wive Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb take (someone) as a wife
  2. verb marry a woman, take a wife
  3. verb provide with a wife; marry (someone) to a wife

WordNet

Wive intransitive verb
Etymology
AS. wifian, gewifian. See Wite.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Wived ; present participle & verbal noun Wiving
Definitions
  1. To marry, as a man; to take a wife.
    Wherefore we pray you hastily to wive. Chaucer.
Wive transitive verb
Definitions
  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.

Webster 1913