Hymeneal - pertaining to Hymen, god of marriage, nuptial. It is a very wonderful term they use in the old newspapers to describe wedding ceremonies. Like using The Work of Death instead of Obituary or Deaths. Here is the text of the notice - short and sweet: The Daily News - Hymeneal - Wednesday, September 26, 1906 Miss Gertie Barkman and Dinsmore O. Toms, both of Wolfsville, were married in Cavetown on September 23 by Rev. J. P. Harner, pastor of the Reformed church.