gyve
Americannoun
verb (used with object)
verb
noun
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Etymology
Origin of gyve
1175–1225; Middle English give < ?
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‘Though ye wolde gyve a thousand more, Yet were ye never the nere; Shal there never be myn heyre Abbot, justice, ne frere.’
From Ballads of Robin Hood and other Outlaws Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Fourth Series by Frank Sidgwick
‘Sith ye wol nat dyne,’ sayde Litell John, ‘I shall gyve you to drinke; And though ye lyve an hundred wynter, On Lytel Johnn ye shall thinke.’
From Ballads of Robin Hood and other Outlaws Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Fourth Series by Frank Sidgwick
Nay, no gyve, no touch, was laid on me!
From The Bacchae of Euripides by Euripedes
And still in the white neat bed I strive Most impotently against that gyve; Being less now than a thought, even, To you alone with your hills and heaven.
From The Collected Poems of Rupert Brooke by Rupert Brooke
God save you good life and honour gyve you God.
From An Introductorie for to Lerne to Read, To Pronounce, and to Speke French Trewly by Giles Du Wés
In half a dozen syllogisms he must have gyved and hand-cuffed himself into blank necessity and mechanic motions.
From The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Henry Nelson Coleridge
They are fettered and gyved by what they have said and done.
From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 11 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Businessmen by Elbert Hubbard
To the proud strong man it has come; whose strong hands shall no more be gyved; to whom boundless unconquered continents lie disclosed.
From The French Revolution by Thomas Carlyle
To escape with a lifeless form gyved to his hand was out of the question.
From The Gray Phantom's Return by Herman Landon
With these fetters I gyved my own hands; Truly I became a much-deceived man.
From More Translations from the Chinese by Arthur Waley
To mourn in plasmic Temple's fold With gyving sod no King can shirk!
From Betelguese A Trip Through Hell by Jean de Esque
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