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   Wedlock , n. [AS. wedlāc a pledge, be trothal; wedd a pledge + lāc a gift, an offering. See Wed, n., and cf. Lake, v. i., Knowledge.]
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   The ceremony, or the state, of marriage; matrimony. “That blissful yoke . . . that men clepeth [call] spousal, or wedlock.” 
   Chaucer.
   
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   For what is wedlock forced but a hell,
   An age of discord or continual strife?
   Shak.
   
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   A wife; a married woman. [Obs.]
   B. Jonson.
   
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   Syn. -- See Marriage.
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   Wedlock, v. t. To marry; to unite in marriage; to wed. [R.] “Man thus wedlocked.” 
   Milton.
   
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