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wive
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Wive \Wive\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Wived; p. pr. & vb. n. Wiving.] [AS. w[imac]fian, gew[imac]fian. See Wite.] To marry, as a man; to take a wife. [1913 Webster] Wherefore we pray you hastily to wive. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] .
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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.
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2. To take for a wife; to marry.
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I have wived his sister. --Sir W.
Scott.
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