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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.
take to wife en · VERB
Meanings
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(transitive) To marry (a specific woman).
Pondering other items, like the path to a Chemical Engineering Ph.D., are Burke Baker, who took to wife one Betty Kimble back there in the Dark Ages, the same month we graduated, at Berkeley; […]
1968 February 13, Thomas B. Coburn, “65”, in John D. Davies, editor, Princeton Alumni Weekly, volume LXVIII, number 17, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 27, column 2:
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take a wife
Synonyms
wife · bewife · wive