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  1. Of or pertaining to matrimony; connubial; nuptial: as, matrimonial rights or duties. Cherish thy hasten'd widowhood with the gold Of matrimonial treason! Milton, S. A., l. 959. The main article in matrimonial alliances. Paley, Moral Philos., iii. 8.
  2. Derived from marriage. If he [Henry VII.] relied upon that title, he could be but a king at courtesy, and have rather a matrimonial than a regal power. Bacon, Hist. Hen. VII.
  3. Crown matrimonial in Scottish history, the right to a share in the sovereignty conferred on the husband of a reigning queen. The extent of this concession appears never to have been precisely defined; but the common belief is that it implied a complete partnership in the crown, with remainder to the survivor and his or her heirs. It was granted, with important reservations, on the occasion of the first marriage of Mary Queen of Scots, and was explicitly refused to her second husband.
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  • He rode easily in the calm harbour of home_, which was seldom ruffled with gales--matrimonial or otherwise The success of his Californian estate was so great that, besides setting up in life the most of the comrades who had followed his fortunes, it placed himself beyond the necessity of working for his daily bread. —  Over the Rocky Mountains Wandering Will in the Land of the Redskin
  • He turned out to be a fool; and his wife and the nobility declined to promise him the Crown-matrimonial, i.e._, to make him successor to her in case there were no children. —  John Knox
  • But the conversation which her ladyship had with me was all pro-matrimonial, and would not have suggested to the stranger that she was an ancient maiden of inviolate chastity. —  Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846
  • She had said nothing hitherto about his matrimonial or non-matrimonial affairs. —  The Bertrams
  • His father set him on to demand the crown matrimonial, which would at least have assured him the rank and station of independent royalty for life. —  The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 10
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  1. = French matrimonial = Spanish Portuguese matrimonial = Italian matrimoniale, from Late Latin matrimonialis, pertaining to marriage, from Latin matrimonium, marriage: see matrimony.
 

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