearance on the scaffold of a single Yorkshireman. From Wordnik.com. [The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886] Reference
What hath so dire a tendency to solemnize the heart and impress it with the most just and weighty religious sentiments?. From Wordnik.com. [Sermons on Various Important Subjects] Reference
Reply Obj. 2: It is not customary to solemnize particular acts, but the embracing of a new state, as we have said above. From Wordnik.com. [Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province] Reference
Since plenty of religions solemnize religious SSM right now, religious marriage would not be restricted to OS couples only. From Wordnik.com. [SSM Opponent Predicts End of Western Civilization Due To Sexual Disorganization] Reference
Civil authorities may permit religious leaders to solemnize marriages but not to determine who may enter or leave a civil marriage. From Wordnik.com. [Brian Levin, J.D.: In Prop 8 Case Constitutional Concepts of Marriage and Discrimination Are Key] Reference
We can discuss the conditions that allow access to becoming-French in other terms -- multiply them, tighten them, refine and solemnize them. From Wordnik.com. [Bernard-Henri Lévy: Nicolas Sarkozy's Three Errors] Reference
And if there be a union of hearts, and an intention to solemnize, what is there wanting but the foolish ceremony? — and that I still offer. From Wordnik.com. [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference
The purchases for the wedding of Miss Dennel being now made, that young lady came down to the country to solemnize her nuptials, accompanied by. From Wordnik.com. [Camilla] Reference
Many a disguised Tory has lately shown his head, that shall penitentially solemnize with curses the day on which Howe arrived upon the Delaware. From Wordnik.com. [Happy Birthday America! « PurpleSlog – Awesomeness & Modesty Meets Sexy] Reference
General Xue's offer of a house of her own meant a lot to my grandmother, as did his promise to solemnize the liaison with a full wedding ceremony. From Wordnik.com. [WILD SWANS THREE DAUGHTERS OF CHINA]
IANAL and am certainly open to being corrected, but I suspect that “solemnize” has reference to the creation of a marriage contract in the eyes of the state. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Why Marry?:] Reference
When the judge had drawn up the contract in all the requisite forms, the sultan asked Aladdin if he would stay in the palace, and solemnize the ceremonies of marriage that day. From Wordnik.com. [Types of Children's Literature] Reference
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