The word 'solemnize' is correct and usable in written English.
It is a verb that means to formally observe or celebrate, typically with a ceremony. For example, "The couple solemnized their marriage with a small, private ceremony in front of close family and friends."
That is the kind of answer it should give; a death certificate is not Auden's elegy for Yeats, meant to both solemnize and lift our grief.
The bill, sponsored by State Senator Ron Allen, would have made it a third-degree felony for a parent to allow a minor child to enter into an unlawful marriage or for any person to knowingly "solemnize" the union of a woman with a man who was already married.
They work both as monuments to the cause and as exemplary bits of urbanism, incorporated into public spaces that they solemnize without subduing.
I look forward to the day when he and I find each other, fall in love, and solemnize our relationship by exchanging Kiss Monitors™.
Outside the city clerk's office in Lower Manhattan, rabbis from a synagogue in the West Village were scheduled to solemnize weddings under a rainbow-colored huppah, or Jewish wedding canopy.
Paul A. Jarvie, a friend of the groom's family who received permission from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to solemnize this marriage, officiated at the Seaport Boston Hotel.
The Church of England has some 13,000 parishes and a similar number of clergy, but it solemnizes fewer than one-third of marriages and baptizes only one in four babies.
Truman designated MacArthur as the Allied powers' supreme commander to accept Japan's formal surrender, which was solemnized aboard the U.S. flagship Missouri in Tokyo Bay: the Japanese foreign minister, Shigemitsu Mamoru, signed the document first, on behalf of the Emperor and his government.
Because of the Roman Catholic prohibition of the union of first cousins, the marriage was solemnized only in 1915, after three of the couple's four children had already been born.
Israel, moreover, solemnizes only the first and last day of each festival, whereas the first two and last two days of each observance are solemnized by Jews outside Israel.
Although there is evidence of divorce in early Indian history, by the Gupta period marriage was solemnized by lengthy sacred rites and was virtually indissoluble.
