wivev.

Brit.

/wʌɪv/, U.S.

/waɪv/

Forms: early Old English gewiifad (past participle), Old English wifian, early Middle English iwiwed (past participle), early Middle English wyui, Middle English wifue, Middle English wyf, Middle English wyfe, Middle English wyffe, Middle English wyne (transmission error), Middle English wyuy, Middle English wywe, Middle English–1500s wyue, Middle English–1600s wiue, Middle English–1600s wyve, 1500s 1700s 1900s– wife ( Brit.

/wʌɪf/, U.S.

/waɪf/), 1600s– wive; also Scottish pre-1700 vyue, pre-1700 wyfe.

Origin: A word inherited from Germanic. Etymon: wife n.

Etymology: Cognate with or formed similarly to Old Frisian wīvia (West Frisian wiivje ), Middle Dutch wīven (Dutch wijven ), Middle Low German w̄iven , Middle High German wīben < the Germanic base of wife n. In later use (especially in form wife) also independently < wife n.Original intervocalic -f- was regularly voiced in Old English (although spelt with f in accordance with Old English spelling conventions); such forms are continued in Middle English and later forms in -v- ; compare e.g. thieve v. (beside thief n.) and see discussion at wife n. Later forms in -f- show the influence of the noun. In Old English the prefixed form gewīfian i-wive v. is also attested.

Now somewhat archaic.

1. intransitive. Of a man: to marry; to take a wife. Also with †on, with, specifying the woman married. Also formerly transitive (reflexive) in same sense. See also to wive it ( Phrases c).Often paired, in proverbial phrases, with thrive.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > action or fact of marrying > marry [verb (intransitive)] > of a man

to wed (a woman) to wifea1000

brideOE

i-wivec1000

wiveOE

to wed (a) wife1297

to lead (a bride) to the altar, to church1530

to wive it1583

OE Ælfric Let. to Wulfsige (Corpus Cambr.) in B. Fehr Die Hirtenbriefe Ælfrics (1914) 6 He ne moste swaþeah butan æne wifigan, ne he ne moste on wydewum wifigan ne on aworpenum wife.

lOE King Ælfred tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (Bodl.) (2009) I. xi. 261 Manige habbað genog gesælilice gewifod, ac for bearnleste eallne þone welan..hi lætað fræmdum to brucanne.

c1225 (?c1200) St. Juliana (Royal) 76 He..ne schal wiuen on me, wiue þer his wil is.

?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 228 Iudas..wiuede o thamar.

a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 1588 Quad rebecca to hire were, ‘Esau wifuede us to dere.’

c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) 6459 Þo adde hii boþe iwiued wel.

1340 Ayenbite (1866) 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.’

c1350 in London Mediaeval Stud. (1951) 2 45 (MED) I may noust wyne [read wyue] and þriue al in a ȝere.

a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1865) I. 263 Þey..kepeþ besiliche here children, and suffreth hem nouȝt to wyfe wiþ ynne foure and twenty ȝere.

a1400 (c1250) Floris & Blauncheflur (Egerton) (1966) l. 318 (MED) Ȝif þow þat maide forgete woldest, After oure reed wyf þow sholdest.

c1405 (c1395) G. Chaucer Clerk's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 173 Ther as myn herte is set ther wol I wyue.

c1450 (a1449) J. Lydgate Minor Poems (1934) ii. 821 (MED) Ner he that ioyeth to wyueth [perh. read wyue] hym on a wich..Ner he also that houndeth hym on a bich..None of all these..may no while endure.

c1475 Wisdom (Folger) (1969) l. 663 Wndyrstondynge. We haue þat nedyt vs, so thryve I. Wyll. And yff þat I care, neuer wyve I.

a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. xii. 110 It is sayde full ryfe, ‘A man may not wyfe And also thryfe, And all in a yere.’

1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue i. xi. sig. Diii^v It is harde to wiue and thriue both in a yere.

1606 J. Marston Parasitaster v. sig. H4 Goe thy waies & wiue with whome thou wilt for my part.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Taming of Shrew (1623) i. ii. 55 I haue thrust my selfe into this maze, Happily to wiue and thriue, as best I may.

1662 M. W. Marriage Broaker Prol. sig. *6^v, in Gratiæ Theatrales His first-fetch'd project how again to thrive, Is cast about how richly he may Wive.

1729 J. Mitchell Poems Several Occasions II. 298 He..having worn out half his Mettle, And known what 'tis to Wive and settle, Had Courage to defy his Doom, In the Arms of one, of Virgin Bloom.

1738 J. Bancks Love atones Little Crimes 13 Paul had not the Heart to wive.

1774 S. Johnson To Mrs. Thrale on completing her 35th Year in R. Anderson Wks. Brit. Poets (1795) XI. 852/2 All who wisely wish to wive.

1802 Welsh Legends 158 Caradoc the Brave..wived with a Saxon princess of extraordinary beauty.

1818 Ld. Byron Beppo lxxxviii. 45 With any other women did you wive?

1888 M. H. Catherwood Romance of Dollard 1889 iv. 38 It is a strain on loyalty when a bachelor has to travel so far to wive himself.

1910 Spirit of Missions Jan. 29/2 I find..boys with their ideal of womankind so raised that they will never be content to wive with girls who are not chaste and domesticated.

1959 F. Manfred Conquering Horse ii. ii. 87 You have wived with a woman and must be purified in a sweat lodge.

1997 S. Douglas Sinner li. 381 Here they had wived and sired their heirs.

a. transitive. Of a man: to marry (a woman).

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > action or fact of marrying > marry [verb (transitive)] > a woman

weda1000

brideOE

spousec1300

wed to warisonc1330

to take to matrimonyc1400

wivec1425

to make (a woman) an honest woman1562

c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) iii. l. 5289 (MED) He of herte & hool entent In hope stood his suster for to wyve.

c1460 (a1449) J. Lydgate Fabula Duorum Mercatorum (Harl.) l. 378 in Minor Poems (1934) ii. 499 (MED) Oon ther was so fair and vertuous..The which this marchaunt..Kept in his hous in purpoos hir to wyve.

1578 G. Whetstone Promos & Cassandra: 1st Pt. ii. iii. sig. Biiij^v He fel through loue, whoe neuer ment, but wiue y^e wight he lou'd.

1592 W. Warner Albions Eng. (rev. ed.) vii. xxxv. 152 He wyu'd a Lady passing faire.

1595 R. Parry Moderatus iii. sig. C3 Her countenance is full of maiestie, replenished with high disdain, not contented to be woed, much lesse to be wiued by the statelyest Lord of all Liguria.

1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice i. ii. 128 I had rather he should shriue mee then wiue mee.

1675 T. Hobbes tr. Homer Odysses ii. 18 Many other Ladies we could wive.

1781 R. Jephson Count of Narbonne ii. vii. 30 Were I master, To wive the perfect model of my wish..I would not rove to an ideal form.

1862 G. Meredith Mod. Love xxxv. 67 It is no vulgar nature I have wived.

1898 E. P. Evans Evol. Ethics i. 52 The Magians continued to wive their sisters in conformity to ancient usage.

1957 E. Dahlberg Sorrows of Priapus 6 One should wive an unsociable she-dragon, or a sloven who won't sit.

1989 Sunday Times (Nexis) 9 July Cybula's daughter Laska is wived by King Rudy.

2005 S. M. Stevens Lightning & Fire vii. 64 How many women have you wived, Barak ben Abinoam?

b. transitive. In passive. Of a man: to be married to a woman; to be provided with a wife. Occasionally with to, with, specifying the woman. Also figurative of a thing: to be united or coupled with another. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > match-making > match [verb (transitive)] > obtain wife for

wivea1535

the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fact or action of being joined or joining > join (together) [verb (transitive)] > couple or yoke together

couplec1330

twinc1394

yokea1400

accouple1548

conjugate1570

ingeminate1609

incouple1611

jugate1623

adjugate1730

wive1886

a1535 T. More Hist. Richard III in Wks. (1557) 59/2 Smal pleasure taketh a man of al y^t euer he hath beside, yf he bee wiued against his appetite.

1583 B. Melbancke Philotimus (new ed.) sig. Xiij^v They are euill horsed, and worse wiued, that ride on coltes & marrie younge giglittes.

1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 i. ii. 52 I bought him in Paules, and heele buy me a horse in Smithfield, and I could get me but a wife in the stewes, I were man'd, horsde, and wiu'd.

1609 W. Shakespeare Pericles xxii. 10 He is promisde to be wiued To faire Marina.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) ii. i. 61 Mon. Is your Generall wiu'd? Cas. Most fortunately, he hath atchieu'd a maide, That parragons description.

1670 J. Milton Hist. Brit. iii. 113 She..won so much upon his fancy, though already wiv'd, as to demand her in mariage.

1749 E. Haywood Epist. for Ladies I. ii. xviii. 77 All my Friends have had so little of my Company since I have been wived.

1767 B. Thornton tr. Plautus Miser i. v, in B. Thornton et al. tr. Plautus Comedies II. 180 Lookye, my good sister, If you will have me wiv'd, it shall be.

1780 T. Pasley Jrnl. 15 Apr. in Private Sea Jrnls. (1931) 79 He was..greatly altered for the worse—I will not pretend to divine the cause, tho' I believe I might say being Wifed.

1820 W. Scott Monastery III. xii. 329 I promise you..that young Bennygask shall be richly wived.

a1832 G. Crabbe Poet. Wks. (1834) V. 279 His craft contrived To get the Priest with expedition wived.

1886 New Princeton Rev. Mar. 154 The thoughts, wived with words above their own level, are always on their good behavior.

1893 R. L. Stevenson Island Nights' Entertainm. 212 That was why he had been housed, and fed, and wived, and liberated from all work.

1908 E. A. Ross Social Psychol. xiv. 270 The first settlers were wived with forlorn orphan girls.

2002 L. Biggle Chronocide Mission 114 He had lost his family in a fire when he was still a young man, and he had never been wived again nor wanted to be.

†c. transitive. To provide (a man) with a wife; to obtain a wife for (a man). Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > match-making > match [verb (transitive)] > provide with husband or wife

fere1632

wive1851

1851 W. B. MacCabe Bertha III. xiv. 376 I [sc. Henry] can do more strange things than unwive myself, and wive you.

†a. transitive (reflexive). Of a woman: to marry a man; to become the wife of a man. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > action or fact of marrying > marry [verb (transitive)] > a man

wive1572

wive1603

1572 in C. Innes Black Bk. Taymouth (1855) 415 It sall not be lesum to hir to vyue hir self in mariage witht ony uther efter his deceis.

a1654 A. Grosse Buddings & Blossomings Old Truths (1656) 303 The woman that wiveth her selfe in wedlock, putteth off her menstruous and unseemly rayment.

1914 T. Hardy Satires of Circumstance 190 She lives no more a maid, But has vowed and wived herself to one who blessed the ground she trod To and from his scene of ministry.

b. transitive. In passive. Of a woman: to be married to a man. Also with to, with, specifying the man.

ΚΠ

1602 T. Dekker Blurt Master-Constable sig. E4 A womans onely desire is to haue the raines in her owne white hand; your chiefe practise (the very same day that you are wiued) must be to get hold of these raines.

1723 Rape of Bride iii. 33 They at th' appointed Place arriv'd, Where she, in Consequence was—wiv'd.

1848 E. Bulwer-Lytton King Arthur I. ii. lxv. 77 ‘Wived to my son, the witch will soon be steady!’ ‘Wived to your son?—she is a wife already!’

1879 A. H. Keane tr. A. Rosenberg in tr. Early Teutonic, Ital. & French Masters 144 It was not to be suffered that Christian folk should be wived with them [sc. two brothers].

1900 Argonaut 17 Dec. 4/1 He had twice been married, both luckless spouses dying from the pure misery of being wived to him.

1919 D. Byrne Strangers' Banquet xii. 129 She was wived to John Keogh, of the Keogh shipyards.

2014 L. Leveen Juliet's Nurse xii. 257 When you're wived to a worthy man, you'll want no more fashion than to keep him faithful.

c. transitive. Of a woman: to marry (a man); to become the wife of (a man). Also in extended use of a female animal.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > action or fact of marrying > marry [verb (transitive)] > a man

wive1572

wive1603

1603 J. Davies Microcosmos 38 So shee..our Principalitie, Will kisse thy feete, and be (halfe dead) reviv'd, If such an honyed Husband she had wiv'd.

1617 J. Davies Wits Bedlam sig. F3^v The noblest Lady..Will wiue a Mony-Bag, if huge, and full.

1626 G. Sandys tr. Ovid Metamorphosis ix. 175 So haue I seene two Buls together close; The fairest Cow in all the pasture chose To wiue the Victor.

1794 M. Wollstonecraft Let. 30 Dec. (2003) 275 Do not think of Sir John Brute, for I do not mean to wife you.

1812 G. Crabbe Tales xii. 220 Serv'd by that Villain—by this Fury wiv'd—What fate is mine!

1912 D. Evans Discords 30 She will look on me As a young bride regards the man she wives When she begins to grasp his inmost self.

1998 G. Greeno Sunderlies Seeking iv. 326 I give Holly cattle, she wives me, and we keep the cattle in the family!

†4. intransitive. Of a female animal: to mate with another animal. Obsolete. rare.

ΚΠ

1891 C. E. Norton tr. Dante Divine Comedy I. i. 100 Many are the animals with which she [sc. a she-wolf] wives [It. a cui sammoglia].

a. transitive. Of a woman: to act or behave as a wife to (a man). rare.

ΚΠ

1932 C. Sandburg Mary Lincoln 73 We know from the 1848 letters of Lincoln and his wife that he was husbanding their resources and that she ‘wifed’ him.

1996 I. D. Yalom Lying on Couch (1997) ii. 54 I've mothered him, wifed him, sacrificed for him. And given up other men for him.

b. intransitive. Of a woman: to act or behave as a wife.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > married person > married woman > be or become married woman [verb (intransitive)] > act as a wife

to wive it1583

wive1977

1977 in S. Ruddick & P. Daniels Working it Out 62 I wived and mothered, weaned my son, and become pregnant again.

2011 E. P. Freeman Grace for Good Girl ii. 30 I wanted to wife perfectly and nest perfectly and be a woman who knew what she wanted.

2012 N.Y.Times (Nexis) 21 Oct. 48 Ono wived by letting husbands go; she mothered her daughter by letting her go.

Phrases

to wive it.

†a. Of a woman: to be a wife; to act as a wife; to play the wife. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > action or fact of marrying > marry [verb (intransitive)] > of a man

to wed (a woman) to wifea1000

brideOE

i-wivec1000

wiveOE

to wed (a) wife1297

to lead (a bride) to the altar, to church1530

to wive it1583

society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > married person > married woman > be or become married woman [verb (intransitive)] > act as a wife

to wive it1583

wive1977

1583 B. Melbancke Philotimus (new ed.) sig. Ej^v 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?

1599 H. Porter Pleasant Hist. Two Angrie Women of Abington sig. D2^v I should Wife it as fine as any woman could.

1600 T. Lodge in Englands Helicon sig. P.2 Heigh hoe the Sheepheard sayd, Ile make thee wiue it gentle Mayde.

1669 W. Wycherley Hero & Leander in Burlesque 9 Hows'ere Love, and Lover did contrive it, The cunning willful Widow did not wive it, Unless she practis'd secret Matrimony.

†b. To obtain a wife for. Obsolete. rare.

ΚΠ

1608 J. Day Humour out of Breath sig. B3 Oct... Ile one day get, A husband for thee... Flo... Wiue it for them [sc. my brothers], you shall not husband me.

c. Of a man: to marry; to take a wife. Now rare.In later use often with echoes of quot. a1616.

ΚΠ

a1616 W. Shakespeare Taming of Shrew (1623) i. ii. 74 I come to wiue it wealthily in Padua.

1744 H. Brooke Sparrow & Dove in E. Moore Fables Females Sex xiv. 100 But pray, Sir, how do you contrive it? Do those of your world never wive it?

1816 I. Styrke Euripedes's Alcestis Burlesqued 10 'Tis plain beyond dispute that no man E'er wived it with so good a woman.

1852 Daily National Intelligencer (Washington) 8 Sept. Lamoriciere can well do without a pension. He ‘wived it wealthily’ in the hey-day of his glory.

1903 P. MacKaye Canterbury Pilgrims iii. 153 I am a blunt knight who, on Satan's heel, Hath rode it and strode it, wenched it, wived it, and knived it..till..I be a blunt and rough but honest soldier.

1971 W. Gilles tr. S. Brant Ship of Fools lii. 129 If a man so badly wive it, His happiness will not survive it.

1993 B. Gottlieb Family in Western World 92 The appalling behavior of Petruchio in The Taming of the Shrew..was apparently expected of those who wived it wealthily as well as those who wived it poorly.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	wive
释义	wivev. Brit. /wʌɪv/, U.S. /waɪv/ Forms: early Old English gewiifad (past participle), Old English wifian, early Middle English iwiwed (past participle), early Middle English wyui, Middle English wifue, Middle English wyf, Middle English wyfe, Middle English wyffe, Middle English wyne (transmission error), Middle English wyuy, Middle English wywe, Middle English–1500s wyue, Middle English–1600s wiue, Middle English–1600s wyve, 1500s 1700s 1900s– wife ( Brit. /wʌɪf/, U.S. /waɪf/), 1600s– wive; also Scottish pre-1700 vyue, pre-1700 wyfe. Origin: A word inherited from Germanic. Etymon: wife n. Etymology: Cognate with or formed similarly to Old Frisian wīvia (West Frisian wiivje ), Middle Dutch wīven (Dutch wijven ), Middle Low German w̄iven , Middle High German wīben < the Germanic base of wife n. In later use (especially in form wife) also independently < wife n.Original intervocalic -f- was regularly voiced in Old English (although spelt with f in accordance with Old English spelling conventions); such forms are continued in Middle English and later forms in -v- ; compare e.g. thieve v. (beside thief n.) and see discussion at wife n. Later forms in -f- show the influence of the noun. In Old English the prefixed form gewīfian i-wive v. is also attested. Now somewhat archaic. 1. intransitive. Of a man: to marry; to take a wife. Also with †on, with, specifying the woman married. Also formerly transitive (reflexive) in same sense. See also to wive it ( Phrases c).Often paired, in proverbial phrases, with thrive. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > action or fact of marrying > marry [verb (intransitive)] > of a man to wed (a woman) to wifea1000 brideOE i-wivec1000 wiveOE to wed (a) wife1297 to lead (a bride) to the altar, to church1530 to wive it1583 OE Ælfric Let. to Wulfsige (Corpus Cambr.) in B. Fehr Die Hirtenbriefe Ælfrics (1914) 6 He ne moste swaþeah butan æne wifigan, ne he ne moste on wydewum wifigan ne on aworpenum wife. lOE King Ælfred tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (Bodl.) (2009) I. xi. 261 Manige habbað genog gesælilice gewifod, ac for bearnleste eallne þone welan..hi lætað fræmdum to brucanne. c1225 (?c1200) St. Juliana (Royal) 76 He..ne schal wiuen on me, wiue þer his wil is. ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 228 Iudas..wiuede o thamar. a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 1588 Quad rebecca to hire were, ‘Esau wifuede us to dere.’ c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) 6459 Þo adde hii boþe iwiued wel. 1340 Ayenbite (1866) 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.’ c1350 in London Mediaeval Stud. (1951) 2 45 (MED) I may noust wyne [read wyue] and þriue al in a ȝere. a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1865) I. 263 Þey..kepeþ besiliche here children, and suffreth hem nouȝt to wyfe wiþ ynne foure and twenty ȝere. a1400 (c1250) Floris & Blauncheflur (Egerton) (1966) l. 318 (MED) Ȝif þow þat maide forgete woldest, After oure reed wyf þow sholdest. c1405 (c1395) G. Chaucer Clerk's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 173 Ther as myn herte is set ther wol I wyue. c1450 (a1449) J. Lydgate Minor Poems (1934) ii. 821 (MED) Ner he that ioyeth to wyueth [perh. read wyue] hym on a wich..Ner he also that houndeth hym on a bich..None of all these..may no while endure. c1475 Wisdom (Folger) (1969) l. 663 Wndyrstondynge. We haue þat nedyt vs, so thryve I. Wyll. And yff þat I care, neuer wyve I. a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. xii. 110 It is sayde full ryfe, ‘A man may not wyfe And also thryfe, And all in a yere.’ 1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue i. xi. sig. Diii^v It is harde to wiue and thriue both in a yere. 1606 J. Marston Parasitaster v. sig. H4 Goe thy waies & wiue with whome thou wilt for my part. a1616 W. Shakespeare Taming of Shrew (1623) i. ii. 55 I haue thrust my selfe into this maze, Happily to wiue and thriue, as best I may. View more context for this quotation 1662 M. W. Marriage Broaker Prol. sig. 6^v, in Gratiæ Theatrales* His first-fetch'd project how again to thrive, Is cast about how richly he may Wive. 1729 J. Mitchell Poems Several Occasions II. 298 He..having worn out half his Mettle, And known what 'tis to Wive and settle, Had Courage to defy his Doom, In the Arms of one, of Virgin Bloom. 1738 J. Bancks Love atones Little Crimes 13 Paul had not the Heart to wive. 1774 S. Johnson To Mrs. Thrale on completing her 35th Year in R. Anderson Wks. Brit. Poets (1795) XI. 852/2 All who wisely wish to wive. 1802 Welsh Legends 158 Caradoc the Brave..wived with a Saxon princess of extraordinary beauty. 1818 Ld. Byron Beppo lxxxviii. 45 With any other women did you wive? 1888 M. H. Catherwood Romance of Dollard 1889 iv. 38 It is a strain on loyalty when a bachelor has to travel so far to wive himself. 1910 Spirit of Missions Jan. 29/2 I find..boys with their ideal of womankind so raised that they will never be content to wive with girls who are not chaste and domesticated. 1959 F. Manfred Conquering Horse ii. ii. 87 You have wived with a woman and must be purified in a sweat lodge. 1997 S. Douglas Sinner li. 381 Here they had wived and sired their heirs. 2. a. transitive. Of a man: to marry (a woman). ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > action or fact of marrying > marry [verb (transitive)] > a woman weda1000 brideOE spousec1300 wed to warisonc1330 to take to matrimonyc1400 wivec1425 to make (a woman) an honest woman1562 c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) iii. l. 5289 (MED) He of herte & hool entent In hope stood his suster for to wyve. c1460 (a1449) J. Lydgate Fabula Duorum Mercatorum (Harl.) l. 378 in Minor Poems (1934) ii. 499 (MED) Oon ther was so fair and vertuous..The which this marchaunt..Kept in his hous in purpoos hir to wyve. 1578 G. Whetstone Promos & Cassandra: 1st Pt. ii. iii. sig. Biiij^v He fel through loue, whoe neuer ment, but wiue y^e wight he lou'd. 1592 W. Warner Albions Eng. (rev. ed.) vii. xxxv. 152 He wyu'd a Lady passing faire. 1595 R. Parry Moderatus iii. sig. C3 Her countenance is full of maiestie, replenished with high disdain, not contented to be woed, much lesse to be wiued by the statelyest Lord of all Liguria. 1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice i. ii. 128 I had rather he should shriue mee then wiue mee. View more context for this quotation 1675 T. Hobbes tr. Homer Odysses ii. 18 Many other Ladies we could wive. 1781 R. Jephson Count of Narbonne ii. vii. 30 Were I master, To wive the perfect model of my wish..I would not rove to an ideal form. 1862 G. Meredith Mod. Love xxxv. 67 It is no vulgar nature I have wived. 1898 E. P. Evans Evol. Ethics i. 52 The Magians continued to wive their sisters in conformity to ancient usage. 1957 E. Dahlberg Sorrows of Priapus 6 One should wive an unsociable she-dragon, or a sloven who won't sit. 1989 Sunday Times (Nexis) 9 July Cybula's daughter Laska is wived by King Rudy. 2005 S. M. Stevens Lightning & Fire vii. 64 How many women have you wived, Barak ben Abinoam? b. transitive. In passive. Of a man: to be married to a woman; to be provided with a wife. Occasionally with to, with, specifying the woman. Also figurative of a thing: to be united or coupled with another. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > match-making > match [verb (transitive)] > obtain wife for wivea1535 the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fact or action of being joined or joining > join (together) [verb (transitive)] > couple or yoke together couplec1330 twinc1394 yokea1400 accouple1548 conjugate1570 ingeminate1609 incouple1611 jugate1623 adjugate1730 wive1886 a1535 T. More Hist. Richard III in Wks. (1557) 59/2 Smal pleasure taketh a man of al y^t euer he hath beside, yf he bee wiued against his appetite. 1583 B. Melbancke Philotimus (new ed.) sig. Xiij^v They are euill horsed, and worse wiued, that ride on coltes & marrie younge giglittes. 1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 i. ii. 52 I bought him in Paules, and heele buy me a horse in Smithfield, and I could get me but a wife in the stewes, I were man'd, horsde, and wiu'd. View more context for this quotation 1609 W. Shakespeare Pericles xxii. 10 He is promisde to be wiued To faire Marina. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) ii. i. 61 Mon. Is your Generall wiu'd? Cas. Most fortunately, he hath atchieu'd a maide, That parragons description. View more context for this quotation 1670 J. Milton Hist. Brit. iii. 113 She..won so much upon his fancy, though already wiv'd, as to demand her in mariage. 1749 E. Haywood Epist. for Ladies I. ii. xviii. 77 All my Friends have had so little of my Company since I have been wived. 1767 B. Thornton tr. Plautus Miser i. v, in B. Thornton et al. tr. Plautus Comedies II. 180 Lookye, my good sister, If you will have me wiv'd, it shall be. 1780 T. Pasley Jrnl. 15 Apr. in Private Sea Jrnls. (1931) 79 He was..greatly altered for the worse—I will not pretend to divine the cause, tho' I believe I might say being Wifed. 1820 W. Scott Monastery III. xii. 329 I promise you..that young Bennygask shall be richly wived. a1832 G. Crabbe Poet. Wks. (1834) V. 279 His craft contrived To get the Priest with expedition wived. 1886 New Princeton Rev. Mar. 154 The thoughts, wived with words above their own level, are always on their good behavior. 1893 R. L. Stevenson Island Nights' Entertainm. 212 That was why he had been housed, and fed, and wived, and liberated from all work. 1908 E. A. Ross Social Psychol. xiv. 270 The first settlers were wived with forlorn orphan girls. 2002 L. Biggle Chronocide Mission 114 He had lost his family in a fire when he was still a young man, and he had never been wived again nor wanted to be. †c. transitive. To provide (a man) with a wife; to obtain a wife for (a man). Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > match-making > match [verb (transitive)] > provide with husband or wife fere1632 wive1851 1851 W. B. MacCabe Bertha III. xiv. 376 I [sc. Henry] can do more strange things than unwive myself, and wive you. 3. †a. transitive (reflexive). Of a woman: to marry a man; to become the wife of a man. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > action or fact of marrying > marry [verb (transitive)] > a man wive1572 wive1603 1572 in C. Innes Black Bk. Taymouth (1855) 415 It sall not be lesum to hir to vyue hir self in mariage witht ony uther efter his deceis. a1654 A. Grosse Buddings & Blossomings Old Truths (1656) 303 The woman that wiveth her selfe in wedlock, putteth off her menstruous and unseemly rayment. 1914 T. Hardy Satires of Circumstance 190 She lives no more a maid, But has vowed and wived herself to one who blessed the ground she trod To and from his scene of ministry. b. transitive. In passive. Of a woman: to be married to a man. Also with to, with, specifying the man. ΚΠ 1602 T. Dekker Blurt Master-Constable sig. E4 A womans onely desire is to haue the raines in her owne white hand; your chiefe practise (the very same day that you are wiued) must be to get hold of these raines. 1723 Rape of Bride iii. 33 They at th' appointed Place arriv'd, Where she, in Consequence was—wiv'd. 1848 E. Bulwer-Lytton King Arthur I. ii. lxv. 77 ‘Wived to my son, the witch will soon be steady!’ ‘Wived to your son?—she is a wife already!’ 1879 A. H. Keane tr. A. Rosenberg in tr. Early Teutonic, Ital. & French Masters 144 It was not to be suffered that Christian folk should be wived with them [sc. two brothers]. 1900 Argonaut 17 Dec. 4/1 He had twice been married, both luckless spouses dying from the pure misery of being wived to him. 1919 D. Byrne Strangers' Banquet xii. 129 She was wived to John Keogh, of the Keogh shipyards. 2014 L. Leveen Juliet's Nurse xii. 257 When you're wived to a worthy man, you'll want no more fashion than to keep him faithful. c. transitive. Of a woman: to marry (a man); to become the wife of (a man). Also in extended use of a female animal. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > action or fact of marrying > marry [verb (transitive)] > a man wive1572 wive1603 1603 J. Davies Microcosmos 38 So shee..our Principalitie, Will kisse thy feete, and be (halfe dead) reviv'd, If such an honyed Husband she had wiv'd. 1617 J. Davies Wits Bedlam sig. F3^v The noblest Lady..Will wiue a Mony-Bag, if huge, and full. 1626 G. Sandys tr. Ovid Metamorphosis ix. 175 So haue I seene two Buls together close; The fairest Cow in all the pasture chose To wiue the Victor. 1794 M. Wollstonecraft Let. 30 Dec. (2003) 275 Do not think of Sir John Brute, for I do not mean to wife you. 1812 G. Crabbe Tales xii. 220 Serv'd by that Villain—by this Fury wiv'd—What fate is mine! 1912 D. Evans Discords 30 She will look on me As a young bride regards the man she wives When she begins to grasp his inmost self. 1998 G. Greeno Sunderlies Seeking iv. 326 I give Holly cattle, she wives me, and we keep the cattle in the family! †4. intransitive. Of a female animal: to mate with another animal. Obsolete. rare. ΚΠ 1891 C. E. Norton tr. Dante Divine Comedy I. i. 100 Many are the animals with which she [sc. a she-wolf] wives [It. a cui sammoglia]. 5. a. transitive. Of a woman: to act or behave as a wife to (a man). rare. ΚΠ 1932 C. Sandburg Mary Lincoln 73 We know from the 1848 letters of Lincoln and his wife that he was husbanding their resources and that she ‘wifed’ him. 1996 I. D. Yalom Lying on Couch (1997) ii. 54 I've mothered him, wifed him, sacrificed for him. And given up other men for him. b. intransitive. Of a woman: to act or behave as a wife. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > married person > married woman > be or become married woman [verb (intransitive)] > act as a wife to wive it1583 wive1977 1977 in S. Ruddick & P. Daniels Working it Out 62 I wived and mothered, weaned my son, and become pregnant again. 2011 E. P. Freeman Grace for Good Girl ii. 30 I wanted to wife perfectly and nest perfectly and be a woman who knew what she wanted. 2012 N.Y.Times (Nexis) 21 Oct. 48 Ono wived by letting husbands go; she mothered her daughter by letting her go. Phrases to wive it. †a. Of a woman: to be a wife; to act as a wife; to play the wife. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > action or fact of marrying > marry [verb (intransitive)] > of a man to wed (a woman) to wifea1000 brideOE i-wivec1000 wiveOE to wed (a) wife1297 to lead (a bride) to the altar, to church1530 to wive it1583 society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > married person > married woman > be or become married woman [verb (intransitive)] > act as a wife to wive it1583 wive1977 1583 B. Melbancke Philotimus (new ed.) sig. Ej^v 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? 1599 H. Porter Pleasant Hist. Two Angrie Women of Abington sig. D2^v I should Wife it as fine as any woman could. 1600 T. Lodge in Englands Helicon sig. P.2 Heigh hoe the Sheepheard sayd, Ile make thee wiue it gentle Mayde. 1669 W. Wycherley Hero & Leander in Burlesque 9 Hows'ere Love, and Lover did contrive it, The cunning willful Widow did not wive it, Unless she practis'd secret Matrimony. †b. To obtain a wife for. Obsolete. rare. ΚΠ 1608 J. Day Humour out of Breath sig. B3 Oct... Ile one day get, A husband for thee... Flo... Wiue it for them [sc. my brothers], you shall not husband me. c. Of a man: to marry; to take a wife. Now rare.In later use often with echoes of quot. a1616. ΚΠ a1616 W. Shakespeare Taming of Shrew (1623) i. ii. 74 I come to wiue it wealthily in Padua. View more context for this quotation 1744 H. Brooke Sparrow & Dove in E. Moore Fables Females Sex xiv. 100 But pray, Sir, how do you contrive it? Do those of your world never wive it? 1816 I. Styrke Euripedes's Alcestis Burlesqued 10 'Tis plain beyond dispute that no man E'er wived it with so good a woman. 1852 Daily National Intelligencer (Washington) 8 Sept. Lamoriciere can well do without a pension. He ‘wived it wealthily’ in the hey-day of his glory. 1903 P. MacKaye Canterbury Pilgrims iii. 153 I am a blunt knight who, on Satan's heel, Hath rode it and strode it, wenched it, wived it, and knived it..till..I be a blunt and rough but honest soldier. 1971 W. Gilles tr. S. Brant Ship of Fools lii. 129 If a man so badly wive it, His happiness will not survive it. 1993 B. Gottlieb Family in Western World 92 The appalling behavior of Petruchio in The Taming of the Shrew..was apparently expected of those who wived it wealthily as well as those who wived it poorly. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < v.OE
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