epithalamy

English

Noun

epithalamy (plural epithalamies)

1. Alternative form of epithalamium
   • a. 1631 (date written), J[ohn] Donne, “(please specify the title)”, in Poems, […] with Elegies on the Authors Death, London: […] M[iles] F[lesher] for Iohn Marriot, […], published 1633, →OCLC:

     He shew'd us how for sinnes we ought to sigh,
     And how to sing Christs Epithalamy

References

“epithalamy”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.