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  • noun genetics A person who is on a family tree because he has married someone on the tree, and is not related by blood to anyone on the tree except his own descendants.
  • noun A protest where many people marry, as in protest of a law that forbids such marriages.

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Examples

  • Moreover, between these dainty crusts our am'rous tongues discovered liberal largesse of th 'integrant fruit, -- peach, and other the like confections, sugared and spiced, which with the creamy milk did mingle and marry-in rarely, patly, like' two

    Tiger-Lilies. A Novel. 1867

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