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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
solemnise .
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Examples
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And these holy men, after they had brought this body with solemnity, ordained the feast of the invention of this holy body should be solemnised, which is yet there kept and is about the time of the Invention of the Holy Cross.
The Golden Legend, vol. 7 1230-1298 1900
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The groom, Sagula, was carried by his family in procession to the village temple, where a priest solemnised the marriage between Sagula and his bride Jyoti by chanting Sanskrit hymns, a witness said.
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It was further determined that the marriage should be solemnised upon the fourth day after signing the articles, a measure adopted by Lady Ashton, in order that Lucy might have as little time as possible to recede or relapse into intractability.
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In all probability, the marriage was solemnised in 305 BC, when Seleucus Nicator was defeated in the battle.
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The pack, rushing in upon their disabled enemy, soon ended his painful struggles, and solemnised his fall with their clamour; the hunters, with their horns and voices, whooping and blowing a mort, or death-note, which resounded far over the billows of the adjacent ocean.
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The temple's chief priest decided to conduct this unusual marriage when a bull named 'Kannan' appeared in his dream and expressed the desire to have a marriage solemnised.
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Kulbir had arranged a priest for the wedding and in fact, he was the only person to attend their wedding apart from the priest who solemnised the rituals conducted without the usual pomp and gaiety.
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The Civil Union Act, 2006, allows for civil unions to be solemnised by way of either a marriage or a civil partnership.
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But before proceeding either to business or refreshment, Mr. Bide-the-Bent, at a signal from Sir William Ashton, invited the company to join him in a short extemporary prayer, in which he implored a blessing upon the contract now to be solemnised between the honourable parties then present.
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“There is something solemn in this delay of the storm,” said Sir George; “it seems as if it suspended its peal till it solemnised some important event in the world below.”
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