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gifted, ppl. a.|ˈgɪftɪd|
[f. gift v. + -ed2.]
1. Endowed with gifts (see gift n. 6); talented.
1644Minutes Westm. Assembly (1874) 38 It is one thing to say a gifted man may preach, but another thing to say a ruling elder..by virtue of his office may do it. 1677W. Hubbard Narrative (1865) II. 201 Such of the Women as were gifted at knitting and sewing [etc.]. 1711G. Cary Phys. Phylactick 241 This is a Text that the Gifted Brethren have often urged. 1794Mathias Purs. Lit. (1798) 212 No patriot weeps, when gifted villains die. 1839A. Gray Lett. (1893) 100 The famous Christopher North..a gifted genius. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) III. 376 The most gifted minds, when they are ill-educated, become the worst. 1892Zangwill Bow Myst. 92 It's a grand thing to be gifted, Tom.
absol.1828Carlyle Misc. (1857) I. 231 Men felt and knew that here also was one of the Gifted! 1850Robertson Serm. Ser. iii. ix. 114 The gifted of their species.
b. said of an utterance and of a frame of mind.
1678Butler Hud. iii. ii. 635 Where had they all their Gifted Phrases, But from our Calamies and Cases? 1850Robertson Serm. Ser. iii. ii. 26 Genius in its most gifted hour.
†2. Given, bestowed. Obs.—1
1671Milton Samson 36 Why was my breeding ordered and prescribed..To grind in brazen fetters under task With this heaven-gifted strength?
Hence ˈgiftedness, the condition, quality, or state of being gifted. Also quasi-concr., a gift.
1660tr. Paracelsus' Archidoxis ii. 149 The things of nature are not so alike graduated as Diseases are, as in relation to the Dose or Guiftedness. 1671Eachard Observ. Answ. Grounds Cont. Clergy 116 Not endued with the sublimest giftednesses of our Separatists. a1734North Lives (1826) III. 312 He was very illiterate, but thought to supply that defect by extraordinary giftedness. 1875H. James R. Hudson ii. 64 Rowland..felt more and more the fascination of what he would have called his giftedness.
Add: ˈgiftedly adv.
1934Webster, Giftedly. 1981N.Y. Times 16 Aug. (Long Island Weekly section) 5/2 Do they eat more giftedly or in a more talented manner? |