Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Wive

Wive , intransitive verb

[Anglo-Saxon wīfian, gewīfian. See Wite.]

To marry, as a man; to take a wife.
Wherefore we pray you hastily to wive. — Chaucer

Wive , transitive verb

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. — Shakespeare
2.
To take for a wife; to marry.
I have wived his sister. — Sir W. Scott