connubial

[ Lat.connubial is of or relating to marriage; connubium =marriage.] Of or relating to matrimony; nuptial, matrimonial. "Alone Uly es drew the vital air; And I alone the bed connubial grac'd." Pope: Homer's Ody ey, bk. xvi., 1. 126-7. còn-nu-bi-al-1-ty, s. [Formed as if from a Lat. connubial it as, from connubial is = pertaining to matrimony, connubial.] 1. Actions or words such as might pa between married people. "With a view of stopping some connubialities which had begun to pa between Mr. and Mrs. Browdie." Dickens: Nicholas Nickle by , ch. xi. 2. Matrimony. "I think he's the wictim of connubiality."-Dickens: Pickwick Papers , ch. xx. côn-nu-bi-al-lý, adv. [Eng. cornubial; -ly.] In a connubial manner; after the manner of married people.