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third-person singular simple present housewives, present participle housewiving, simple past and past participle housewived
(transitive, especially of women) To manage with skill and economy. quotations examples
Conferred those moneys on the nuns, which since they have well-housewived.The spelling has been modernized.
1655, Thomas Fuller, edited by James Nichols, The Church History of Britain, […], new edition, volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] [James Nichols] for Thomas Tegg and Son, […], published 1837