wive
VerbOpen English WordNet
Verb (3)wives, wived, wiving
- take (someone) as a wifeMore general marry, get married
- marry a woman, take a wifeMore general marry, get married
- provide with a wife; marry (someone) to a wifeMore general supply, provide
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Wive intransitive verb [past tense & past participle Wived; present participle & verbal noun Wiving.]
Origin: AS. wīfian, gewīfian. See Wite.
To marry, as a man; to take a wife.
Wherefore we pray you hastily to wive.— Geoffrey Chaucer
Wive transitive verb
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.” William Shakespeare
2. To take for a wife; to marry.
I have wived his sister.— Sir Walter Scott
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54