hymeneal

This contribution of Swinburne's,—the hymeneal touch,—and Murray's discovery that the word God could be introduced with effect anywhere, went like wildfire over England.

From Atlantic Classics, Second Series by Jane Addams

Always the same quiet, prim woman, ready at proper times to do her duty; to arrange hassocks at a christening, or to point out the positions for the actors at a hymeneal sacrifice.

From A Little World by George Manville Fenn

The marriage was nearly all that a marriage should be when a Lady Anna is led to the hymeneal altar.

From Lady Anna by Anthony Trollope

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 Charles Kingsley

Do you not recollect that eighteen years have run their circuit since we pledged our mutual faith to each other, and the hymeneal torch was lighted at the altar of Love?

From Familiar Letters of John Adams and His Wife Abigail Adams During the Revolution with a Memoir of Mrs. Adams by Abigail Adams