connubiate

English

Etymology

From Latin connūbium (“marriage”) +‎ -ate (verb-forming suffix).

Verb

connubiate (third-person singular simple present connubiates, present participle connubiating, simple past and past participle connubiated)

1. (rare, slang) To live together as man and wife; to marry; (loosely), to have relations.
   • 1814, Lord Byron, letter, 9 April:

     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.

   • 1861, John Heiton, The Castes of Edinburgh, page 119:

     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.

   • 2013, Philipp Meyer, The Son, Simon & Schuster, published 2014, page 73:

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

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