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wive, v.|waɪv|
Forms: 1 wifian, (3 wifue), 3–6 wyue (-ve), 3–7 wiue, 7– wive.
[OE. wífian (= MLG., MDu. wîven), f. wíf wife n.]
1. intr. († rarely refl.) To take a wife, get married, marry. Const. † on (o), with. Also occas. with it.
c888ælfred Boeth. xi. §1 Maniᵹe habbað ᵹenoᵹ ᵹesælilice ᵹewifod. c1000ælfric's Canons vii. in Thorpe Laws (1840) II. 346 He ne moste on wydewum wifiᵹan. a1225Ancr. R. 308 Judas..wiuede o Thamar. a1225Juliana 12 Ȝef þat he..ne schal wiuen on me, wiue þer his wil is. c1250Gen. & Ex. 1588 Quad rebecca to hire were, Esau wifuede us to dere. 1297R. Glouc. (Rolls) 6459 Þo adde hii boþe iwiued wel. c1320Sir Tristr. 2896 To wiue on our kinde. 1340Ayenb. 225 Zaynte paul..zayþ to wodewon, ‘huo þet guod is, he him hyealde ine þet stat; and yef hit him naȝt ne lykeþ, he him wyui’. c1386Chaucer Clerk's T. 117 Ther as myn herte is set ther wol I wyue. c1460Wisdom 666 in Macro Plays 57 Wndyrstondynge. We haue þat nedyt vs, so thryve I; Wyll. And yff þat I care, neuer wyve I. 1546J. Heywood Prov. i. xi. 28 It is harde to wiue and thryue bothe in a yere. 1596Shakes. Tam. Shr. i. ii. 56, I haue thrust my selfe into this maze, Happily to wiue and thriue, as best I may. Ibid. 75, I come to wiue it wealthily in Padua. 1606Marston Parasit. v. H 4, Goe thy waies & wiue with whome thou wilt for my part. 1774Johnson To Mrs. Thrale 17 All who wisely wish to wive. 1817Byron Beppo xcii, With any other women did you wive? 1876Hardy Ethelberta xxvii, Encouraging Neigh in his resolve to wive.
2. To be a wife, act as a wife. Also with it. rare.
1583B. Melbancke Philotimus E j b, Were it not very absurd..for maides being scarse borne, to begin to bride it, and say in so doing they woulde learne to wiue it? 1639[see wiving ppl. a.]. 1891C. E. Norton Dante's Hell i. 100 Many are the animals with which she [sc. a she-wolf] wives [orig. a cui sammoglia].
3. trans. To take to wife, make one's wife, marry, wed (a woman); pa. pple. made or become a wife, married (to a man).
1592Warner Alb. Eng. vii. xxxv. 152 He wyu'd a Lady passing faire. 1596Shakes. Merch. V. i. ii. 145, I had rather hee should shriue me then wiue me. 1676Hobbes Odyssey ii. 203 Many other ladies we could wive. 1848–9Lytton K. Arthur ii. lxv, ‘Wived to my son, the witch will soon be steady!’ ‘Wived to your son?—she is a wife already!’ 1862Meredith Modern Love xxxv, It is no vulgar nature I have wived. 1898E. P. Evans Evol. Ethics i. 52 The Magians continued to wive their sisters in conformity to ancient usage.
4. To furnish with a wife, obtain a wife for; to marry to a wife: chiefly in pa. pple. married (of a man). Obs. or arch.
1513More Rich. III (1883) 61 Smal pleasure taketh a man of al that euer he hath beside, yf he bee wiued against his appetite. 1583B. Melbancke Philotimus X iij b, They are euill horsed, and worse wiued, that ride on coltes & marrie younge giglittes. 1597Shakes. 2 Hen. IV, i. ii. 61, I bought him in Paules, and hee'l buy mee a horse in Smithfield. If I could get mee a wife in the Stewes, I were Mann'd, Hors'd, and Wiu'd. 1604― Oth. ii. i. 60 Mon. .. Is your Generall wiu'd? Cassio. Most fortunately: he hath atchieu'd a Maid That paragons description. 1608― Per. v. ii. 10 He is promisde to be wiued To faire Marina. 1670Milton Hist. Eng. iii. Wks. 1851 V. 113 She..won so much upon his fancy, though already wiv'd, as to demand her in mariage. 1816Crabbe Flirtation 372 His craft contrived To get the Priest with expedition wived. 1820Scott Monast. xxxvii, I promise you..that young Bennygask shall be richly wived. 1851W. B. MacCabe Bertha III. xiv. 376, I [Henry] can do more strange things than unwive myself, and wive you.
†b. with it: To obtain a wife for. Obs. rare.
1608J. Day Humour out of Breath i. i. B 3, Oct... Ile one day get A husband for thee... Flo... Wiue it for them [sc. my brothers], you shall not husband me.
5. To become the wife of, marry (a man; also transf. of an animal). Obs. or arch.
1621G. Sandys Ovid's Met. ix. (1626) 175 So haue I seene two Buls together close; The fairest Cow in all the pasture chose To wiue the Victor. 1812Crabbe Tales xii. 283 Served by that Villain—by this Fury wived—What fate is mine!
6. fig. To ‘wed’, unite, couple. rare.
1886Lowell Latest Lit. Ess., Gray (1891) 2 The thoughts, wived with words above their own level.
Hence wived |waɪvd|, ppl. a.
1633Costlie Whore iv. end, He shalbe intombed with a wived maid. 1876Encycl. Brit. V. 293/2 Gregory VII..determined..that no wived priest should celebrate or even assist at the Mass. |