bewifed

English

Etymology 1

From be- +‎ wife (noun) +‎ -ed (“having”).

Adjective

bewifed (not comparable)

  1. (rare) Having a wife.
    Synonym: wifed
    • 1889 August 31, Jerome [pseudonym], “Lloyd Bryce’s New Book [Romance of an Alter Ego]. Its Occult Features and Literary Skill Create a Sensation.”, in The Dayton Daily Herald, volume XII, number 30, Dayton, Oh., →OCLC, part 2nd, page [3], column 4:
      He fiercely denies that he is George Fitzamble, but there is a trial and the court finds him a married man and charges him with the support of a wife. […] Well, Simoni refuses to have anything to do with Mrs. George Fitzamble, and the newspapers lampoon, and denounce him as an arrant swindler, and an enemy of society. But by this time Edna had managed to interest and even fascinate the bewifed and bewildered bachelor, and he, like a fool, lingers about and and watches her, then falls in love with the syren, only to find that she dislikes him and will have none of his protestations.
    • 1899 February 5, Jack Sawdorf, “Small Shot”, in Chester H[arvey] Rowell, editor, The Fresno Morning Republican, volume XVII, number 31, Fresno, Calif.: The Fresno Republican Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 4, column 3:
      It is all right of course for the pure in heart to ship in carloads of protests against the seating in congress of the polygamous member from the home of the Saints, but if it is left to those members of the lower house who are without sin to cast the unseating ballots, the unduly bewifed Mr. [Brigham Henry] Roberts will remain seated by the largest majority on record.
    • 1942, Robert Grahn, “1937”, in The Stevens Indicator, volume 59, Hoboken, N.J.: Alumni Association of Stevens Institute of Technology, →OCLC, page 32, column 1:
      To get back to our newest naval officer, Ensign Fiedler, who complains bitterly that he has yet to venture beyond the confines of Sheepshead Bay, we hasten to add—in case we’ve never mentioned it before—that he is engaged to Miss Agnes Grant of Warren, Ohio. That leaves only Happy Florea of the ill-fated Birdbrains neither bewifed nor betrothed. Which is fair enough, adds Happy.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:bewifed.

Etymology 2

From bewife +‎ -ed (past-tense suffix).

Verb

bewifed

  1. simple past and past participle of bewife
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