All 5 Uses of
nuptial
in
A Midsummer Night's Dream
- ] THESEUS Now, fair Hippolyta, our nuptial hour Draws on apace; four happy days bring in Another moon; but, oh, methinks, how slow This old moon wanes! she lingers my desires, Like to a step-dame or a dowager, Long withering out a young man's revenue.†
Scene 1.1
- Demetrius, and Egeus, go along; I must employ you in some business Against our nuptial, and confer with you Of something nearly that concerns yourselves.†
Scene 1.1 *
- Near to her close and consecrated bower, While she was in her dull and sleeping hour, A crew of patches, rude mechanicals, That work for bread upon Athenian stalls, Were met together to rehearse a play Intended for great Theseus' nuptial day.†
Scene 3.2
- That is some satire, keen and critical, Not sorting with a nuptial ceremony.†
Scene 5.1
- PHILOSTRATE Hard-handed men that work in Athens here, Which never labour'd in their minds till now; And now have toil'd their unbreath'd memories With this same play against your nuptial.†
Scene 5.1
Definition:
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(nuptial) of or relating to a wedding