take to wife

present singular third person takes to wife · participle present taking to wife · past took to wife · participle past taken to wife

1. transitiveTo 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

   Synonyms: bewife, wife, wive