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† ˈgifture Obs.
Also 6 yefture, 6–7 gifter.
[f. gift v. + -ure.]
1. The action of giving; also the right of giving. Cf. gift n. 1. upon gifture: gratuitously.
1503Will of Lady Hastings in Test. Vetusta II. 452 A faire prymmar, which I had by the yefture of Queen Elizabeth. 1583Stubbes Anat. Abus. ii. (1882) 79 In whome doth the patronage, right, and gifture of these ecclesiastical promotions and benefices consist? 1634W. Wood New Eng. Prosp. ii. (1865) 5 The English will not be so liberall as to furnish them upon gifture.
2. A gift; a prize.
1592W. Wyrley Armorie, Ld. Chandos 63 Willing the gifter to some other wight. 1615R. Cleaver Prov. 48 The wealth of the godly is the peculiar gifture of wisedome.
3. attrib., as gifture-banquet; gifture-ore, a quantity of ore given as a customary due.
1609Holland Amm. Marcell. xix. vi. 12 Solemn doles, or gifture banquets. 1631Star Chamb. Cases (Camden) 90 The Deputy Barre Masters..would not measure their oare unlesse they would pay them their gifter oare. 1632Ibid. 98 There was some given to the Deputy Barre Masters for their paines, and it is called therefore gifter oare. |