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wive |
3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Wive \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. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. 2. To take for a wife; to marry. I have wived his sister. --Sir W. Scott. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: 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
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