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unˈgifted, (ppl.) a.
[un-1 8, 9.]
1. Having no spiritual or intellectual gifts.
1637Ld. Wariston Diary (S.H.S.) 276 Thou knouest thy servant,..hou ungifted, unfit, unready. 1655tr. Sorel's Com. Hist. Francion x. 16 We ought not to believe such an ungifted Prophet as he is. 1712Arbuthnot Hist. John Bull ii. i. 7 A hot-headed, ungifted, unedifying Preacher. 1850Robertson Serm. Ser. iii. iii. Introd. (1857) 33 The Eternal Word spoke..to those who were uninspired and ungifted. 1891Farrar Darkn. & Dawn xvi, While he was still young and beautiful, and not ungifted.
b. Not gifted with something.
1831Palmerston in Francis Opinions & Policy (1852) 176 The conduct of a child ungifted with reason. 1861A. Beresford-Hope Eng. Cathedr. 19th C. ii. 41 The man ungifted with architectural tact.
2. Having received no gifts; giftless.
a1631Donne Lett. (1639) A 4 b, Pure Virtue; an ungifted Deity..without Oblation, Altar, or Temple. 1791Cowper Odyss. xv. 258 He..will himself enforce Thy longer stay, That thou may'st not depart Ungifted. 1822Milman Mart. Antioch 19 The sad priests of all our Gods do sit Round their cold altars and ungifted shrines. 1887Bowen æneid v. 304 This festival day None of the number around me shall go ungifted away.
Hence unˈgiftedness.
1646Mayne Serm. agst. False Proph. 35 The ungiftednes of the persons, who have drawn this reproofe upon us. |