matrimonial

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

MATRIMO'NIAL, adjective 1. Pertaining to marriage; connubial; nuptial; hymeneal; as matrimonial rights or duties. 2. Derived from marriage. If he relied on that title, he could be but a king at curtesy, and have rather a matrimonial than a regal power.
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