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unˈgive, v.
[un-2 7, 3. Cf. obs. Flem. ontgheven to fail, Du. (zich)ontgeven to yield, desist.]
1. intr. To give way, to relax; to lose tenacity or firmness. Now dial.
1523Fitzherb. Husb. §25 Make it in greatter hey-cockes, and to stande so one nyght or more, that it maye vngiue and sweate. 1655Fuller Ch. Hist. ii. ii. §40 That Religion which is rather suddenly parched up, then seasonably ripened, doth commonly ungive afterwards. 1670Evelyn in Phil. Trans. V. 1063 When the wheels will not turn round because of the clay and over-much moisture, it is a signe, that 'tis not fit for cultivation, until it ungive, and be dry. c1700in Bell's Anc. Poems (1857) 19 Who thinks that love doth live In beauty's tempting show, Shall find his hopes ungive, And melt in reason's thaw. 1854A. E. Baker Northampt. Gloss. 369 Gingerbread losing its crispness, and salt or any other substance relaxing from the humidity of the atmosphere, are said to ungive. 1881–in Eng. Dial. Dict. s.v. (Lancs., Chesh., Leics., Bedford, Hants).
†2. trans. To relax; to yield or give up. Obs.
1645Lightfoot Comm. Acts vi. 104 It is a daring that deserves castigation in him,..that hee should..deny the puritie of the Greeke text, before hee will ungive any thing of his owne groundlesse opinion. 1655Fuller Hist. Cambr. 118 He was over-frozen, in his Northern Rigour, and could not be thaw'd, to ungive any thing of the rigidnesse of his Discipline. |