单词 | in a person's gift |
释义 | > as lemmasin (also †of) a person's gift a. The action of giving, an instance of the same; a giving, bestowal. †of gift: as a gift, gratuitously, for nothing; also of free gift. (I would not have it) at a gift (colloquial): at the price of nothing; even as a gift. †of a person's gift: of his giving, as his gift. Also, the power or right of giving, in in (also †of) a person's gift. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > giving > [noun] givec1275 gifta1300 giving13.. donationc1425 gifture1503 rendering1523 donature1629 α. γ. a1300 Cursor Mundi 28760 Þe thrid almus es gift of hand, or elles in word or werk helpand.1357 Lay Folks Catech. 25 Thai had it of goddes giftt at thaire begynnyng.1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Surueyeng xvi. f. 29 It is to be enquered of all ye churches that belong to the lordes gyft, how many there be & where they be, & what they be worthe.1583 C. Hollyband Campo di Fior 109 But canst thou not haue of gifte the filth which is painted on thy handes and necke?1589 C. Ockland in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eminent Literary Men (1843) (Camden) 71 For thei be of my Lorde of Warwikes gyfte.1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene v. x. sig. V6 Therefore these two, her eldest sonnes she sent, To seeke for succour of this Ladies gieft . View more context for this quotation1650 T. Fuller Pisgah-sight of Palestine iii. 359 This floor David bought of Araunah the Jebusite, from whom he would not take it of gift.1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan ii. xxi. 108 When we say a Guift is Free, there is not meant any Liberty of the Guift, but of the Giver.1679–88 in J. Y. Akerman Moneys Secret Services Charles II & James II (1851) (Camden) 27 To Lieut Anthony Heyford, as of free guift 30li. os. od.1692 R. South 12 Serm. I. 547 No man has any Antecedent Right or Claim to that which comes to him by free gift.1785 W. Cowper Let. 31 Dec. (1981) II. 438 A gift of Bedding to the Poor of Olney.1837 B. Disraeli Venetia I. 26 The rich living was in the gift of the Herberts.a1854 H. Reed Lect. Eng. Lit. (1878) iv. 126 Language always makes gift of its best wealth to a great poet.1857 T. Hughes Tom Brown's School Days i. ix. 216 Wouldn't have'em at a gift.1888 J. Bryce Amer. Commonw. II. lxv. 486 The minor appointive offices which lie in his own gift.proverbial.1583 W. Fulke Def. Transl. Script. xv. 403 The prouerb is, what is so free as gift?c1300 K. Alis. (Laud) 4682 What wiþ ȝifte what wiþ queyntise Alle he wan hem to his seruyse. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Trin. Cambr.) l. 5090 Ȝoure sackes shal I fille of ȝift [Vesp. o gift]. c1400 Rom. Rose 3663 I wolde gladly..Have a cos therof freely Of your yeft. 1475 Bk. Noblesse (1860) 22 William..was righte duke of Normandie by yeft of Charlys the symple, king of Fraunce. 1503 in E. Hobhouse Church-wardens' Accts. (1890) 28 Of the yefte of Alsun Abbot a payr of beds of jett. < as lemmas |
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