Mariageとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

mariage (countable and uncountable, plural mariages)

1. Obsolete spelling of marriage.
   • 1556, John Heywood, chapter 70, in The Spider and the Flie. […], London: […] Tho[mas] Powell, →OCLC; republished as A[dolphus] W[illiam] Ward, editor, The Spider and the Flie. […] (Publications of the Spenser Society, New Series; 6), Manchester: […] [Charles E. Simms] for the Spenser Society, 1894, →OCLC, page 327:

     [P]olicie, and pittie, pictured thus, / I take man and wife, and temperance (as who ſaie) / Miniſter in this mariage, I diſcus.

   • 1563 March 30 (Gregorian calendar), John Foxe, Actes and Monuments of These Latter and Perillous Dayes, […], London: […] Iohn Day, […], →OCLC, book I, page 941 [19]:

     For Images, reliques, prohibition of meates and mariage, and differēce of apparel, although som alteracion begā than amōgst certain, yet al this while, truth was euer able to match wyth errour and superstition, and that with the most consent of voices, amongst the learned.

   • 1644, J[ohn] M[ilton], “The eighth reason, It is probable, or rather certain, that every one who happ’ns to marry, hath not the calling, and therefore upon unfitnesse found and consider’d, force ought not to be us’d”, in The Doctrine or Discipline of Divorce: […], 2nd edition, London: [s.n.], →OCLC, book I, page 27:

     As for the cuſtome that ſome parents and guardians have of forcing mariages, it will be better to ſay nothing of ſuch a ſavage inhumanity, […]

語源

Old French mariage.