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 Baldwin, James

The arena allotted for this hymeneal contest, was a level space in front of the village-inn, and near the centre of a grass-plat, reserved in the midst of the village denominated "the green."

From The Portland Sketch Book by Various

Men will stand mateless, and the ruins of the hymeneal altars everywhere crumble mournfully away, and be known to tradition only by their vanishing inscriptions: "To the unknown god."

From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III by Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

To my dark lot no bridal joys Belong, nor e’er the jocund noise p. 50Of hymeneal chant shall sound for me, But death, cold death, my only spouse shall be.

From Lectures Delivered in America in 1874 by Kingsley, Charles

"You shall never—never—lead her to the hymeneal altar."

From A Book of Ghosts by Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine)