Crossword clues for wive
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.
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.-
To take for a wife; to marry.
I have wived his sister.
--Sir W. Scott.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"to marry (a woman)," Old English wifian, from wif "woman" (see wife). Compare Middle Dutch wiven. Transitive sense "provide with a wife" is from 1510s. Related: Wived; wiving.
Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context transitive English) To marry (a woman). 2 (context transitive English) To provide (someone) with a wife.
WordNet
v. take (someone) as a wife
marry a woman, take a wife
provide with a wife; marry (someone) to a wife
Usage examples of "wive".
The merchant was accused of having made zina with two of his concubines at the same time, while his four wives and a third concubine were let to watch, and all together those circumstances were haram under Muslim law.
But not to any infants of royal blood, or any who could in future become the wives or concubines of a royal court.
He was a wealthy Persian merchant whose household anderun consisted of the allowable four wives and the usual numerous concubines besides.
An elderly Arab merchant had charged the youngest and comeliest of his four wives with having abandoned him and eloped to the tent of a young and good-looking Russniak.
One of my wives died after trying one of my preparations, but she died with a blissful smile on her lips.
A variant of that preparation gave another of my wives an eminently vivid dream.
I am too old for the purpose, and my two remaining wives would refuse, anyway, to join me in the experiments.
Arabs and Persians had wives, they were not permitted to dine in mixed company.
In the old nomad days, you see, a Mongol lord kept his wives dispersed about his territory, each in her own yurtu, so that wherever he rode he never had to endure a wifeless night.
Some conventicle of old wives and concubines and senior servants had discovered in them some trace of base alloy.
Instead of each man being the Shah of a whole anderun of wives and concubines, every marriageable woman possessed a whole anderun of men, and the legions of her less comely sisters were doomed to spinsterhood.
So I took no opportunity to ravish any chaste Yi wives or virgin Yi daughters.
I am told that he arrived here in Akyab nearly impoverished and nearly alone, with only one of his lesser and younger wives, a few loyal old servants and a not very heavy purse.
I am careful to marry none but wives of my own white race, they keep producing children of disappointingly dark skin.
He doubtless has other wives, as well, but now he wishes to have for his premier wife and Ilkhatun a woman of pure Mongol blood and upbringing.