Crossword-Solution: NUPTIAL
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| Nuptial | a. | Of or pertaining to marriage; done or used at a wedding; as, nuptial rites and ceremonies. |
| Nuptial | n. | Marriage; wedding; nuptial ceremony; -- now only in the plural. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| NUPTIAL | anagram | UNPLAIT |
We have 18 clues for the answer “NUPTIAL”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Relating to a wedding | 1 answer |
| Of certain knot-tying | 1 answer |
| Of a wedding. | 1 answer |
| relating to marriage | 2 answers |
| Kind of vows | 2 answers |
| Marriage-related | 3 answers |
| Wedding-related | 3 answers |
| Like some vows | 5 answers |
| connubial | 7 answers |
| conjugal | 7 answers |
| hymeneal | 8 answers |
| matrimonial | 8 answers |
| Marital | 8 answers |
| plumage | 9 answers |
| BRIDAL | 11 answers |
| Wedded | 12 answers |
| Married | 24 answers |
| Marriage | 26 answers |
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Sentences with NUPTIAL (5)
Here in close recess With Flowers, Garlands, and sweet-smelling Herbs Espoused _Eve_ deckt first her Nuptial Bed, And heav’nly Quires the Hymenaean sung, What day the genial Angel to our Sire Brought her in naked beauty more adorn’d, More lovely then _Pandora_, whom the Gods Endowd with all thir gifts, and O too like In sad event, when to the unwiser Son Of _Japhet_ brought by _Hermes_, she ensnar’d Mankind with her faire looks, to be aveng’d On him who had stole _Joves_ authentic fire.
Attempting to do so, she thought of those long-past days in a distant land, when he used to emerge at eventide from the seclusion of his study and sit down in the firelight of their home, and in the light of her nuptial smile.
That alone was enough to inspire me to victory over even greater odds, and I verily believe that I should have bested the entire roomful of yellow warriors that day in the nuptial chamber of the palace at Kadabra had not interruption come to my aid.
Brand had expressed a desire to tie the nuptial knot for his sister, took it into his head to arrange that, while his hand was in, our good friend should perform a like ceremony for himself and Lizzie Acton.” The Baroness threw back her head and smiled at her uncle; then turning, with an intenser radiance, to Robert Acton, “I am certainly very stupid not to have thought of that,” she said.
Bridal, n.] Of or pertaining to a bride, or to wedding; nuptial; as, bridal ornaments; a bridal outfit; a bridal chamber.
Quotes with NUPTIAL (3)
Only the middle distance and what may be called the remoter foreground are strictly human. When we look very near or very far, man either vanishes altogether or loses his primacy. The astronomer looks even further afield than the Sung painter and sees even less of human life. At the other end of the scale the physicist, the chemist, the physiologist pursue the close-up — the cellular close-up, the molecular, the atomic and subatomic. Of that which, at twenty feet, even at arm…
It grieved him plaguily, he said, to see the nuptial couch defrauded of its dearest pledges: and to reflect upon so many agreeable females with rich jointures, a prey for the vilest bonzes, who hide their flambeau under a bushel in an uncongenial cloister or lose their womanly bloom in the embraces of some unaccountable muskin when they might multiply the inlets of happiness, sacrificing the inestimable jewel of their sex when a hundred pretty fellows were at hand to caress, …
To love thus is to love according to the soul; and there is no soul that does not respond to this love. For the soul of man is a guest that has gone hungry these centuries back, and never has it to be summoned twice to the nuptial feast.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP.
Used 13 times in crossword archives (1958–2019).