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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L. If this be all the prayse you can gyve him, you will no more offend me with tediousnes.
From The Curiosities of Heraldry by Mark Antony Lower
The brede yt I shall gyve / my body it is / for the lyf of the worlde.
From A Ryght Profytable Treatyse Compendiously Drawen Out Of Many and Dyvers Wrytynges Of Holy Men by Thomas Betson
‘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
Then came Raffles with soap and water, and the gyve was wheedled from one wrist, as you withdraw a ring for which the finger has grown too large.
From Raffles, Further Adventures of the Amateur Cracksman by E. W. (Ernest William) Hornung
His clothinge is full thynne; Ye must gyve the knight a lyveray, To lappe his body therein.
From Ballads of Robin Hood and other Outlaws Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Fourth Series by Frank Sidgwick
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
By Romulus, he is all soul, I think; He hath no flesh, and spirit cannot be gyved; Then we have vanquished nothing; he is free, And Martius walks now in captivity.
From Essays — First Series by Ralph Waldo Emerson
"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 Jeffery Farnol
To escape with a lifeless form gyved to his hand was out of the question.
From The Gray Phantom's Return by Herman Landon
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 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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