| 单词 | god-bairn gift | 
| 释义 | > as lemmasgod-bairn gift   god-bairn gift  n. 		(also god-bairn's gift)	 now historical a present made to a godchild. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > benefice > other financial matters > 			[noun]		 > payment to specific person > to godparents > to godchild god-bairn gift1506 1506–7    in  J. B. Paul Accts. Treasurer Scotl. 		(1901)	 III. 364  				At the cristinnying of James Loganis barne..Item, to the godbarne gift to the samyn. 1535    D. Lindsay Satyre 788  				Quhat salbe my Godbairne gift. 1579    Acts Parl. Scotl. 		(1814)	 III. 164  				The samyne landis beand gevin in godbairne gift to the erle of huntly be þe cardinall. a1600    A. Montgomerie Misc. Poems iv. 24  				Quhy did the gods for godbarne-gift me geive Ambrosian bread? 1673    S. Colvil Grand Impostor Discovered Pref. sig. B2  				The next thing observable, is the God-bairn gift, or the title of Universal Bishop, conferred by Phocas upon Bonefacius third Bishop of Rome. a1691    Visct. Kingston Hist. House Seytoun Contin. 		(1829)	 63  				Queen Mary..gave to him ane godbairne gift, the lands of Pluscalie, in Murray. 1836    in  New Statist. Acct. Scotl. 		(1845)	 X. 118  				These..were commonly said to have been a god bairn gift. 1854    A. Strickland Lives Queens Eng. 		(new ed.)	 V. ii. 57  				Then every ane of them, by order, made their presents as god-bairn gifts. 1983    M. Lee in  I. B. Cowan  & D. Shaw Renaissance & Reformation in Scotl. 170  				Queen Mary, his godmother, gave him the lands of the priory of Pluscarden as a godbairn's gift. < as lemmas | 
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