Wordnet 3.0
VERB (3)
1.
take (someone) as a wife;
2.
marry a woman, take a wife;
3.
provide with a wife;
marry (someone) to a wife;
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Wive \Wive\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Wived; p. pr. & vb. n.
Wiving.] [AS. w[imac]fian, gew[imac]fian. See Wite.]
To marry, as a man; to take a wife.
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Wherefore we pray you hastily to wive. --Chaucer.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Wive \Wive\, v. t.
1. To match to a wife; to provide with a wife. "An I could
get me but a wife . . . I were manned, horsed, and wived."
--Shak.
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2. To take for a wife; to marry.
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I have wived his sister. --Sir W.
Scott.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
wive
v 1: take (someone) as a wife
2: marry a woman, take a wife
3: provide with a wife; marry (someone) to a wife