From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
1. Joined in wedlock; married.
Let w?alth, let honor, wait the wedded dame. --Pope.
2. Of or pertaining to wedlock, or marriage. ''Wedded love.'' --Milton.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Wed \Wed\, verb (used with an object) [imp. {Wedded}; p. p. {Wedded} or {Wed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Wedding}.] [OE. wedden, AS. weddian to covenant, promise, to wed, marry; akin to OFries. weddia to promise, D. wedden to wager, to bet, G. wetten, Icel. ve[eth]ja, Dan. vedde, Sw. v["a]dja to appeal, Goth. gawadj[=o]n to betroth. See {Wed}, noun]
1. To take for husband or for wife by a formal ceremony; to marry; to espouse.
With this ring I thee wed. --Bk. of Com. Prayer.
I saw thee first, and wedded thee. --Milton.
2. To join in marriage; to give in wedlock.
And Adam, wedded to another Eve, Shall live with her. --Milton.
3. Fig.: To unite as if by the affections or the bond of marriage; to attach firmly or indissolubly.
Thou art wedded to calamity. --Shak.
Men are wedded to their lusts. --Tillotson.
[Flowers] are wedded thus, like beauty to old age. --Cowper.
4. To take to one's self and support; to espouse. [Obs.]
They positively and concernedly wedded his cause. --Clarendon.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
adjective
1: having been taken in marriage [syn: {wed}]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
adjective
1: having been taken in marriage [syn: {wedded}]
noun
1: the fourth day of the week; the third working day [syn: {Wednesday}]
verb
1: take in marriage [syn: {marry}, {get married}, {conjoin}, {hook up with}, {get hitched with}, {espouse}]
2: perform a marriage ceremony; "The minister married us on Saturday"; "We were wed the following week"; "The couple got spliced on Hawaii" [syn: {marry}, {tie}, {splice}] [also: {wedding}, {wedded}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
76 Moby Thesaurus words for "wedded": affiliate, affiliated, allied, assembled, associate, associated, banded together, bound, bracketed, bridal, cabalistic, collateral, collected, confederate, confederated, conjoined, conjugal, conjugate, connected, connubial, conspiratorial, copulate, corporate, correlated, coupled, enleagued, epithalamic, federate, federated, gathered, hand-in-glove, hand-in-hand, husbandly, hymeneal, implicated, in cahoots, in league, in partnership, in with, incorporated, integrated, interlinked, interlocked, interrelated, intimate, involved, joined, knotted, leagued, linked, marital, married, matched, mated, matrimonial, merged, nuptial, of that ilk, of that kind, one, paired, parallel, partnered, partners with, related, spliced, spousal, teamed, tied, twinned, undivided, united, unseparated, wed, wifely, yoked
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