1483. CAXTON, Golden Legend, 347. 4. This excellence that virgynyte had as to the respect of THACCOUPLEMENT of mariage appiereth by manyfold comparacion.
1525. MORE, History of King Richard III. [Works (1557), 63. 2]. Lawfull ACCOUPLING & … other things, which the doctor … rather signified than fully explaned.
1570. W. LAMBARDE, A Perambulation of Kent (1826), 339. The lawe of God maketh the ACCOUPLEMENT honorable amongst all men.
1594. R. CAREW, Huarte’s Examination of Men’s Wits (1616), 318. If the father … take to wife a woman cold and moist in the third degree, the sonne borne of such an ACCOUPLEMENT, shalbe most vntoward.
1613. FINCH, Law (1636), 369. They were never ACCOUPLED in lawfull matrimonie.
