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   Wive, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Wived (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Wiving.] [AS. wīfian, gewīfian.  See Wite.] To marry, as a man; to take a wife.
   
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   Wherefore we pray you hastily to wive. Chaucer.
   
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   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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