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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of wive.

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Examples

  • To figure out how they did it ⎯ loved, wived, mothered.

    Creatures: A Memoir 2008

  • By the Almighty, had I known it was this youth who sought me in marriage of my father, I had not rejected him, but had wived with him and enjoyed his loveliness!

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • To thee, Orestes, I betroth my daughter according to the word of Phoebus, and good luck attend thee, a noble wooer nobly wived, and me the parent of thy bride!

    Orestes 2008

  • Ultimately, the recklessness and cover-up mid-wived by the "fog of war" (everything from the friendly fire that killed Pat Tillman to the torture at Abu Ghraib and other atrocities) just magnify the "squaring the error" effect.

    Coleen Rowley: How NOT to Counter Terrorism 2008

  • The Wazir kissed hands and fared forth on his way; while the Sultan and the Prince abode at home in all the solace and the delight of life; and the Fisherman became the richest man of his age, and his daughters wived with Kings, until death came to them.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • To thee, Orestes, I betroth my daughter according to the word of Phoebus, and good luck attend thee, a noble wooer nobly wived, and me the parent of thy bride!

    Orestes 2008

  • It makes perfect sense to me that Gabriel would also be the angel who appeared to the exhausted, anxious shepherds as they mid-wived their lambs.

    The Angel of Incarnation Susan Palwick 2006

  • "As it is a heartbreaking thing to see a handsome man loose-wived, it is a deadly sorrow to behold a foul knave uncuckolded."

    progress... suricattus 2006

  • It makes perfect sense to me that Gabriel would also be the angel who appeared to the exhausted, anxious shepherds as they mid-wived their lambs.

    Archive 2006-12-01 Susan Palwick 2006

  • Assumedly, a law permitting polygamy would be multi-spouse neutral, but most group marriages would still be multi-wived.

    Good Response To Polygamy Argument 2006

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