'Wive' definitions:

Definition of 'wive'

(from WordNet)
verb
Take (someone) as a wife
verb
Marry a woman, take a wife
verb
Provide with a wife; marry (someone) to a wife

Definition of 'Wive'

From: GCIDE
  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • Wherefore we pray you hastily to wive. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Wive'

From: GCIDE
  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. To take for a wife; to marry. [1913 Webster]
  • I have wived his sister. --Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster]

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