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Pronunciation : Wive
Part of Speech : v.
Etymology : [AS. wifian, gewifian. See Wite.]
Definition : Defn: To marry, as a man; to take a wife. Wherefore we pray you hastily to wive. Chaucer.

i. [imp. & p. p. Wived; p. pr. & vb. n. Wiving.]
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913

Pronunciation : Wive
Part of Speech : v.
Definition : 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.

t.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913