wive

• POS: Verb (usu participle), Verb (transitive)

CIDE DICTIONARY

wive, v. i. [AS. wīfian, gewīfian. See Wite.].

 To marry, as a man; to take a wife.  [1913 Webster]
"Wherefore we pray you hastily to wive."  [1913 Webster]

wive, v. t. 

•  To match to a wife; to provide with a wife.  Shak.  [1913 Webster]
•  To take for a wife; to marry.  [1913 Webster]

  "I have wived his sister."  [1913 Webster]

ROGET THESAURUS

wive

Marriage

VB marry, wive, take to oneself a wife, be married, be spliced, go off, pair off, wed, espouse, get hitched, lead to the hymeneal altar, take 'for better for worse', give one's hand to, bestow one's hand upon, marry, join, handfast, couple, tie the nuptial knot, give away, give away in marriage, seal, ally, affiance, betroth, publish the banns, bid the banns, be asked in church.