The public performance of a sacrament or solemn ceremony with all appropriate ritual.
1
The Archbishop of Canterbury is beginning the solemnisation of the marriage.
2
Tell me, therefore, whether you object to an immediate solemnisation of the marriage.
3
For her everything lay in the blessing of the priest, in the religious solemnisation of matrimony.
4
Such, then, appears to have been the annual solemnisation of the death and resurrection of Attis in spring.
5
Hereby the nuptial league hath been confirmed; the solemnisation whereof in temples before God is in effect a most sacred oath.
6
Everything being prepared for the solemnisation of our nuptials, which were to be performed privately at my father's house, the auspicious hour arrived.