Both Uses of
nuptial
in
Measure for Measure
- She should this Angelo have married; was affianced to her by oath, and the nuptial appointed: between which time of the contract and limit of the solemnity her brother Frederick was wrecked at sea, having in that perished vessel the dowry of his sister.†
Scene 3.1 *
- — Proclaim it, Provost, round about the city, If any woman wrong'd by this lewd fellow,— As I have heard him swear himself there's one Whom he begot with child,—let her appear, And he shall marry her: the nuptial finish'd, Let him be whipp'd and hang'd.†
Scene 5.1
Definition:
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(nuptial) of or relating to a wedding