solemnize
English
Alternative forms
- solemnise (UK)
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French solemnisier, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Medieval Latin solemnizare, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin solemnis.
Verb
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- (transitive, US) To make solemn, or official, through ceremony or legal act.
- The couple chose to solemnize their relationship in a secular ceremony, instead of having a wedding.
- Hooker
- Baptism to be administered in one place, and marriage solemnized in another.
- Milton
- Their choice nobility and flowers […] / Met from all parts to solemnize this feast.
- To make grave, serious, and reverential.
- J. C. Shairp
- Wordsworth was solemnized and elevated by this his first look on Yarrow.
- L. Wallace
- Every Israelite […] arose, solemnized his face, looked towards Jerusalem […] and prayed.
- J. C. Shairp