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Entry 3 senses · 2 variants Webster, 1913

Wive

· IPA /waɪv/
01 v. i. To marry, as a man; to take a wife.
imp. & p. p. Wived; p. pr. & vb. n. Wiving
  1. 1.
    To marry, as a man; to take a wife.
    “Wherefore we pray you hastily to wive.” — Chaucer.
02 v. t. To match to a wife; to provide with a wife.
  1. 1.
    To match to a wife; to provide with a wife.
  2. 2.
    To take for a wife; to marry.
    “I have wived his sister.” — Sir W. Scott.