gyve
Americannoun
verb (used with object)
verb
noun
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of gyve
1175–1225; Middle English give < ?
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Here was obviously the Junius of democracy, for whom the only effective answer was the gag and gyve.
From William Pitt and the Great War by Rose, John Holland
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 Du Wés, Giles
"Say, rather, to melt the iron links which gyve soul to body," said Clifton, in constrained articulation, through which a moaning undertone seemed ever trying to be heard.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 80, June, 1864 by Various
Item, I gyve and bequeath unto her three sonnes, William Harte, ...
From The Facts About Shakespeare by Nielson, William Allan
Nay, no gyve, no touch, was laid on me!
From The Bacchae of Euripides by Euripedes
"Prithee, good Motley," he questioned, "what should bring so rare a Fool to lie in dungeon fettered and gyved along of innocent rogues and roguish robber?"
From The Geste of Duke Jocelyn by Farnol, Jeffery
Bloom wound a skein round four forkfingers, stretched it, relaxed, and wound it round his troubled double, fourfold, in octave, gyved them fast.
From Ulysses by Joyce, James
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 Carlyle, Thomas
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 Hubbard, Elbert
So many millions of persons, all gyved, and nigh strangled, with formulas; whose Life nevertheless, at least the digestion and hunger of it, was real enough!
From The French Revolution by Carlyle, Thomas
To mourn in plasmic Temple's fold With gyving sod no King can shirk!
From Betelguese A Trip Through Hell by de Esque, Jean
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