betroth

betroth is a Verb

Definition:

[1] To contract to any one for a marriage; to engage or promise in order to marriage; to affiance; -- used esp. of a woman. He, in the first flower of my freshest age, Betrothed me unto the only heir. Spenser. Ay, and we are betrothed. Shak.

[2] To promise to take (as a future spouse); to plight one`s troth to. What man is there that hath betrothed a wife, and hath not taken her Deut. xx. 7.

[3] To nominate to a bishopric, in order to consecration. Ayliffe.