Wīve1, v. i.
v. i. [From wife.] [imp. & p. p. WIVED; p. pr. & vb. n. WIVING.] To marry, as a man; to take a wife.
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v. i. [From wife.] [imp. & p. p. WIVED; p. pr. & vb. n. WIVING.] To marry, as a man; to take a wife.
v. t. [A-S. wifian, gewifian.]
Sense 1. To match to a wife; to provide with a wife.
If I could get me but a wife ... I were manned, horsed, and wived. Shak.
Sense 2. To take for a wife; to espouse or to wed, as a man.
I have wived his sister. W. Scott.