gyvedadj.
/dʒʌɪvd/ Fastened with gyves; fettered, shackled.
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society > authority > subjection > restraint or restraining > restraint depriving of liberty > binding or fettering > [adjective] > bound, fettered, or shackled > by the feet or legs
gyved1382
leg iron1779
slanged1819
leg-ironed1848
1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Gen. xxxix. 20 [Potiphar] toke Joseph into prysoun, where the gyved men of the kyng weren kept.
1565 T. Cooper Thesaurus Compeditus, fettered, gyued, shackled.
1821 J. Baillie Columbus in Metrical Legends xlii. 10 These gyved limbs will wear their yoke.
1892 Pall Mall Gaz. 29 Sept. 5/2 The practice of arraigning gyved..prisoners in open court..lingered until the time of John Howard.
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adj.1382- melancholiousness
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