| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. Of Espouse.[Websters]
2. To be married or conciliated. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. To have caressed or intertwined. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. To be paired. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. To have squeezed or enfolded. [Eve - graph theoretic] 6. To be sided. [Eve - graph theoretic] 7. To have joined or spliced. [Eve - graph theoretic] 8. To be interlaced. [Eve - graph theoretic] 9. To have bolstered or indorsed. [Eve - graph theoretic] 10. To have husbanded or mated.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Past Tense | 1. Past tense conjugation of the verb espouse.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (espouse) | 1. Choose and follow; as of theories, ideas, policies, strategies or plans; "The candidate espouses Republican ideals".[Wordnet]. 2. Take up the cause, ideology, practice, method, of someone and use it as one's own.[Wordnet]. 3. Take in marriage.[Wordnet]. 4. To betroth; to promise in marriage; to give as spouse.[Websters]. 5. To take as spouse; to take to wife; to marry.[Websters]. 6. To take to one's self with a view to maintain; to make one's own; to take up the cause of; to adopt; to embrace.[Websters]. 7. Base verb from the following inflections: espousing, espoused, espouses, espouser, espousers, espousingly and espousedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Adjective | 1. Being married.
[Eve - graph theoretic] 2. Being matrimonial. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. Being paired. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. Being interlaced.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license. | Top | |
Date "ESPOUSED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Specialty Definition: ESPOUSED
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | [Verb] Betrothed; affianced; promised in marriage by contract; married; united intimately; embraced.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | ||
| Wiktionary | [Verb] Simple past tense and past participle of espouse. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | Top | ||
