Definitions for: Wive


[v] provide with a wife; marry (someone) to a wife
[v] marry a woman, take a wife
[v] take (someone) as a wife



Webster (1913) Definition: Wive, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Wived; p. pr. & vb. n.
Wiving.] [AS. w[=i]fian, gew[=i]fian. See Wite.]
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.

See Also: conjoin, espouse, furnish, get hitched with, get married, hook up with, marry, provide, render, supply, wed

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