WIVE

v.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
v.

To marry, as a man; to take a wife. Wherefore we pray you hastily to wive. Chaucer.

2.
v.

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.

3.
v.

To take for a wife; to marry. I have wived his sister. Sir W. Scott.


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