hymeneal
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The singing of a hymeneal song in connection with the wedding festivities was a very ancient custom among the Greeks.
From Six Centuries of English Poetry Tennyson to Chaucer by James Baldwin
This contribution of Swinburne's,—the hymeneal touch,—and Murray's discovery that the word God could be introduced with effect anywhere, went like wildfire over England.
From Atlantic Classics, Second Series by Jane Addams
Always the same quiet, prim woman, ready at proper times to do her duty; to arrange hassocks at a christening, or to point out the positions for the actors at a hymeneal sacrifice.
From A Little World by George Manville Fenn
Since that time their happiness has never had the least interruption; except from the hymeneal expedition of my friend Henry.
From The Mysterious Wanderer, Vol. III A Novel in Three Volumes by Sophia Reeve
By numbers sought,—averse alike to all; Impatient of their suit, through forests wild, And groves, in maiden ignorance she roams; Nor cares for Cupid, nor hymeneal rites, Nor soft connubial joys.
From The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II by J. J. Howard
