taking to wife

Verb

take to wife (third-person singular simple present takes to wife, present participle taking to wife, simple past took to wife, past participle taken to wife)

1. (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

   Synonyms:

   bewife, wife, wive