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Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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.

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.

Source : WordNet®

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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