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  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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