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WIVE
wive
(verb) provide with a wife; marry (someone) to a wife
wive
(verb) marry a woman, take a wife
wive
(verb) take (someone) as a wife
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
wive (third-person singular simple present wives, present participle wiving, simple past and past participle wived)
(ambitransitive) To marry (a woman).
(transitive) To provide (someone) with a wife.
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Source: Wiktionary
Wive, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Wived; p. pr. & vb. n. Wiving.] Etym: [AS. wifian, gewifian. See Wite.]
Definition: To marry, as a man; to take a wife. Wherefore we pray you hastily to wive. Chaucer.
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.
2. To take for a wife; to marry. I have wived his sister. Sir W. Scott.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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