yeven - Middle English Compendium\nForms yēven v. Also yeve, yevene, yewen, yef(e, yeffe, yeave, yive(n, yif(e, yiffe, yove, yofe, yven(e, yf, ʒeve(n, ʒewe, ʒef(e(n, ʒeffe, ʒeif, ʒive(n(e, ʒif(e(n, ʒiffe, ʒe(n, geve(n, gef(e, geffe, geife, give(n, giwe, gif(e(n(e, giffe, gief, gen, gin, eve(n, ive, h)if & ? yẹ̄ve, ʒẹ̄ve, (N) gẹ̄ve & (chiefly early) ʒieve(n(e, ʒief(e(n, (early) ʒevan, ʒefve, ʒifven, ʒifæ(n, gifan, gievan, hyef, (early SWM) ʒeove(n(e, (early infl.) givende & (?errors) ʒon, ʒuue, ju, (errors) ʒeem, ʒyuer; sg.1 yeve, etc. & (?error) ʒivis, (errors) ʒeuen, ʒiuen, ʒifuen; sg.2 yevest, etc. & yefst, ʒefste, ʒifst, ges; sg.3 yeveth, etc. & yewet, yefth, yifth, ʒevit, ʒevid, ʒefth(e, ʒeft, ʒifth, gifves, gith, (N) ges, gis(e & (early) ʒived, ʒifæð, ʒiefð, gifð & (?error) ʒif, (error) geuees; pl. (incl. impv.) yeveth, etc. & yevet, ʒevi(ʒ)t, ʒeftis, githe, gis, (16th cent.) giffon, ges, (early) yeft & (error) ʒeuyf; p.sg. yef, yeave, yeaf, yave, yaf(e, yaffe, yove, yf, ʒeve, ʒef, ʒave, ʒaf(e, ʒaffe, ʒahf, ʒaufe, ʒove, ʒof, geve, gef(e, gav(e, gaf(e, gaffe, gove, gof, af, (N) gaif, (early) ʒeave, ʒeaf, ʒæf(e, ʒaif, ʒiaf, geaf, gæf, giaf, iæf, iaf & ʒevede, ʒevid, giwid, (early) gived; pl. yeve, yave(n, yaf(e, yove(n, ʒeve(n, ʒefen, ʒeif, ʒave(n, ʒavun, ʒaf(e, ʒove, ʒovin, ʒofen, geven, gefe, gave(n, gaf(e, gafin, gaffe, gove(n & (early) geaven, geafen, geafon, iæfen, iaven, iafen, (SWM) ʒefven, ʒeoven, (Orm.) ʒæfenn, gæfenn; ppl. yeve(n, yevine, yevone, yewe, yef(en, yeffin, yeaven, yeoven, yive(n, yif, yove(n(e, yowe, yowin, yofe, yoeven, ʒeve(n, ʒevun, ʒewin, ʒef(un, ʒeffe, ʒeife, ʒive(n, ʒif(e(n, ʒiffen, ʒove(n, ʒovun(e, ʒovn, ʒowin, ʒofen, ʒoffe, ʒon, geve(n, gevon, gewin, gef(en, geffe, geffin(ne, give(n, givine, givon, giwe, giwin, gif(e(n(e, gifun, giffen(e, gifhen, gove(n, gowine, gofe, gen(e, (N) gifein, gin(e, gien, (NEM) gein, (16th cent.) yffen, gon, (early) ʒefve & yeft, yoved & (?error) ʒeifi, (errors) govym, yolvyne. Contractions: yemme, ʒemme (= yeve me); gevet (= yeve hit); ʒifstow (= yevest thou); gafs (= yef us); yovenet (= yeven hit); giffner (= yeven hire).\nEtymology From two sources: (1) OE gifan, giefan, gefan, gyfan; p. geaf, gæf, gaf; pl. gēafon, gēfon; ppl. gifen, gyfen & (2) ON: cp. OI gefa, OSwed. gifa, ODan. givæ.\nNote: Cp. ayeven v., foryeven v., iyeven v. (Suppl.), unyeven v.\n(a) To give alms, gifts, etc., give something voluntarily, make a gift; give generously (to sb.); give alms, gifts, etc. (to sb.) in response to a request; also, in partitive construction: ~ of, give of (one’s means, goods, etc. to sb.); (b) to give (sth. material) gratuitously and unconditionally, transfer ownership or possession of (an object, property, etc.) without recompense, give (alms, a gift, etc.), bestow;—usu. with indirect obj.; also iron.; ~ awei, give (sth.) away; (c) to convey ownership of (sth. material to sb.) in response to a request or plea, grant; give (sb. a requested gift); (d) to convey ownership of (sth. material) for the accomplishment of a specified purpose or cause, contribute; donate (money, a gift, etc. to a religious house, God, etc.); (e) to convey ownership of (sth. material, sth. to sb.) in accord with or in violation of a bequest; distribute (an estate); also, alienate (property from the heirs or possessor); (f) to assign future ownership or disposition of (goods, property, etc.) by testament; bequeath (sth. to sb.); also, promise (sb. sth.) [1st & 2nd quots.]; also in fig. context [quot. a1500(?a1450)]; (g) to reward (an inferior) with (sth., a woman), give (sb. sth.) in response to some service or good deed, in the hope of cultivating fame, etc.; also used iron.; also, reward (sb.) for services rendered (as distinct from rendering payment owed) [quot. c1300(c1250)]; ~ mede (reward); (h) to supply (sth.) as a dowry; dower (sb.) with (sth.); (i) to give (sb. sth. as an award or a prize), award (sb. a prize); (j) in proverbs and prov. expressions.\nShow 131 Quotations Hide 131 Quotations\nc1175 Orm.(Jun 1)12190 : Þe deofell…nass hiss mahhte nohht o þa To ʒifenn ne to sellenn.\na1200 Trin.Hom.(Trin-C B.14.52)9 : Gief þe nedfulle.\na1225(c1200) Vices & V.(1) (Stw 34)11/29 : We sculen bliðeliche ʒiuen…alle ðe…us for his luue besecheð of ðan ilche gode.\na1325(c1280) SLeg.Pass.(Pep 2344)567 : Ʒiueþ vs of ʒoure oyle ffor oure lampes beoþ oute.\n(1340) Ayenb.(Arun 57)198/2-4 : Ne þe ilke ne heþ herte to yeuene: þet ne yefþ er me acsi, þe ilke deþ wel þet yefþ to þe poure þet acseþ, ac he deþ bet þet yefþ wyþoute aksinge.\n(c1384) WBible(1) (Dc 369(2))Deeds 20.35 : It is more blessid for to ʒyue, more than for to receyue.\n(c1387-95) Chaucer CT.Prol.(Manly-Rickert)A.225 : Vn to a poure ordre for to yiue Is signe that a man is wel yshryue.\n(c1387-95) Chaucer CT.Prol.(Manly-Rickert)A.487 : Ful looth were hym to cursen for his tithes But rather wolde he yeuen…Vn to his poure parisshens aboute Of his offrynge and eek of his substaunce.\n(c1390) Chaucer CT.Pars.(Manly-Rickert)I.810 : The speces of misericorde ben as for to lene and for to yeue and to foryeuen and relesse.\nc1400 St.Anne(1) (Min-U Z.822.N.81)176 : Off my gudes I sall gar gyffe…To poure men.\na1425(?a1400) RRose (Htrn 409)1157 : Not auarice, the foule caytyf, Was half to gripe so ententyf As largesse is to yeue and spende.\nc1440(?a1375) Abbey HG (Thrn)56/34 : Mercy hir syster sall be ambynowre, þat gyffes to alle, and noghte kane kepe to hir-selfe.\na1450(?1404) As þe see (Dgb 102)25 : Tak fro þi foo and ʒeue þi frende.\na1450 Castle Persev.(Folg V.a.354)1486 : Whanne any pore man gan to me craue, I gafe hym nowt.\nc1475 Bk.Physiog.(Cmb Ll.4.14)221 : Sol makyth a man…ffayre spekynge, and without boste, gladeliche purchasinge and curteysliche ʒevenge.\na1475 Sidrak & B.(Lnsd 793)9888 : And he þat bileueþ not in God…None almesdede do he ne may, Þogh he ʒeue þe pore alday.\na1500 St.Alex.(5) (Tit A.26)41/182 : Myne owne men…hate gewyn me of theyre cheryte.\na1121 Peterb.Chron.(LdMisc 636)an.656 : Ic Wulfere gife to dæi Sancte Petre & þone abbode Saxulf & þa munecas of þe mynstre þas landes & þas wateres & meres & fennes & weres & ealle þa landes þa þær abuton liggeð.\na1126 Peterb.Chron.(LdMisc 636)an.1125 : He wæs underfangen mid wurðscipe & ealle hine iæfen micele gife.\na1131 Peterb.Chron.(LdMisc 636)an.1128 : Þær he wæs underfangen of ealle gode men, & ealle him geauen gersume.\na1150(OE) Vsp.D.Hom.(Vsp D.14)112/8 : He gelefde þæt æighwylc þe him ænige geofe geafen [OE sealde] bereowsunge on his life dyde.\nc1175 Orm.(Jun 1)9293 : Whasumm…hafeþþ tweʒʒenn kirrtless, Gife he þatt an summ oþerr mann Þatt iss wiþþutenn kirrtell.\na1225(?c1175) PMor.(Lamb 487)56 : Þe þet echte wile habben wel hwile þe he muʒe es welden, Giue [Trin-C: ʒieue; Eg(1): ʒiue; Jes-O: yeue] hies for godes luue.\na1225(c1200) Vices & V.(1) (Stw 34)127/31 : Se þe benimð ðe þine kiertel, ʒif him þine mantel.\na1200 PMor.(Trin-C B.14.52)191 : We ʒieueð uneaðe for his luue a steche of ure breade.\nc1230(?a1200) Ancr.(Corp-C 402)196/13 : Þah ich ʒeue poure al þet ich hefde, ʒef ich nefde luue þerwið…al were ispillet.\nc1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)8491 : He him wolde ʒifuen lond.\nc1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)8856 : Gingiuere & licoriz he hom lefliche ʒef.\na1300 Leuedi sainte (Add 27909)26 : Hord þat ich telle is almesse-dede, ʒieue þe hungrie mete.\nc1300 SLeg.(LdMisc 108)420/8 : Manie of-hongrede, and beden also þat men sum guod heom eue.\nc1325(c1300) Glo.Chron.A (Clg A.11)812 : Min children þat ich ʒef mi god beþ min meste fon.\nc1330 Body & S.(5) (Auch)p.28 : Hem þou ʒeue [Add: gafe] ʒiftes grete…For to glewe þe.\n(1340) Ayenb.(Arun 57)46/9 : Þe ilke þet wynþ, he…ssel hit yue uor godes loue.\na1375(1335-1361) WPal.(KC 13)1467 : Grete ʒiftes were give of gold and of selver.\n(c1385) Chaucer CT.Kn.(Manly-Rickert)A.1441 : Theseus…made hym a squier And gaf hym gold to mayntene his degree.\nc1400 St.Anne(1) (Min-U Z.822.N.81)378 : To poure folke gayf scho yt ay.\na1425(?a1400) RRose (Htrn 409)6569 : They wonnen all her sustenaunce…And the remenaunt yaf awey To other pore folkis.\na1425 Dial.Reason & A.(Cmb Ii.6.39)29/10 : Lent þing is not ʒeuen.\n?a1425 Orch.Syon (Hrl 3432)159/35 : A frend ʒeueþ a present to anoþir.\n(1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)537 : Ʒeve, or ʒevyn [Win: Ʒon or ʒevyn]: Do confero, tribuo, dono, prebeo.\nc1440(a1400) Eglam.(Thrn)260 : I sall ʒow gyffe twa gud grewhundis.\nc1440(?a1400) Perceval (Thrn)1983 : Þou hase giffen thi part of bothe away.\na1450 Mandev.(3) (BodeMus 116)77/31 : God hath youe it [Holy Land] vs into oure hond for youre synnys and not for oure strenthe.\n(1460) Plea & Mem.R.Lond.Gildh.12 : He seith pleynely for verray trouth…þat he in no maner…neither ffurnisshed, stuffed, sold, yeaf, purveyed, nor delivered any harneys or Armure to þe saide Erl.\n(a1470) Malory Wks.(Win-C)17/24 : They were come to gyve hym yeftes with hard swerdys betwixt the neck and the sholders.\n(a1470) Malory Wks.(Win-C)37/19 : Lette hit be geffyn frendly unto thes two kyngis.\n(a1470) Malory Wks.(Win-C)37/27-8 : They gaff the godis as frely to theire knyghtes as hit was gevyn to them.\n?1472 Let.Coldingham in Sur.Soc.12 ()225 : Andreas…is mor glad her off and a man had gifeyn hym a c ducatez.\n(a1475) Fortescue Gov.E.(LdMisc 593)110 : A kynge…wolde take from thaim thair lande and gyf it to his servantes.\nc1475(c1445) Pecock Donet (Bod 916)184/32 : If I ʒeue an almes in money or if I fast, with ful avisement for þis eende þat god loue me…þis avisosnes is not þe dede of fasting, neiþir is þe almes ʒeuing.\nc1450(a1400) Chev.Assigne (Clg A.2)271 : Mony was þe ryche ʒyfte þat þey ʒafe hym.\na1500(c1410) Dives & P.(Htrn 270)1.311 : Ʒif nout awey…to oþer men þi good & þi catel.\na1500 Bod.EMisc.Lapid.(BodEMisc e.558)24/32 : His [diamond’s] vertu is gretter whenne he is yeven frely thenne whenne hit is bought.\na1500 Lond.BPrayer (Hrl 335)p.224* : Pray for tham whiche gythe…un to this chirche any ornamente.\na1500 Partenay (Trin-C R.3.17)652 : Euery bewepte hys deth mornyngly, Thys Erle beried ryght ful solempnely, Ful nobley wele the almes yef and do.\na1500 SLeg.Pass.(Vsp A.3)959/118 : Him was not geue so mikel plas, War-on he miʒt dee fayre, Ne a turf of herd erth.\na1525(?1474) Cov.Leet Bk.391 : Cam oure lorde prince Edward…to Couentre, and the Meire and his brethern…metyng oure seid lord Prince…yevyng hym there a c mark in a gilt Coppe.\nc1540(?a1400) Destr.Troy (Htrn 388)11978 : Þat trew…myche good hase þe gyffen of his gold red.\nc1330(?a1300) Tristrem (Auch)1830 : What þou askest me Ʒiue y schal þe.\nc1400 Bk.Mother (Bod 416)195/12 : What she wol aske Heroud wol ʒeue to hure.\nc1450 Ponthus (Dgb 185)35/4 : That wolle I not yeave you.\n(a1470) Malory Wks.(Win-C)38/15 : Woll ye geff me a gyffte?\nc1540(?a1400) Destr.Troy (Htrn 388)13553 : For goddes loue, ges me som part.\na1375(1335-1361) WPal.(KC 13)536 : To God here I gif a gift.\n(a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)1 Par.29.7 : Þei ʒifen in to þe wercis of þe hous of þe lord fyue thousend talentis of gold.\n(1415) EEWills23/12 : Þat other half be ʒeifi to the maryage of yonge pore wommen.\n(1423) Doc.Brewer in Bk.Lond.E.148/251 : Þoo persones…deyeden yn þese ij ʒeris, for þe wheche was ʒoven diuerse sommes of monye to þe craffte and Fraternite.\n(1429) Reg.Langley in Sur.Soc.16979 : To the reparacion of those tenementes…I have gyven to the…Mesondieu…xl l.\nc1450 Royal SSecr.(Roy 18.A.7)7/5 : God…his ricchesse enlargisshith and habundauntly yefith vnto lijf of wys men.\n(1466) in Cox Churches Derb.4.85 : A grene sute of Vestementes…Mr Mydylton of london gaffe.\n(?1474) Stonor1.146 : j tabulle of alebasture…Mastres Jane Stonor has yeft unto þe chapelle of Stonor.\na1500(c1465) SEChron.(Lamb 306:Everett)62 : London yave to the werrys Ml. li.\na1500 St.Anne(3) (Tan 407)83 : On parte they ʒouyn to god…to the meyntonawnse of holy chyrche and goddes servyse.\nc1540(?a1400) Destr.Troy (Htrn 388)11469 : He shuld…spir…what godes þai wold gyffe to the gret harmes.\n(c1300) Havelok (LdMisc 108)365 : He was hosled and shriuen, His quiste maked and for him gyuen.\na1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)28325 : Ic seketur…Ne folud noght…þe testament…Bot gafe i it gain dedis will.\nc1400(c1378) PPl.B (LdMisc 581)10.312 : Litel had lordes to done to ʒyue londe fram her heires.\n(1430) EEWills87/9 : I will þat þat money be yefen in Almys for my sowle.\n(1444) Will Daubeney in Som.RS 19340 : Y wol ther be a blak sywete of vestementes yeffyn and all to serve at the auter of our lady.\na1450 Castle Persev.(Folg V.a.354)2964 : Syn þou art ded…He hath ʒoue me al þat was þyne.\na1500(?c1414) ?Brampton PPs.(1) (Sln 1853)p.16 : That I have getyn with sore travayle, Men ben a boutyn to ʒyve fro me.\na1500(?a1450) GRom.(Glo 42)727/6 : He wolde fulfylle his faderes wylle, and gyfe it to þe moste fole þat he cowlde fynde.\n-?-(1471) Will in Som.RS 16221 : I wil that myne executours yeve to 5 poore men 5 gownes.\na1325(c1250) Gen.& Ex.(Corp-C 444)3350 : He to lond canaan Comen, ðat god hem giuen gan.\n(a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)2 Par.6.25 : Þou schalt…bryng hem aʒeen in to þe lond þat þou ʒeeue to hem.\n(1420) EEWills45/6 : I ʒewe to Iohn Forster my godsonne a becure of seluer y-keueryd.\n(1431) EEWills90/9 : The remenaunt of my good I giffe and bequethe to William Estfeld.\n(1459) Lin.DDoc.118/11 : The Residew of all my other goodis…I yeff and beqweth to Alys my wyff.\n(1463) Will Bury in Camd.4923 : I yeve here…the clothes…that longe to ye bedde that she hath loyen in.\n(1463) Will Bury in Camd.4931 : The howsyng, rente, and othir londs…is gove and grawntyd to helpe to the seid yeerly charges be syde.\na1500(?a1450) GRom.(Hrl 7333)25 : Þe only douʒter…is þe soule of man…to whom god hath ʒevin and bequeþon…paradise.\na1500(?c1450) Merlin (Cmb Ff.3.11)241 : My fader hath yoven his londe…to Bandemagn, his nevew, after his discesse.\n-?-(1459) Will in Som.RS 16193 : Where my lord my fader…bequeathed in his testament to my sonnes…700 marke, I have yeve to him to manors of Flyntfeld and Felcham.\na1150(OE) Vsp.D.Hom.(Vsp D.14)89/4 : Gyf þu mihtest ænige bote me finden of minen yfele, ic þe wolde gyfen gold & seolfer, swa mycel swa þin scip heonne ferigen wolde.\na1250 Cristes milde moder (Nero A.14)34 : Alle þine ureondes þu makest riche kinges, þu ham ʒiuest kinescrud, beies, & gold ringes.\nc1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)15529 : Ʒif þu miht under Criste þis forward me ileste, ich þe ʒeuen [?read: ʒeue] to hure al Deuene-scire.\nc1300(c1250) Floris (Cmb Gg.4.27)71 : Þe mariner[s] he ʒaf largeliche þat broʒte him ouer bluþeliche.\na1325(c1250) Gen.& Ex.(Corp-C 444)3941 : Ðog balaac king me goue hold His hus ful of siluer…Ne mai ic wenden her bi-neðen.\na1325(?c1300) NPass.(Cmb Gg.1.1)153 : Wol iye yeue me mede And to Iesu ich wol you lede?\nc1330(?a1300) Tristrem (Auch)1851 : Ʒifstow glewemen þi quen?\na1375(1335-1361) WPal.(KC 13)5355 : No tong miʒt telle…þe mede to menstrales þat mene time was ʒeve, of robes wiþ riche pane and oþer richesse grete.\n(a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)2 Kings 18.11 : I schulde han ʒife to þee ten cicles of seluer.\nc1390 PPl.A(1) (Vrn)3.203 : Hit bicomeþ For a kyng…To ʒiue meede to men þat mekeliche him seruen.\nc1440 PLAlex.(Thrn)59/3 : Swore þou noʒte till vs…þat þou solde giff vs a worthi reward?\nc1450(?a1400) Wars Alex.(Ashm 44)1662 : He…Geues þam garsons of gold.\n(a1470) Malory Wks.(Win-C)272/23 : What tresoure that there is in this castel, I yeff hit you for a rewarde for your grevaunces.\na1500(a1400) Ipom.(1) (Chet 8009)6868 : He had gyffner to them bothe.\nc1450(a1400) Libeaus (Clg A.2)2034 : For þou sauyst my lyf, Casteles ten and fyf J ʒeue þe wyth-outen ende.\na1500 Parton.(1) (Add 35288)3321 : Hys bonde kyndrede y made fre…And yff hym [UC: Gaffe hem] castell and cetye.\n?a1525(?a1475) Play Sacr.(Dub 652)652 : Gyff them ther reward þat they were gone!\n1530(c1450) Mirror Our Lady (Fawkes)18 : The prynces of the worlde gyueth worldly rewarde to her praysers.\n?a1425(?a1350) Castleford Chron.Lear (Göt Hist 740)208 : Leir…Wald…Nothyng wyth her gyfe of hys handes.\nc1475(a1400) Amadace (Tay 9)p.48 : A gifte schalle I ʒo gife, Halfe my kyndome, quiles I life.\na1500(?a1400) Torrent (Chet 8009)934 : Two duchyes in [londe] I wille geve here in hande.\na1400(?a1350) Siege Troy(1) (Eg 2862)49/601 : Y…ʒaue her þe balle hastely And seide she was þe feirest lady.\na1425 Siege Troy(1) (LinI 150)44/552 : Knyʒt, gef me þe bal and han y-don!\nc1450(c1440) Scrope Othea (StJ-C H.5)74/10 : There come Discorde and cast an appil of goolde vppon þe boorde, where-on was writen: Lete þis be yoven to þe faireste.\n(a1470) Malory Wks.(Win-C)176/24 : Therefore was gyffyn hym the pryce, and that was a jarfaucon and a whyght stede trapped with cloth of golde.\na1475 Siege Troy(1) (Hrl 525)176/435 : That appull, Parys, yef þou me.\na1500 GRom.(Glo 42)774/12 : Þerfor schall þe ryng be yeve to suche oon.\na1275 Serm.St.Nich.(Trin-C B.14.39)66/120 : Yeuet on, ye findet tuo.\na1300 Selden gifis men (Dgb 53)21 : Selden gifis men dumb man land.\na1325 Prov.Hend.(Cmb Gg 1.1)st.16 : Wo me litil ʒevid, he is me live an.\na1325 Prov.Hend.(Cmb Gg 1.1)st.36 : Wan man ʒevit þe a pig, opin þe powch.\n(c1384) WBible(1) (Dc 369(2))Luke 12.48 : To whom moche is ʒouun, moche schal be axid of hym.\na1450(c1433) Lydg.St.Edm.(Hrl 2278)395/1046 : A gifte is doublid whan it is youe soone.\nc1450(c1386) Chaucer LGW Prol.(1) (Benson-Robinson)451 : Whoso yeveth a yifte…Do it by tyme, his thank ys wel the more.\nc1450 Dc.Prov.(Dc 52)p.44 : He þat a lytul me ʒeuyth, to me wyllyth longe lyffe…Ʒefe me and I the, And so schul we frendus be.\nc1450 Dc.Prov.(Dc 52)p.45 : Of a litul me ʒeuyth a litul.\nc1475 Abbrev.Trip.SSecr.(UC 85)282/13 : All that is yiuen to thaim that ben vnworthy is lost.\na1500(c1410) Dives & P.(Htrn 270)1.63 : It is…more blisful to ʒeuyn þan to takyn.\n(a) To bestow (sth. immaterial), confer (possession of sth., a privilege, title, benefice, an office, etc.); grant jurisdiction over (a kingdom, bishopric, etc.), put (an institution, a city, jurisdiction, etc.) into someone’s charge; grant (authority, power, etc.);—usu. with indirect obj.; also, confer (the right to a specified coat of arms on sb. or a guild); (b) to gift (sb. with freedom); (c) to convey (property, rights, privileges, jurisdiction over a bishopric, district, etc.) by formal instrument;—usu. with to phrase and person as obj. of prep.; also in fig. context; (d) to reward with (sth. immaterial), give as a reward; of God: give (a place in heaven, the grace of a good end, etc.) as a reward; give (a reward); also fig.;—usu. with indirect obj.; (e) of a person: to award (victory to sb. or sth.), adjudge; also, grant (preeminence to sb.); (f) to forgive (sb. a debt).\na1121 Peterb.Chron.(LdMisc 636)an.1107 : Nan man næs þe gemvnde þæt æfre ær swa fela togædere gyfene wæron.\na1131 Peterb.Chron.(LdMisc 636)an.1127 : Iæf se kyng him þone eorldom of Flandres.\na1131 Peterb.Chron.(LdMisc 636)an.1127 : He gæf þone abbotrice of Burch an abbot, Heanri wæs gehaten.\n?a1160 Peterb.Chron.(LdMisc 636)an.1140 : Þe eorles…brohten hire into Oxenford & iauen hire þe burch.\nc1175(?OE) Bod.Hom.(Bod 343)28/23 : Hwa ʒeaf þe ðesne andweald þæt ðu swylce ðing makyʒe?\nc1175 Orm.(Jun 1)7011 : Þurrh þe king off Romeburrh Himm [Herod] ʒifenn wass þatt riche.\nc1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)3574 : He him Lundene ʒæf.\n(c1300) Havelok (LdMisc 108)298 : Sholde ic yeue a fol…Engelond, þou sho it yerne?\n(1324) Iche Edward Kynge (Jul F.10)2 : Iche Edward Kynge Have yeoven of my forest the keping…To Randolph Peperking.\nc1325(c1300) Glo.Chron.A (Clg A.11)8864 : Alle þe bissopriches…he ʒef…& alle þe abbeies þer to.\na1375(1335-1361) WPal.(KC 13)1096 : Ʒif me þe ordur of kniʒt.\n(c1390) Chaucer CT.Mel.(Manly-Rickert)B.3039 : As touchynge that ye seyn ye wol exile youre aduersaries, that thynketh me muchel agayn resoun…considered the power that they han yeuen yow vp on hem self.\nc1400(c1378) PPl.B (LdMisc 581)19.178 : He [Christ]…ʒaf Pieres power.\n?a1425 Orch.Syon (Hrl 3432)298/26 : Þei wolen ʒeue þe ordir of preest to a man þat is an ydiote.\n(a1428) Doc.N.Convocation in Sur.Soc.113163 : Ye power of ye keys…was gyen also to oyer Bisshops and prestes.\n(c1434) Drury Wks.(CmbAdd 2830)78/106 : The sacrament of ordere…ʒeuyt hym power to mynysteryn & makyn oþere sacramentis.\nc1450(1410) Walton Boeth.(Lin-C 103)p.4 : Þere is none more parelouse pestilence Þan hyhe estates gyffen vnto schrewes.\nc1450(a1425) MOTest.(SeldSup 52)141 : He gafe them power playn Abuf All erthly thynge.\n(?1454) Paston2.102 : He wysshed…to hafe gofe me a lyvyng by reson of a benefice.\n(1455) Doc.in Nicholl Ironmongers26 : Know ye us…to haue geven and graunted unto the honurable Crafte and felasship of the ffraunchised men of Iremongers of the citie of London a token of armes, that is to sey: Siluer, a cheueron of Gowles, sitte betwene three Gaddes of Stele of Asure, [etc.].\n(1472) Grant Arms in Antiq.49289 : Thise Armes…have appoynted, gevyn, and graunten to…the saide Crafte and felawship.\nc1475(?c1400) Wycl.Apol.(Dub 245)12 : A clene man…praid him to ʒif him ordres frely.\na1500(c1410) Dives & P.(Htrn 270)1.341 : He ʒeuyth kyngdam & lordchepe to whom þat he wile.\na1500(?a1475) Guy(4) (Cmb Ff.2.38)656 : All the men wyth hartys free Haue geuyn Gye the maystree.\nc1540(?a1400) Destr.Troy (Htrn 388)3668 : To Agamynon þai giffen þe gouernaunce hole, ffor worthiest of wit þat worship to haue.\na1425(a1382) WBible(1) (Corp-O 4)Deut.15.13 : Whom with freedam thow ʒyuest [L donaveris], thou shalt not suffre to goon awey voyd.\na1121 Peterb.Chron.(LdMisc 636)an.675 : Ealle þa þing þe min broðer Peada…& mine swuster Kineburh & Kynesuith geafon & getton Sancte Peter…þa wile ic þet stande.\n(c1390) Chart.Abbey HG (LdMisc 210)338 : Almiʒti god in trinite…haþ ʒouen & graunted…to Adam…&…Eue…& to here heyres…a lytel preciouse place þat is clepid Conscience.\n(1423) MSS PRO in App.Bk.Lond.E.308 : Knovn be hit to halle men þat I…haue gyfun & grauntut to William Danyell…þe warde of halle þe londes & tenementes þe quyche werun Johns of þe Meles.\n(1423-4) Let.Bk.in Bk.Lond.E.(Gldh LetBk I & K)106/5 : A dede conteynyng how þat one Richard Pavy…and Johan his wif…shuld a yofe by a dede of feffement alle rentes and tenementes þat he had.\n(1425) RParl.4.270a : To ye whiche Article ye seid Roger, answeryng, seieth yat commaundement yave no title to his Lord Erl of Warr’, ne chaungeth not ye enheritaunce of his seid Lord Erl Mareschall of Englond, but if hit hadde be done by auctorite of Parlement.\na1450(a1400) SChart.Chr.(Add 37049)7 : Dedi & concessi: I hafe gyfen [vrr. yevyne, gyue] & made a graunt, To al þat asks it repentaunt, Heuen blis with-outen endyng.\na1475 Godstow Reg.(Rwl B.408)49/21 : The sentence of this charter is that Richard Ieodewyne of wyghtam and Alice his wyf hath yovene and graunted, and by there present chartire confermed to Thomas Pacokes, a mesuage with a Crofte and an half acre of arrable lond…To have and to hold…for ever more.\na1475 Godstow Reg.(Rwl B.408)573/2 : Bernard…hath ʒyf & I-grauntid…to the hows of Godstowe…The [is]land [in] the whych the chyrch…is byldyd.\n(1476) Plea & Mem.R.Lond.Gildh.106 : I…yeve and graunte to the said Robert my Sone…all my right clayme proprite.\nc1175(?OE) Bod.Hom.(Bod 343)104/3 : Alle þas ðing ic þe ʒyfe & sylle.\nc1175 Orm.(Jun 1)11383 : All þiss icc ʒife þe Ʒiff þu to me willt cnelenn.\nc1225(?c1200) HMaid.(Bod 34)16/247 : Ich chulle…ʒeouen [Tit: ʒiuen] ham stude ant nome betere þen sunen & dehtren.\nc1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)14595 : Ich ʒiue þe ane eorl don…wið þat þu a-neoste þe burh me bi-tache.\n(1340) Ayenb.(Arun 57)150/5 : God yefþ to þe poure þe heuene.\n(c1390) Chaucer CT.Pars.(Manly-Rickert)I.716 : Heuene is yeuen to hem that wol labouren and nat to ydel folk.\nc1400(?a1387) PPl.C (Hnt HM 137)4.341 : Þat ys þe ʒefte þat god ʒyueþ to alle leelle lyuynge, Grace of good ende.\na1425 Cursor (Glb E.9)29071 : God sall gif ʒow heuyn to mede.\na1450(c1400-25) Legat Serm.PD (Wor F.10)11/44 : Whi kans nat loue him þat wil ʒe þe for þi loue þe riche reem of heuene?\nc1450(c1380) Chaucer HF (Benson-Robinson)1558 : Madame…In ful recompensacioun Of good werkes, yive us good renoun.\nc1460 Tree & Fruits HG (McC 132)158/13 : ‘I shal yif,’ seith oure lord, ‘to my chast seruauntes a place and a name in myn hous of heuen.’\n?a1475(a1396) *Hilton SP (Hrl 6579)1.61.42a : Þat oþer mede…wilk oure lord ʒefeþ for special goode dedis…is…a special tokne ordeined of god in reward of þat special dede.\nc1475(?c1400) Wycl.Apol.(Dub 245)8 : Tryst he of þe parting of merit þat God gifiþ men frely as him likiþ.\nc1400(?a1300) KAlex.(LdMisc 622)214 : Of þe folk, lewed and lered, Ʒauen hire prijs of þe middlerd.\na1450(a1338) Mannyng Chron.Pt.1 (Lamb 131)500 : Þat was gret curtesye, To gyue þe bole þe maistrie & late hym gon corouned quit.\na1450(a1338) Mannyng Chron.Pt.1 (Lamb 131)508 : Þyse þre stoden & byheld þe boles bataille in þe feld, & praised mikel sire Paris Þat he gaf þat bole þe pris.\nc1450 Ponthus (Dgb 185)31/16 : Itt was gretly spoken of theym that faght the beste…Bot withoute comparacion Ponthus hade the…laude afor theym all…Also they gave grete pris to Geffray de Lazynyen, to Landry de La Toure, and…Barnard de La Roche, for they wer thre of the best aftre Ponthus.\n(a1470) Malory Wks.(Win-C)357/21 : Eythir of them gaff other the pryse of the batayle.\n(?c1460) Paston2.218 : He thynkyth ye shulde gevet [debt] hym.\n(a) To give (comfort, help, mercy, etc.), grant (forgiveness, pardon, respite, etc.), render (judgment), pass (sentence); of God: give (grace);—usu. with indirect obj.; also, with inf. or clause: give (sb. respite, grace, comfort, etc. to do sth.); give (sb. respite that sb. do sth.), pass (judgment that sth. should occur), etc.; (b) to grant (sb. leave or license), give (sb. permission); also, with inf. or clause: grant (sb. leave to so sth., that sb. do sth., etc.); (c) in oaths, asseverations, prayers, imprecations, etc.;—freq. with inf. or clause: god yeve him ivel grace; god yeve that oure ende be god; yeve us so his wille to don; etc.\nShow 79 Quotations Hide 79 Quotations\na1225(OE) Lamb.Hom.Pentec.(Lamb 487)97 : He…ʒifð heom forʒifnesse and huht.\na1225(?OE) Lamb.Hom.(Lamb 487)19 : Nu sculle we for-lete þes licome lust for-þon and tilian to þere saule bihofðe þa hwile we maʒen, þa hwile crist us wule ʒefen furst on þisse liue.\na1225(c1200) Vices & V.(1) (Stw 34)17/19 : La[n]gne first ic ðe ʒaf wel to donne ʒif ðu woldest.\na1250 Cristes milde moder (Nero A.14)81 : Ilch mon þet to þe [Mary] bisihð, þu ʒiuest milce & ore.\nc1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)10418 : Nu ich wulle ʒifen him grið.\na1300(c1250) Floris (Vit D.3)396 : Hei crieþ him merci so suiþe Þat he ʒaf hem furst of here liue.\nc1330(?c1300) Bevis (Auch)203/4307 : Þe king wolde haue ʒeue him griþ; þe stiward seide nay þer wiþ.\na1375(1335-1361) WPal.(KC 13)1169 : Þan preiede he to þe Prince of hevene forto giif him grace his gomes to save.\na1375(1335-1361) WPal.(KC 13)2152 : But ʒit, as God ʒaf þe grace, no gom miʒt hem finde.\n(a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)1 Par.18.5 : Cyre damascen cam ouer þat he ʒeeue helpe to Adadeser, king of Soba.\n(c1385) Chaucer CT.Kn.(Manly-Rickert)A.1720 : Ne yeue vs neither mercy ne refuge, But slee me first.\n(a1387) Trev.Higd.(StJ-C H.1)3.9 : Salomon…hadde i-fonge wit and wisdom of God in þe hille; he ʒeue dome of þe hoores.\n(c1390) Chaucer CT.Pars.(Manly-Rickert)I.179 : Therfore sholde he preye to god to yeue hym respit a while to biwepe and biwaylen his trespas.\na1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)26472 : Iesus crist es redier To merci giue þan jugement.\na1400(?a1325) Bonav.Medit.(1) (Hrl 1701)1106 : Douteþ ʒe no þyng of hys grete mercy, For largely he ʒyfþ þat cryeþ hyt hertly.\na1400 Cursor (Trin-C R.3.8)3912 : Iacob wex riche…þourʒe þe grace þat god him ʒof.\nc1400(?a1387) PPl.C (Hnt HM 137)21.197 : God gaf þe dom hymselue Þat adam and eue…Sholden deye.\na1425 Ben.Rule(1) (Lnsd 378)3/18 : For þi he giuis us respit, þat we sal mende ure sinne.\na1425 Rolle FLiving (Arun 507)414 : God makis some better þen oþer & gifs þaim mare grace.\na1450(a1396) Hilton CPerf.(Paris angl.41)8 : By contynuaunce in preier is liʒt of grace ʒoun to a soule.\na1450 St.Editha (Fst B.3)3544 : God…ʒefthe þis mayde grace to worche on þis manere.\nc1450 Cursor (Add 36983)1667/9710 : Withoute our all comon assent, Oweþ to be ʒeffe no Iugement.\nc1450 Mandev.(4) (CovCRO Acc.325/1)421 : He…yaffe ful grete pardoun thereto.\na1475(?a1430) Lydg.Pilgr.(Vit C.13)24360 : Iuges for offence han yoved hir sentence.\na1475 Rev.St.Bridget (Gar 145)66/34 : Her synne was done away & þe grace of God ʒeff.\nc1475(?c1400) Wycl.Apol.(Dub 245)63 : Þe man schal not vndir go þe peyn, befor þat þe juge ʒeft þe dome.\nc1475(?c1400) Wycl.Apol.(Dub 245)79 : Now clerkis practisyn bi þer new lawis þat a iuge schal…if þe sentens to sle þe innocent.\nc1475 Brm.Abraham (Brm)433 : I pray God ʒeffe vs grace euermo.\nc1475 Wisd.(Folg V.a.354)704 : Off batell also yt [trumpet] ys on instrumente, Yevynge comfort to fyght.\na1500(?a1400) Torrent (Chet 8009)1988 : Helpe…I shall hym yeve.\na1500(?a1450) GRom.(Hrl 7333)155 : Sir…yife me nowe a Iuste dome.\na1500(a1460) Towneley Pl.(Hnt HM 1)203/270 : Where so thou gone, Ful mekill grace is to the geyn.\na1500(c1477) Norton OAlch.(Add 10302)342 : Of whose deceptis moche can y reporte, But I darre not, lest I gife comforte To such as be disposide to tregedie.\na1500 Chartier Treat.Hope (Rwl A.338)25/14 : O light which enlumyneste whanne reason failithe…for to yeve helpe to mannys vndirstondinge.\na1500 Siege Jerus.(2) (Brog 2.1)82/355 : Gode hade ʒeyfe hyme respyt forty ʒer, but he wold not amend.\na1131 Peterb.Chron.(LdMisc 636)an.1129 : Se kyng hem geaf ealle leue ham to farene.\nc1200 Wor.Serm.in EGSt.7 (Wor Q.29)47 : God…heuede ʒiue leue heom of eche tre heor ville to done.\na1200 Trin.Hom.(Trin-C B.14.52)39 : Swa giued ure drihten leue þe deule to ben on þe swinisshe man.\nc1225(?c1200) St.Juliana (Bod 34)31/318 : Wurch eleusius wil, for ich þe ʒeoue leaue.\nc1300(c1250) Floris (Cmb Gg.4.27)245 : Bute he him ʒeue leue, He wule him boþe bete & reue.\na1325(c1250) Gen.& Ex.(Corp-C 444)3078 : Gu wapmen, giue Ic leue to gon.\nc1350 Apoc.(1) in LuSE (Hrl 874)p.101 : Hym is ʒouen leue to done bataile wiþ þe holy.\n(c1395) Chaucer CT.WB.(Manly-Rickert)D.83 : For to been a wyf he yaf me leue.\nc1400 Bk.Mother (Bod 416)124/7 : He wol ʒeue þe no leue to ride ne to go out of þi cloister.\na1425(a1382) WBible(1) (Corp-O 4)Ex.3.19 : The kyng of Egipte shal not ʒyue ʒow leue that ʒe goon.\na1425 Dial.Reason & A.(Cmb Ii.6.39)33/12 : Feith ʒeueþ no man licens for to suppose þat þer be any hender path to heuene þanne his ensaumple.\n?a1425 Orch.Syon (Hrl 3432)347/27 : I ʒeue hem leue…þat þei mowe smyte at alle oþire gatis, but not at þis.\n(1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)537 : Ʒeen or ʒeue leve: Licencio.\na1450(c1410) Lovel.Merlin (Corp-C 80)1167 : They hire ʒoven leve therto.\n(1471) GRed Bk.Bristolpt.2 p.136 : We…geue licence to the same William that he…schal mowe charge…a Ship.\n(a1474) Stonor1.138 : Besekyng yow…to have ʒevyn me lysens to have goyn hom to my cuntre.\na1500(c1410) Dives & P.(Htrn 270)1.4 : The fend may nout seyn ne don but as God ʒeuyth hym leue.\n1532(?a1400) RRose (Thynne)3673 : Alwaye byddeth she me so To yeue no louer leaue to kysse.\na1225(?c1175) PMor.(Lamb 487)122 : God ʒeue [Eg(1): ʒuue; Trin-C: ʒieue] þet ure ende bo god.\na1225(c1200) Vices & V.(1) (Stw 34)147/22 : Ʒif me ʒiet a litel ferst, for þine godnesse!\na1225 Lamb.Hom.Pater N.(Lamb 487)63/135 : Ʒife us swa his wil to donne þet we gode likie and monne.\nc1250 Maidin and moder þat (Cleo B.6)8 : Maidin mari, help us at ure hending…þat suete ihesu þat born was of þe, þu giue us in is godhed him to se.\na1275 Seinte marie leuedi (Trin-C B.14.39)23 : Leuedi, yemme grace þat i mote wid al mine miste louien þe.\nc1300 Horn (LdMisc 108)32/593 : God þe ʒyeue god endynge!\nc1300 SLeg.Becket (Hrl 2277)p.88 : God ʒeve hit were so, That thurf mi deth holi churche were ibroʒt therto.\na1325(c1250) Gen.& Ex.(Corp-C 444)31 : Fader god…Almigtin louerd, hegest kinge, Ðu giue me seli timinge.\na1325(c1280) SLeg.Pass.(Pep 2344)1962 : God ʒeue þat some of ham miʒte in þe ale-ffat a-drenche!\nc1330 Roland & V.(Auch)515 : So mahoun me ʒiue rest, Oʒain ten swiche þe best To fiʒt ich wold go!\na1375(1335-1361) WPal.(KC 13)258 : Ʒa, safliche…so God ʒif me joie!\na1375(1335-1361) WPal.(KC 13)1648 : Elles had I deide for duel…so God for his grace gove y hadde!\nc1390 PPl.A(1) (Vrn)9.52 : God saue þe…And ʒiue þe grace…In good lyf to ende.\n(c1390) Chaucer CT.ML.(Manly-Rickert)B.602 : God yeue hym meschaunce!\na1400 Haue gooday (Cai 54/31)6 : God ʒeue þat so miʒte hit be!\nc1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)5.1583 : Þe cite…called was Methene, With-Inne whiche was þe fals quene Clemestra—God ʒif hir harde grace!\n(1447) Shillingford7 : God eve [alt. from: yeve] grace hit be gode.\na1450 Castle Persev.(Folg V.a.354)1815 : Þou Gloton, God ʒeue þe wo!\na1450 Dux Moraud (BodPoet f.2)204 : Jhesu…Pot me from dolour, And geue me gras…A prest to auyn, I say!\nc1450 Swarte smekyd (Arun 292)21 : Cryst hem gyue sorwe!\nc1475 Earth(3) (Brog 2.1)26/61 : Gode ʒeyf þe grace.\nc1475 Mankind (Folg V.a.354)161 : Farwell, jentyll Jaffrey, I prey Gode gyf yow goode nyght!\nc1475 Wisd.(Folg V.a.354)550 : Wyde to go I may not blyne Wyth þis fals boy, God gyff hym euell grace!\na1500(a1400) Libeaus (Lamb 306)273 : God yf [Clg: graunte] the grace…To brynge that byrde oute of bonde.\na1500(?a1400) Morte Arth.(2) (Hrl 2252)2643 : Ihesu…Yiffe the grace wele to spede.\na1500(?a1400) Torrent (Chet 8009)2009 : God that died vppon the Rode, Yff grace, that she mete with good!\n(a) To provide; provide (for sb.); also, in partitive construction: ~ of, provide (for sb.) some of (sth.); also, of the earth: provide (for sb.) of (its fruits); (b) to provide (the necessities of life), supply (daily sustenance, shelter, worldly goods, etc.), make available; also fig.; provide (a sum of money, a commodity);—usu. with indirect obj.; also, of Christ: provide (mankind) with (good things); (c) to provide (a son for a woman or a people), give (sb. offspring or descendants); also, provide (a king for sb.), supply (human beings to populate the earth); (d) to furnish (equipment, battle gear, etc. to sb.); also fig. and in fig. context; ~ seiles, furnish speed (to a navy); (e) to furnish (an example, a model), serve as (an exemplar); also, set (a precedent);—freq. with indirect obj.; also, with inf. or clause: furnish (an example or a model to sb. to do sth., how one should do sth., etc.); ~ ensaumple (essample, exaumple, fore-bisne) [see also ensaumple n. 4b.(b)]; (f) to furnish (an opportunity, impediment, a cause, means, etc.);—usu. with indirect obj.; also, with inf. or clause: furnish (sb. a reason, justification, an occasion, etc. to do sth.); furnish (a cause or an occasion that sth. be done); ~ profite (utilite), be useful (for doing sth.); (g) to endow with (life, a soul, faculty, quality, reason, etc.); be responsible for (natural endowments, behavioral or temperamental traits, a talent, an aptitude);—usu. with indirect obj.; also, furnish (light, beams to the sun, stars to the heavens, etc.); also, with inf. or clause: endow (sb.) with (reason, free will, etc. to do sth.); endow (sb.) with (free choice whether he will do sth.).\nShow 103 Quotations Hide 103 Quotations\nc1175(?OE) Bod.Hom.(Bod 343)130/1 : Æfre swa he us merlucor ʒyfð, swa we him swiðe þonciæm sceolen.\nc1230(?a1200) Ancr.(Corp-C 402)169/17 : Him nis na þing leouere þen þet he mahe ifinden acheisun forte ʒeouene.\n(1340) Ayenb.(Arun 57)114/3 : Oure guode uader…is zuete and milde uor to yuene, large and corteys.\nc1350 MPPsalter (Add 17376)17.23 : Our Lord shal ʒyf to me efter my ryʒt.\n?a1425 Orch.Syon (Hrl 3432)338/16 : I haue bede…þe erþe for to ʒeue ʒou of hise fruytis.\na1450(a1401) Chastising GC (Bod 505)112/8 : Oure lord haþ ʒoue, oure lorde haþ take awei.\na1450 PNoster R.Hermit (Westm-S 3)8/35 : Þen schal God ʒyue vs to auauntage of erþely goodis þat vs nediþ.\na1450 PNoster R.Hermit (Westm-S 3)9/3 : Of erþely goodis þat ʒow nede is, I schal ʒyue ʒow to sustenaunce.\na1500 Chartier Treat.Hope (Rwl A.338)15/13 : O Creature which arte pardurable…Thou maist yeve and take away.\nc1175(OE) Bod.Hom.Avar.(Bod 343)134/25 : Efne þu ʒyfæ þissum men þus fælæ æhtæ & godæ, & he sylf is yfel.\na1225(?OE) Lamb.Hom.(Lamb 487)13 : Ic eou wille ʒeuan wela and westme inoʒe.\na1200 Trin.Hom.(Trin-C B.14.52)27 : Gif us to dai ure daihwamliche bred.\na1325(c1250) Gen.& Ex.(Corp-C 444)794 : God gaf him ðor siluer and gold.\n(1340) Ayenb.(Arun 57)110/14 : Vayre uader, oure bryad of eche daye yef ous to day.\n(a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)Ruth 1.6 : Þe lord hadde beholdyn hir puple & hadde ʒouyn to hem metis.\n(c1390) Chaucer CT.Pars.(Manly-Rickert)I.754 : Thise lordshipes doon wrong that bireuen hire bonde folk thynges that they neuere yaue hem.\n(c1395) Chaucer CT.Cl.(Manly-Rickert)E.203 : Poure folk…toke hir sustenance After that the erthe yaf hem habundance.\na1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)971 : Lauerd…þou gafs [Frf: ges vs; Göt: gifes] al.\na1425(a1382) WBible(1) (Corp-O 4)Gen.1.29 : Y haue ʒouun to ʒow al erbe brynginge forthe seed vpon the erthe.\n(a1438) MKempe A (Add 61823)37/6 : Þan þis creatur boldly spak to hym for þe correccyon of hys meny, seying…‘My Lord, owyr alderes Lord, al-myty God, hath not ʒon ʒow ʒowyr…gret goodys of þe world to may[n]ten wyth hys tretowrys & hem þat slen hym euery day be gret othys sweryng.’\nc1450(c1440) Scrope Othea (StJ-C H.5)41/4 : Sche [Io], be the lettres that sche fonde, yaf noryshschynge to vnderstandynge.\n(c1449) Pecock Repr.(Cmb Kk.4.26)264 : The…preier of Iohun…ʒeuyth to me the seid fee of xxti pound.\n(?1461) Paston2.259 : Geney mad hys auuant þat he had ʒoue ʒow and hym a choppe of xx pownd of lond.\n?a1475 Ludus C.(Vsp D.8)54/82 : Only hym loue which bodyly ffood doth ʒeve all day.\nc1475(?c1400) Wycl.Apol.(Dub 245)5 : Crist…cam to serue…and bi þis haþ ʒefun to vs mani good þingis.\nc1475 Brm.Abraham (Brm)3 : Thow hast ʒoffe me both lond and rent.\na1500(1422) Yonge SSecr.(Rwl B.490)156/25 : The good that god haue yeuyn the, thow sholdyst not hit kepe as anothyr manes good, but as thyn owyn despende and vse hit.\na1500(?c1425) Spec.Sacer.(Add 36791)113/19 : I was herborles and ye yaue me no herbore; I was nakyd and ye couered me noʒt.\na1500 3rd Fran.Rule (Seton)53/12 : The ministers must visit theim…geffyng theim also that is necessary to theim.\n?a1500(?1458) Off alle Werkys (Inscr)p.42 : He gaf hem stonys i nowhe into the werkys ende.\n(a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)1 Kings 12.13 : Lo, þe lord haþ ʒyuen to ʒou a kyng.\na1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)9819 : A child it es vs born; A sun es gine vs for vr nede.\na1425(a1382) WBible(1) (Corp-O 4)Gen.15.4 : Abram addide, ‘To me…thow hast not ʒouun seed, and, lo! the seruaunt of myn howshold shal be myn eyre.’\n?a1425(c1380) Chaucer Bo.(Benson-Robinson)3.m.6.5 : On allone is fadir of thynges…he yaf the men to the erthe.\n?1435 Lond.Chron.Jul.(Jul B.2)44 : Thes ben the wordes off the hyh Kyng spekyng to Samuel and teching hym whom he shulde…putte Inne to governe the peple, whanne the same peple asked a kyng to be yoven hem.\nc1460 Cursor (LdMisc 416)10485 : Þou…a worþy sonne hir yaue.\na1500(1422) Yonge SSecr.(Rwl B.490)197/12 : He Prayed god that he wolde yeue hym generacion.\na1500(?a1450) GRom.(Hrl 7333)32 : A sone is ʒoven to vs.\na1375(1335-1361) WPal.(KC 13)1103 : Þemperour…ʒaf hem hors and armes as an hend lord schold.\n(a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)2 Kings 22.36 : Þou ʒeeue to me a target of þi helþe.\na1400 Ancr.(Pep 2498)127/17 : Lord, þou schalt ʒiue me hert a schelde aʒein þe fende.\nc1400(?a1300) KAlex.(LdMisc 622)808 : Kyng Philippe…wolde…Ʒiue hym armes and maken hym kniʒth.\n?a1425(c1380) Chaucer Bo.(Benson-Robinson)4.m.7.9 : Agamenon desirede to yeven sayles to the Grykkyssche naveye, and boughte ayein the wyndes by blood.\na1450 PNoster R.Hermit (Westm-S 3)15/18 : Haþ God ʒeuen þe fleisch to þe soule as a wyntir roobe to hille þee fro tempestis & stormes.\nc1450(1410) Walton Boeth.(Lin-C 103)p.22 : I yaf þe armour good and stronge.\nc1450 Ponthus (Dgb 185)2/2 : The sowdeyn…yeave theym that thei nedyd for to wer vpon the Cristen.\na1475 Siege Troy(1) (Hrl 525)194/1308 : Yeve me hors and armis also.\nc1175 Orm.(Jun 1)7350 : Þeʒʒ gæfenn swa þurrh þatt Off soþ mecnesse bisne.\na1225(c1200) Vices & V.(1) (Stw 34)137/10 : He ʒaif ancres and hermites ðe luuieð onnesse gode forbisne ðe world to flene.\na1225(c1200) Vices & V.(1) (Stw 34)143/14 : For to ʒiuene forbisne heremites and ancres, ðe annesse aʒen to luuen and to healden ouer alle oðre manne.\nc1275 Ken.Serm.(LdMisc 471)215/35 : Þer of us yeft ensample þo þrie kinges of heþenesse.\na1325(c1280) SLeg.Pass.(Pep 2344)129 : To þe temple he ʒeode riʒt To ʒiue vs cristene men ensaumple to go to chirche.\n(c1387-95) Chaucer CT.Prol.(Manly-Rickert)A.505 : Wel oghte a preest ensample for to yiue By his clennesse how that his sheep sholde lyue.\na1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)28319 : Wit myn lastes in many thyng Gafe i oþer men il bisening.\nc1400 Wycl.Blasph.(Bod 647)412 : Crist hungred nevere bot when he chees to hungre so, and ʒif ensaumple of penaunce.\n?a1425 Orch.Syon (Hrl 3432)278/27 : Ʒe doon yuel to ʒoure neiʒboris, for to ʒeue hem siche ensaumplis of cursid lyuynge.\nc1440(a1401) Life Bridlington in NM 71 (Yale 331)p.143 : He gaf insample in al thing.\na1450(a1401) Chastising GC (Bod 505)137/3 : Þat glorious ladi and modir of loue ʒaf us ensample in lyueng hou we shulden loue.\na1450 Castle Persev.(Folg V.a.354)2174 : Oure…Lord…Ʒaf example to charyte.\nc1470 Bible F.(Cleve-W q091.92-C468)53/14 : What that he did or seid it was to geue us good ensamples.\nc1475(?c1400) Wycl.Apol.(Dub 245)2 : Wan þe heldar gifiþ ensaumple to þe ʒong to deþ, þer is he to be stregun wiþ scharp blamyng.\na1500(?a1390) Mirk Fest.(GoughETop 4)263/21 : Befor deþe þay euen yche man and woman ensampull.\na1500(1422) Yonge SSecr.(Rwl B.490)158/31 : Goode essampill to oure neghbors be yeue.\na1500 Chartier Treat.Hope (Rwl A.338)122/7 : He Himself taught the a fourme of thy prayere and yave the a patron whereaftir thou shuldest werke.\na1375(1335-1361) WPal.(KC 13)1172 : I nagult him never to gif him enchesoun forto wirch me no wrong.\n(a1387) Trev.Higd.(StJ-C H.1)7.157 : Who so spareth a þeef, he geveþ cause [Higd.(2): ʒiffethe occasion] þat an innocent be slayn.\n(a1402) Trev.DCur.(Hrl 1900)70/14 : Þei bigunne þe cause at Londoun & ʒaf occasioun to oþere freres of oþere ordres.\n?a1425 Chauliac(3) (Htrn 95)32/8 : Þe tunge is a fleischie partikel…ʒeuynge vtilite oþer profite for to gouerne þe mete in a manes mouþe.\n(1432) Paston (Gairdner)2.34 : For the…eschuyng of eny thing that mighte yeve empeschement or let therto, [etc.].\nc1450 Mandev.(4) (CovCRO Acc.325/1)1120 : God hym yaff a welle faire chaunce.\n(1452) Paston1.67 : I thowt also þat I had neuer geff cawse to non of my lordis hous to ow me evill.\na1475 Godstow Reg.(Rwl B.408)212/2 : In no wise yeve occasion for ony maner arreragis of the forsaid rente.\na1500(1413) *Pilgr.Soul (Eg 615)2.16.41b : Synnes of hir fornfadres schal not be punysshid upon the children…excepte þat if othir hath yowe cause and occasion of synne to othire.\na1500(a1450) Ashmole SSecr.(Ashm 396)40/16 : Yeve neuer to men occasion to speke ill by the.\na1500(1465) Leversedge Vision (Add 34193)123/464 : Never kysse woman to þat entent to gif mene or stire by any mene þi body unto synn.\nc1540(?a1400) Destr.Troy (Htrn 388)2089 : Thow ges matir to men mony day after, fforto speke of þi spede.\na1150(?OE) Vsp.D.Hom.(Vsp D.14)91/1 : On þan þreottende dæige fealleð sunne & mone & ealle steorren, for þan þe heo geafen leome þan yfelen mannen.\nc1175(?OE) Bod.Hom.(Bod 343)86/25 : God sylf ʒyfæð alle monnum lif & gast.\nc1175 Orm.(Jun 1)13842 : Heffne uss ʒifeþþ lihht Þurrh sunne & mone & sterrness.\na1200 Trin.Hom.(Trin-C B.14.52)35 : Adam…forleas þe fiffeald mihten þe god him gef þo þe he him shop.\na1250 Orison Lord (Lamb 487)185 : Þu þet ʒeuest hire [sun] liht…aliht mi þester heorte.\na1325(c1250) Gen.& Ex.(Corp-C 444)681 : Euerilc man he gaf lif.\na1325(c1250) Gen.& Ex.(Corp-C 444)2609 : God haued swilc fair-hed him geuen.\nc1330(?c1300) Spec.Guy (Auch)212,215 : God…ʒeueþ wit in alle craftes…And ʒaf to man fre power To chese…Þe euel to late and god to take.\na1375(1335-1361) WPal.(KC 13)1559 : Nay, bi God þat me gaf þe gost and þe soule.\n(c1395) Chaucer CT.WB.(Manly-Rickert)D.401 : Deceite, wepyng, spynnyng god hath yeue To wommen kyndely.\n(c1395) Chaucer CT.WB.(Manly-Rickert)D.611-12 : Venus me yaf my lust my likerousnesse, And Mars yaf me my sturdy hardynesse.\na1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)539,541 : Þe ouer fir gis [Frf: gifues; Göt: ges] man his sight…þis vnder wynd him gis his aand.\nc1400 Bk.Mother (Bod 416)45/18 : Þei wollen be a sterre ʒeuynge liʒt to men wiþ here goode liuinge.\n(?1406) Hoccl.MR (Hnt HM 111)99 : Reson youen is to me For to discerne a vertu from a vice.\n?a1425(c1380) Chaucer Bo.(Benson-Robinson)3.m.6.4,6 : On allone is fadir of thynges…He yaf to the sonne his bemes…to the moone hir hornes…he yaf the sterres to the hevene.\n?a1425 Chauliac(3) (Htrn 95)39/23 : The maker of alle þinges made in man hondes in stede off armes and ʒaf him resoun…and discrecioun.\na1450 Castle Persev.(Folg V.a.354)25 : God hathe govym [read: govyn] Man fre arbritracion Wheþyr he wyl hymse[lf] saue or hys soule sp[y]ll.\na1450 Castle Persev.(Folg V.a.354)2560 : Mankynd to don what he wyl do, God hath ʒouyn hym a fre wylle.\na1450 Yk.Pl.(Add 35290)16/56 : To swilke a lorde…Be…louynge Þat to vs such a dyngnyte Has geffynne.\nc1450 Mandev.(4) (CovCRO Acc.325/1)401 : The sonne to the daie gaff light.\na1450 St.Editha (Fst B.3)958 : Þis lampe ʒefth gret lyʒt To euery creature abouʒt hit dwellynge.\nc1460 Tree & Fruits HG (McC 132)10/17 : Oure lord haþe yif to a man and a womman to eeris and o tonge.\n?a1475 LDirige(2) (Dc 322)346 : My wyttes…thow me yaue to rewle with me.\nc1475(a1449) Lydg.Horns (LdMisc 683)34 : Hornes wer yove to bestys ffor dyffence.\na1500(a1460) Towneley Pl.(Hnt HM 1)23/16 : God gaf lucifer most lightnes.\na1500 Bod.EMisc.Lapid.(BodEMisc e.558)24/60 : Hit shall hele the sekenesse thorow the vertu that god hathe yoven to the saphire.\na1475 Sidrak & B.(Lnsd 793)11385 : God haþ ʒoue him þe might To knowe þe houres of day and night.\nTo spare (sb., someone’s life).\n(c1384) WBible(1) (Dc 369(2))Deeds 27.24 : God hath ʒouun to thee alle that ben in schipp with thee.\nc1430(c1386) Chaucer LGW (Benson-Robinson)1323 : Yeve my child his lyf!\n(a1470) Malory Wks.(Win-C)107/21 : As they sholde have bene slayne, there com four fayre ladyes…And…at the requeste of thes ladyes, they gaff sir Gawayne and Gaherys their lyves.\n(a) To make payment, pay; also, in partitive construction: ~ of, pay tribute from (one’s goods); (b) to pay (an exaction, a rent, tax, tribute, etc.); pay (money or the equivalent) for some consideration, as in a bribe, discharge of a debt, payment of wages, etc.; also fig.; make (payment for sth. done), pay (money for a purchase); also, pay (a sum as recompense, interest, etc.);—usu. with indirect obj.; (c) to exchange (sb. or sth. for sb. or sth. else), trade; give up (sth. in favor of sth. else); ~ for; (d) to give (sth.) in return for something given or done; give (sth. on condition that sth. is done); repay (evil for good, hate for love, etc.);—usu. with indirect obj.; also fig.; also, restore (sth. to its rightful owner); ~ ayen; (e) to sell (sb. or sth. to sb.), supply in exchange for money; also, sell (sth. for money); also fig. [last quot.]; (f) to restore (to sb. or sth. a faculty, quality, health, etc. that has been diminished or lost).\nShow 75 Quotations Hide 75 Quotations\na1200 Trin.Hom.(Trin-C B.14.52)179 : Ʒif he [lord] net him [tenant] to ʒiuene, þat beoð strengðe and refloc.\n(c1384) WBible(1) (Dc 369(2))Mat.20.14 : Y wole ʒeue and to this the laste man, as and to thee.\nc1475 Wisd.(Folg V.a.354)647 : More þan I take spende I threys thre; Sumtyme I yeff, sumtyme þey me.\na1500 GRom.(Glo 42)746/15 : Þey are fayne to gyfe hem of þeir goode to be in pece.\na1121 Peterb.Chron.(LdMisc 636)an.777 : Seo Cuðbriht geaf þone abbote L punde þær fore.\na1121 Peterb.Chron.(LdMisc 636)an.1103 : He forgeaf þa þreo þusend marc þe him seo cyng Heanrig be foreweard ælce geare gifan sceolde.\na1150(OE) Vsp.D.Hom.Nicod.(Vsp D.14)79/31 : Heo gegaderedan mycelne sceatt & geafon [OE sealdon; L dederunt] heom, & bæden þæt heo scolden secgen þæt his cnihtes comen & þone lichame heom forstælen, þa þa heo slæpende wæron.\n?a1160 Peterb.Chron.(LdMisc 636)an.1137 : Hi læiden gæildes on the tunes…þa þe uurecce men ne hadden nan more to gyuen, þa ræueden hi & brendon alle the tunes.\nc1175 Orm.(Jun 1)3281 : Himm off all hiss kinedom Illc mann an peninng ʒæfe.\nc1175 Orm.(Jun 1)5220 : Whatt willt tu þatt icc ʒife þe Forr all þin swinnc to mede?\na1200 PMor.(Trin-C B.14.52)64 : Þar me sal ure werkes weiʒen…And ʒieuen us ure werkes lean after ure erninge.\nc1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)2386 : He him wolde ʒeuen al þat gold þe he haueden i Denemark lond.\nc1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)4578 : Þe king…hit [tribute] heom leofliche ʒeaf.\n?a1300 Jacob & J.(Bod 652)165 : More þen he axede for Iosep he ʒaf.\nc1300(c1250) Floris (Cmb Gg.4.27)126 : For his niʒtes gestinge He ʒaf his oste an hundred schillinge.\na1325(c1250) Gen.& Ex.(Corp-C 444)844 : xii ger he weren under is hond, And gouen him gouel of here lond.\n1389 Nrf.Gild Ret.119 : Ewery broyer or syster chal offeryn a ferʒyng, and yewen anoyr for ye soule.\n(a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)5.4517 : Sche…yifth me noght to live by.\na1400(c1250) Floris (Eg 2862)195 : Þe Amyral hur bouʒt…And gafe for hur…Seuyn sythes of gold her wyʒt.\na1400 Ancr.(Pep 2498)138/19 : Synne is þe deuels gouel þat he ʒiueþ to oker.\n(1420) Doc.in Morsbach Origurk.7 : If ane mon distresse þe forsayd Thurstan, for ane maner of rych or tytull, claymyng…for xlviii s. and iv d. be ʒere…þat þe forsayd john of langton schall ju [?read: jiue] þe forsayd Thurstan hys eires agayne…þe valewe þer-of, so þat þe forsayd Thurstan haue noe harme þer-bye.\n(1423) Reg.Chichele in Cant.Yk.S.42 (Lamb 69)268 : I wul þat my mantels…ben solde to þe men þat wil gif most for hom.\na1425(?a1400) RRose (Htrn 409)5569 : What wolde he thanne ha yowe to ha bought To knowen openly her thought?\nc1425 Mirror LM&W (Hrl 45)132/6 : Þe borwer ʒeueþ hym somwhat for his lenynge and he takiþ hit.\n(1439) Doc.in Collect.Topogr.515 : All ye londe…to be sold…to him that wil geue most therfore.\na1450(a1400) SChart.Chr.(Add 37049)15 : Luf þi neghbour as I luf þe: Þis is þe rent þou sal gyf [vr. yelde vnto] me, As to þe chefe lord of þe fe.\nc1450(1369) Chaucer BD (Benson-Robinson)765 : I have ever yit Be tributarye and yive rente To Love.\nc1450 Capgr.St.Kath.(Arun 396)prol.63 : He is now ded; þou hast ʒoue hym hys wage.\n(1463) Acc.Howard in RC 57227 : Govyn to Symkyn Bacsterys man that browte the jerfacon…xij d.\n(1472) Plea & Mem.R.Lond.Gildh.61 : They were fayn to yeve ccc li. to the said Alexandre to have peas wt hym.\na1475 Godstow Reg.(Rwl B.408)219/24 : The…mynchons gafyn to hym two marke of syluyr.\nc1475(?c1400) Wycl.Apol.(Dub 245)9 : To selle is…to reseyue þing for price ʒeuun.\n(1477) Paston2.423 : Hery Cook wold goo with youre swanys, for his yefte chuld be vj s. viij d., and therefore he wold yeffe you his labore, be so ye payd for his costys.\na1500(c1410) Dives & P.(Htrn 270)2.182 : Raþer þe lewyd man or woman schulde baptysyn þe child þan þey schuldyn ʒeuyn ony monye for þe bapteme.\na1500 GRom.(Glo 42)747/6 : He wille geffe hem nowʒte.\n-?-(1435) Doc.in Power Craft Surg.313 : The seid persoone ʒeue to the iiij maistris her fees.\nc1175 Orm.(Jun 1)8211 : Þeʒʒ [Holy Innocents] gæfenn heore shorrte lif Forr eche lifess blisse.\na1200 PMor.(Trin-C B.14.52)146 : Swines brade is wel swete; swo is of wilde diere, Ac al to diere he hit abuið þe ʒiefð þar-fore his swiere.\nc1230(?a1200) Ancr.(Corp-C 402)203/11 : Nalde amon for an of þeos ʒeouen al þet he ahte?\nc1275 Þene latemeste dai (Clg A.9)14 : Nolde ich ʒeuen enne peni for his weden alle.\n(c1300) Havelok (LdMisc 108)1643 : Hwan ubbe hauede þe gold ring, Hauede he youenet for no þing.\na1350 A wayle whyt (Hrl 2253)33 : Al for on y wolde ʒeue þreo.\nc1330(?c1300) Guy(1) (Auch)826 : A stede of gret bounte…no schuld be ʒouen for a cuntre [vr. It is worthe all a contree].\n(a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)Prov.21.18 : For þe riʒtwise shal ben ʒouen þe vnpitouse.\na1450(1411) Many man (Dgb 102)22 : Þou…ʒaf for an appyl þe most of prys.\nc1450 ?C.d'Orl.Poems (Hrl 682)180/5386 : Yowre gantiles, For myn hool hert, of yowre the quantite As of a pynnys hed me yaue or lasse.\nc1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)14111 : He wolde Childriche ʒeouen of his riche al biʒeonde þerere Humbre for he him scolde helpe to fihten wið his æme.\n(c1300) Havelok (LdMisc 108)485 : Al denemark i wile you yeue To þat forward þu late me liue.\n(a1333) Herebert My volk (Add 46919)32 : Þou me ʒyfst a croune of þorn.\na1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)16476 : Here i yeld yow yur mone; ges me a-gain mi war.\na1400(?a1325) Bonav.Medit.(1) (Hrl 1701)331 : Euyl for gode þey haue me ʒoue And also grete hate for my loue.\nc1400(?c1390) Gawain (Nero A.10)1638 : Alle my get I schal yow gif agayn.\na1425(?a1400) RRose (Htrn 409)183 : Coueitise…eggith folk…To take and yeue right nought ageyne.\n?a1425 Orch.Syon (Hrl 3432)399/8 : Þe wil of man is but oon, & for þat oon I ʒeue him an hundrid in þis liif.\n(c1450) Capgr.St.Aug.(Add 36704)30/26 : What-so-euer þou fyndist and gyuyst not a-geyn þou stelist.\nc1475 Wisd.(Folg V.a.354)73 : Wat may I yeue yow ageyn for þis, O Creator?\n1485(a1470) Malory Wks.(Caxton:Vinaver)16/29 : Arthur maade the londes to be yeven ageyne unto them that oughte hem.\na1500 GRom.(Glo 42)738/20 : Many daye I haue fedde þe & sustenede þe; What wylte þou gyffe me nowe?\n?a1300 Jacob & J.(Bod 652)188 : Putifar…ʒiueþ him [Joseph] Pharaon þe king.\na1325(c1250) Gen.& Ex.(Corp-C 444)1500 : Esau…gafe it him wel sikerlike.\nc1330(?a1300) Arth.& M.(Auch)4146 : He wold hem ʒiue for monay.\na1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)4855 : Þair siluer he tok and gaue þam corn.\na1425 Wycl.Serm.(Bod 788)1.67 : Feyned lettris of fraternite wolen þei ʒyve to symple men.\nc1475(?c1400) Wycl.Apol.(Dub 245)9 : To selle is þe hauer to ʒeue his þing for price tane.\nc1475 Chartier Quad.(1) (UC 85)191/13 : They wold gyf grete cheepe the blood of the noble men.\nc1175(?OE) Bod.Hom.(Bod 343)112/19 : God ʒyfð heom [sinful stars] æft heoræ fulle brihtnesse.\nc1175 Orm.(Jun 1)15507 : He draf ut off wode menn Defless & ʒaff hemm hæle.\na1225(OE) Vsp.A.Hom.Init.Creat.(Vsp A.22)229 : Dumben he forgeaf getocnisse and deafum hercnunge, Deofel seocun and wodan h[e] ʒeaf ʒewitt.\na1200 Trin.Hom.(Trin-C B.14.52)135 : He giaf his fader mihte to speken.\n(c1390) Chaucer CT.ML.(Manly-Rickert)B.562 : Yif me my sighte agayn.\na1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)14078 : Iesus…Com…Giueand [Göt: Giuand] mani seke þair hele.\na1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)18544 : Þaa Iuus sau þis ilk man…To parlesi and to mesele And to þe wode gifand þair hele.\n?a1450 Macer (Stockh Med.10.91)169 : Þis wole ʒive hering to hem þat been deef be sikenesse.\na1475 Sidrak & B.(Lnsd 793)7534 : Sleep…ʒeueþ might to al þe body.\na1475 Sidrak & B.(Lnsd 793)11833 : Þe blinde he shal ʒeue sighte And þe croked hise lymes righte.\nIn phrases, freq. negative, indicating disdain, indifference, or disregard: (a) ne ~ nought of, ne ~ no-thing of, ~ no del of, etc., to give nothing for (sb. or sth.), care nothing for, have no interest in, have no regard for, pay no heed to; ~ litel (litel charge, litel tale, etc.) of, give little for (sb. or sth.), care little about, have little concern for; no ~ of, care nothing about (sb. or sth.); also, with inf.: ~ nought, have no concern (about doing sth.), scruple not (to do sth.); (b) ~ not a bene (pulled hen, etc.) of, ~ nought a lek for, ne ~ nought a strau (on gos winge, etc.) of, ne ~ a torde for, etc., to give not a bean (plucked hen, goose wing, leek, turd, etc.) for (sb. or sth., God), have no concern for, regard as worthless, pay no heed to; (c) ~ no force, to pay no heed; pay no heed (to sth.), care not (about sth.); also, with inf. or clause: have no concern (to do sth., what occurred, etc.); ~ litel tale, care little (how sth. is); ~ not a mite, ne ~ a gras, care not a bit (though sth. happen).\nc1225(?c1200) St.Juliana (Bod 34)17/182 : Nawiht ne ʒeoue ich for inc.\nc1300 SLeg.Chris.(Hrl 2277)180 : Þis wimmen ʒeue him liʒt ansuere as hi ne ʒeue of him noʒt.\nc1325(c1300) Glo.Chron.A (Clg A.11)2685 : He ne ʒef of is lif noʒt, is felawes to awreke.\nc1330(?c1300) Guy(1) (Auch)241 : Þer of no ʒaf he riʒt nouʒt.\n1372 Gold & al (Adv 18.7.21)7 : Ʒef i litel of kith or kyn For þer is alle gode.\n(c1385) Chaucer CT.Kn.(Manly-Rickert)A.1284 : Of my wo thou yeuest litel charge.\nc1400(?a1300) KAlex.(LdMisc 622)6923 : Kyn Alisaunder…Makeþ hym bliþe, and noþing wrooþ…Als he ne ʒaf noþing þerof.\nc1400(?a1387) PPl.C (Hnt HM 137)22.456 : Of gile ne of gabbynge gyueþ þei neuere tale.\na1425(?a1400) RRose (Htrn 409)6375 : I dide hem a tegetrie, But therof yeue I a lytel tale.\n?a1425(?a1350) Castleford Chron.(Göt Hist 740)25230 : He gaf na mar of his assent.\nc1425(c1400) Ld.Troy (LdMisc 595)3964 : The Troyens ʒeue of vs no dele…Thei ben of herte so stoute.\na1450 St.Editha (Fst B.3)3457 : Þe kyng…commandede þe water and þe wynde…Bot of his commaundyng þey ʒeue ryʒt nouʒt.\na1450 Yk.Pl.(Add 35290)29/14 : To greeffe grete god gaffe they right noght.\nc1450(c1350) Alex.& D.(Bod 264)841 : Hit semeþ, by ʒoure dedes, Þat ʒe no giuen of no gome.\nc1450(c1400) Sultan Bab.(Gar 140)1721 : Of my nede gyfe thou no coost.\na1500 I have grete marvell (Lin-C 133)13 : Off me sho gyffis ryght noght.\nc1275(?c1250) Owl & N.(Clg A.9)1686 : A tort ne ʒiue ich for oþ [read: ow] alle.\n(c1300) Havelok (LdMisc 108)315 : Þerof ne yaf he nouth a stra.\nc1330 7 Sages(1) (Auch)116/2398 : Of hem ne ʒiue i nowt an hepe.\n(c1387-95) Chaucer CT.Prol.(Manly-Rickert)A.177 : He yaf nat of that text a pulled hen That seith that hunters been nat holy men.\nc1400(c1378) PPl.B (LdMisc 581)4.36 : Þei ne gyueth nouʒte of god one gose wynge.\n(1402) MSS PRO in App.Bk.Lond.E.282 : I seide yat kyng herry ʒaf nowt of hem alle a peny.\na1425(?a1400) RRose (Htrn 409)6464 : I yeue not of her harme a bene!\na1425 Siege Troy(1) (LinI 150)124/1580 : Y no ʒeue a sore for heom alle.\na1450 Castle Persev.(Folg V.a.354)479 : Of God ne of good man ʒeuyt he not a hawe.\na1450 Castle Persev.(Folg V.a.354)768 : Loke þou ʒeue not a lous Of þe day þat þou schalt deye.\nc1450(c1380) Chaucer HF (Benson-Robinson)1708 : They yeven noght a lek For fame ne for such renoun.\n?a1475 Ludus C.(Vsp D.8)29/22 : Thow my fadyr I nevyr se, I ʒyf not þer of An hawe.\na1425(a1396) Maidstone PPs. (Wht)102 : He…yeuith no force it [conscience] to defyle.\na1425(?a1400) RRose (Htrn 409)4602 : If my lust he wolde acheve…I yeue no force what felle on me.\n?a1425 Orch.Syon (Hrl 3432)283/26 : Alle siche wrecchide curatis…ʒeuen no force þouʒ þei seen her sogetis in þe feendis hondis.\na1450 Castle Persev.(Folg V.a.354)247 : Þou synne my sowle sese I ʒeue not a myth.\na1450 Castle Persev.(Folg V.a.354)1002 : Goth now forth and gyue ʒe no fors.\na1450 Castle Persev.(Folg V.a.354)2169 : Þou þou speke euyl, I ne ʒeue a gres.\nc1475 Mankind (Folg V.a.354)75 : I gyff no force, by Sent Tanne!\na1500(c1410) Dives & P.(Htrn 270)1.193 : Many of þo ʒeuyn lytil tale how euele þe pore folc faryth.\na1500(?c1450) Merlin (Cmb Ff.3.11)429 : She…yaf no force of nothinge that myght be-falle.\n(a) To convey temporary possession of (sth.) on loan, lend; also fig.; ~ oute bi eschaunge, ~ in leninge, ~ to usure, etc.; (b) to hand over (sth., oneself) as a pledge or an earnest; deliver (a hostage) in pledge; pledge (one’s word); also, wager (sth.);—freq. with indirect obj.; (c) to give (a woman in marriage), arrange the betrothal or marriage of (a woman); give (sb. a woman as wife or companion); provide (a husband for one’s daughter); also, grant (sb. a lover) [quot. c1385]; of Nature: provide (a mate for every fowl); (d) to entrust or commit (sb. or sth.) into someone’s charge or keeping; entrust (sb. or sth. to sb.); refl. entrust oneself (to someone’s grace), throw oneself (upon someone’s mercy); ~ in kepinge (to kepen, unto your governaunce, etc.); (e) to delegate (authority, judgment, etc. to sb.); also, confer (a badge or token of authority on sb.), bestow; with inf.: commission (sb. to do sth.), delegate, authorize; ~ in honde, give (sb.) the responsibility (to do sth.).\na1225(c1200) Vices & V.(1) (Stw 34)79/6 : Se ðe ne ʒifð naht his eihte te goule, [etc.].\na1425(?a1400) RRose (Htrn 409)2373 : Thyn herte…if thou yevest it in lenyng, I holde it but a wrecchid thyng.\na1425 Serm.in Med.St.17(2) (Add 37677)227 : Þo men schulen in Godis hel, þat is heuene, þat ʒeuyþ nouʒt her money to usure.\na1450-a1500(1436) Libel EP (Warner)412 : This money…They wyll…profre…To Englysshe marchaundis to yeve it oute by eschaunge.\nc1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)2728 : Ʒisles heo him ʒeouen sone & his men bicome.\nc1330(c1250) Floris (Auch)380 : Þou schalt bleþeliche ʒiuen hit him.\nc1330 Roland & V.(Auch)584 : Rouland him trewþe ʒaf, So he most bring a staf.\n(a1387) Trev.Higd.(StJ-C H.1)7.99 : Canut…made alle þe ostage, þat ware somtyme ʒiffen [Higd.(2): men taken as plegges; L obsides…traditos] to his fader…be kutte, handes and nose.\na1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)13861 : Þai his suete bodi had schedd, And gin him self for vs in wedd.\n(1400) Inquis.Miscel.(PRO)7.59 : He wolde yeve al the gode that he hadde…yn covenant that the hurʒl of Huntyngdoun hadde be makyd kyng of Engelond.\nc1475(?c1400) Wycl.Apol.(Dub 245)4 : If…þat seruaunt obliche him to do so, ʒefing feiþ to þis, [etc.].\na1500(a1450) Ashmole SSecr.(Ashm 396)43/9 : Breke not thy feith giwe, neyther thy bonde confermed.\na1500 GRom.(Glo 42)749/18 : Þou gaffe me þi trowth þat þou schwldest be my wyfe.\na1121 Peterb.Chron.(LdMisc 636)an.1109 : Ðær wurdon þa forewearda full worhte & þa aðas gesworene his dohter þam Casere to gifene.\na1126 Peterb.Chron.(LdMisc 636)an.1126 : Mid him com…his dohter þæt he æror hafde giuen þone kasere Heanri…to wife.\nc1175 Orm.(Jun 1)19827 : Herodian…wass…gifenn till Herode King.\nc1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)547 : Þe king ʒef Brutun his dohter.\nc1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)4743 : Suggeð him ful iwis ich ʒifuen [Otho: ʒefue] mine dohter Genuis.\n(c1300) Havelok (LdMisc 108)1249 : On þe nith als goldeborw lay, Sory and sorwful was she ay…Þat shere [read: she were] yeuen un-kyndelike.\nc1325(c1300) Glo.Chron.A (Clg A.11)282 : An doʒter ich abbe of gret pris…Ich ʒivis [vr. Y ʒeue] þe to þi wif.\nc1330(?c1300) Bevis (Auch)43/918 : King…Ʒemme þe douʒter to wiue!\na1375(1335-1361) WPal.(KC 13)1471 : Þe word went wide how þe mayde was ʒeve.\n(a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)1 Esd.9.12 : Ʒoure doʒtres ne ʒyue ʒee to þe sones of hem.\n(c1385) Chaucer CT.Kn.(Manly-Rickert)A.2260 : Yif me my loue, thow blisful lady deere.\nc1400(c1378) PPl.B (LdMisc 581)9.161 : It is an oncomely couple…To ʒyuen a ʒonge wenche to an olde feble.\nc1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)5.1532 : He hadde a douʒter…Þat whilom was ʒoven in mariage To Egistus.\na1425(a1382) WBible(1) (Corp-O 4)Gen.3.12 : The woman…thow ʒaue me felow.\na1425 Siege Troy(1) (LinI 150)122/1558 : Priamus saide…Þat he nolde hire gyue to his enemy.\nc1430(c1380) Chaucer PF (Benson-Robinson)667 : Whan this werk al brought was to an ende, To every foul Nature yaf his make By evene acord.\nc1450(c1440) Scrope Othea (StJ-C H.5)58/28 : Whoo hath doughteris to marie…he schold take hede to whom he schall yeue theim.\na1450(a1338) Mannyng Chron.Pt.1 (Lamb 131)2281 : He þoughte his doughtres gyue hosebandes.\nc1450 Ponthus (Dgb 185)103/20 : We may not gyf hir to a bettre knyght.\na1475 Siege Troy(1) (Hrl 525)200/1550 : He and his Quene Woll yeue me his doughter Pollexene.\na1500(c1465) SEChron.(Lamb 306:Everett)1 : He hade…xxxiijti doughteres, the whiche were geven in to maryage to xxxiijti kynges of dyverse contres.\na1375(1335-1361) WPal.(KC 13)531 : I give me holly in his grace as gilty for þat ilk.\na1375(1335-1361) WPal.(KC 13)4781 : Bifore William þei felle on knes boþe and gove hem in his grace.\n(a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)2 Par.34.11 : Þei ʒifen it to þe craftis men & to masowns þat þei shulden bien hewyn stones.\na1425 Ben.Rule(1) (Lnsd 378)6/33 : Þe cuuent…es giuin [?read: giuin þe] at yeme.\nc1450 Ponthus (Dgb 185)5/2 : I yeve theym vnto your gouernaunce.\nc1475 Wisd.(Folg V.a.354)410 : Yt ys [read: Ys yt] leeffull to þis man To lewe hys labour…Hys chargys perysche þat Gode gaff duly?\na1500(?c1425) Spec.Sacer.(Add 36791)214/6 : Myʒhel commeþ with a grete multitude of angels, the which Myʒhel God ʒaf the sowles of seyntis…for to bryng hem in-to Paradise.\na1500(?a1450) GRom.(Hrl 7333)252 : She is yevin to me in kepyng.\na1500 Conq.Irel.(Rwl B.490)61/10 : The kynge…gywid hym to anothyr, and Put hym in Rathnyldys toure forto kepyn.\na1500 Conq.Irel.(Rwl B.490)73/32 : A parlement was sette, be-twen Hugh de Lacy, to whom the kynge had yewe Deuelyn to kepe…and the kynge of myth.\na1500 Partenay (Trin-C R.3.17)75 : Ye haue children good and fin…Here I you require, yeff me on…He shall be wel taught in curtesie and speche.\nc1540(?a1400) Destr.Troy (Htrn 388)11731 : Gedrit was the goode, & gon for to kepe To Sure men & certen þat sowme to deliuer.\n1123 Peterb.Chron.(LdMisc 636)an.1123 : Se pape sweðolode & gaf him his pallium.\nc1175 Orm.(Jun 1)17990 : Þe Faderr…hafeþþ ʒifenn himm inn hannd To weldenn alle þingess.\nc1330 Harrow.H.(Auch)179 : Þou ʒaue ous to ʒeme paradis.\nc1350 Apoc.(1) in LuSE (Hrl 874)p.44 : A coroune was ʒouen hym.\na1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)29240 : Mai nan a-soil bot pape allan, On [?read: Or] man he gise [Glb: gifes] til his pouste.\nc1450(c1440) Scrope Othea (StJ-C H.5)42/4 : Juno yaf Argus…this cowe to kepe.\n-?-(a1461) Doc.in HMC Rep.3 App.280a : The seid duke…had…as large power as any was gevyn to any ambassad.\n(1457) LRed Bk.Bristol2.185 : Hit shall be laufull to euery Maistur…when he departeth owte of the towne…to make a debite for tyme of his absence…yeuyng hym his hole powere and othe in perfourmyng of all the articles above wreten.\na1500 GRom.(Glo 42)774/15 : Þe secunde person in Trinite…Too whom all domes are gyue.\n(a) In partitive construction: ~ of, to give some of (sth.) for another’s use or consumption; give some of (sth. to sb.); (b) to serve (sb. food, drink, a drink, etc.), give (an animal its fodder, sth. as feed); also fig.; offer (sb. as if food for an animal) [1st quot.]; feed (sb., someone’s flesh, etc. to birds of prey); also, provide (water for drinking or washing), furnish; med. & veter. diet (sb., an animal) with (specified diet, certain foods), feed (a patient specified food or drink); ~ drinke (drinche), give (sb.) drink; also, fig. soak (sth.) [quot. ?1440, 1st]; ~ milk, nurse (a young child); also fig.; (c) in constructions with inf.: ~ (to, for to) drinken, to give (sb.) to drink; have (sb.) drink (sth.), let (sb.) drink (sth.); ~ (to, for to, at) eten, give (sb.) to eat; let (sb.) eat (sth.); ~ (to, at) souken, give suck, suckle; also, give (a young child, the young of an animal) suck, suckle, nurse; also fig.; (d) chiefly med. & veter. to administer (a medicine, medicinal herb, potion, etc.) internally; give (a patient, an animal, etc. sth. medicinal) to eat or drink;—also without obj. [1st quot.]; ~ (to) drinken, give (a patient sth.) to drink, have (a patient) drink (sth.); also, give (sth.) to drink [quot. a1500, 1st]; (e) eccl. & theol. to administer (the Eucharistic host to sb.), give (communion); also, administer (the chrism) in the sacrament of baptism or extreme unction; of Christ: offer (his body in the Eucharist); (f) to offer or allow the use of (one’s body to sb.) in a sexual relationship; also, proffer (one’s breast) to suckle a child.\nShow 88 Quotations Hide 88 Quotations\na1225(OE) Vsp.A.Hom.Init.Creat.(Vsp A.22)223 : Þat wif…ʒenam of þes trowes westm and æat and ʒiaf hire were and he æt.\na1300 Sayings St.Bede (Jes-O 29)314 : Ye nolde hede Ne yeuen of eure brede.\na1325(c1250) Gen.& Ex.(Corp-C 444)1492 : ‘Broðer iacob,’ quat esau, ‘Of ðis warme mete ðu gif me nu.’\nc1325(c1300) Glo.Chron.A (Clg A.11)4917 : Sire bissop, wu ne ʒifstus [vr. ʒefste vs] of þine wite brede Þat þou est þi sulf at þi masse?\na1425(a1382) WBible(1) (Corp-O 4)Gen.3.12 : Adam seide, ‘The woman…ʒaue to me of the tree, and I ete.’\nc1175 Orm.(Jun 1)3694 : He laʒʒ…Biforenn asse i cribbe, Swa summ he wære ʒifenn himm To wurrþenn himm to fode.\nc1175 Orm.(Jun 1)6163 : Þe birrþ…þrisstiʒ gifenn drinnke.\na1225(?OE) Vsp.A.Hom.(Vsp A.22)231 : Ʒef he frend were, me hine sceolde…ʒiefe him his formemete.\na1200 Trin.Hom.(Trin-C B.14.52)41 : He…gifeð us his holi fleis to daiwamliche bred and his holi blot to drunche.\n?c1250 PMor.(Eg 613(1))331 : Mest alle men he ʒiued [Eg(2): ʒiueð] drinke of one deofles scenche.\n?a1300(a1250) Harrow.H.(Dgb 86)79 : For on appel þat ich ʒaf him He is min and al is cun.\n(c1300) Havelok (LdMisc 108)911 : But yeueþ me inow to ete, Fir and water y wile yow fete.\nc1330(?c1300) Bevis (Auch)52/1087 : Ʒhe…Hire self ʒaf him water to hond.\n(a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)1 Kings 1.23 : Þe womman…ʒaf hyr sone mylc to þe tyme þat he schulde moeuyn hym a-wei fro þe mylc.\n(a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)1 Kings 17.46 : I schal ʒifen þe careynes…to dai to þe foules of heuene.\n(a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)Job 22.7 : Water to þe weri þou ʒeeue not.\n(a1387) Trev.Higd.(StJ-C H.1)5.459 : To men þat beeþ…unkonnynge, þou ʒaf nouʒt at þe bygynnynge þe mylk of good lore.\na1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)16944 : Again þat apell adam ete was gin [Göt: giuen; Trin-C: ʒyue] iesu þe gall.\na1400 Cursor (Frf 14)14056 : To my fete gaue þou me water nane.\na1400 Lanfranc (Ashm 1396)75/2 : To him þat is of a moist complexicioun…schulde not be ʒouen fleisch, fisch, mylk, eiren, ne no comfortable mete.\n?a1425 Mandev.(2) (Eg 1982)29/27 : In þat way þer es a well, to þe whilk Moyses ledd þam and gafe þam a drynk off.\nc1450(?1436) Siege Calais (Rome 1306)96 : The women…stuffed euery scaffolde…With boilled caudrons…Yif thay wolde haue sawted the wall, Al hote to gif hem drynke.\n(?1440) Palladius (DukeH d.2)1.82 : But forto take hit swete, atast…The bittrist erthe…An erthen potte…take and yf hit drynke In watir sweete.\n(?1440) Palladius (DukeH d.2)1.651 : Barly seed, or puls decoct & cold To yef hem [chicks] first is good & holsum holde.\na1450(c1410) Lovel.Grail (Corp-C 80)15.57 : Kynges flesch ʒoven schal be To Fowles Of Raveyne.\na1450 St.Editha (Fst B.3)487 : Syre kynge…ychaue ferre gone; Somme meyte ʒemme for charyte!\na1450 Treat.Horses (Sln 2584)95/140 : While þou curest þis hors, loke he be foddered with barli-straw, or ellus with hard hey; & prouendre ʒif him non, &, as ferforþ as þou may, let him not drynke.\nc1450(1410) Walton Boeth.(Lin-C 103)p.101 : Þe rennyng ryuer ʒaf hem lusty drynke.\nc1450 Mandev.(4) (CovCRO Acc.325/1)508 : Thei yafe hym eyselle and galle.\na1475 Friar & B.(Brog 2.1)p.49 : Thys mete thou haste gyfe me.\na1475 Hrl.Diseases Hawk A (Hrl 2340)22 : Gyfe hir [hawk] an hesy gorge.\nc1475(?c1400) Wycl.Apol.(Dub 245)89 : Ʒeuit meyt to þe hungry.\nc1475 *Mondeville (Wel 564)152b/a : Men in old tyme ʒauen drinkis in differently to men þat weren woundid.\na1500(?a1400) SLChrist (Hrl 3909)9610 : For vs to saue…his blode he ʒef vs forto drynke, hys flesche for mete in fourme of brede.\na1500(?a1390) Mirk Fest.(GoughETop 4)4/5 : When I was thursty, ʒe gaf me dryngke.\na1500 15c.Serm.Cycle(Hrl 2247:Powell)63/121 : He commyth for yefe vs his flessh and his blode in forme of brede.\na1500 Nicod.(4) (Hrl 149)79 : We schul yeue the to the bryddes of the ayre.\na1225(?OE) Lamb.Hom.(Lamb 487)129 : Moyses…ʒef þan folke drinken uppan þan hulle synai.\nc1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)6777 : Ʒef us drinken of þine beore.\n(c1300) Havelok (LdMisc 108)460 : We ne haue Herinne neyther knith ne knaue Þat yeueth us drinken.\nc1330(?a1300) Arth.& M.(Auch)2694 : Late…þi wiif…ʒiue it souke.\n(1340) Ayenb.(Arun 57)60/9 : Þe dyeules noriches…his children yeueþ zouke.\n1372 Ʒef þu ʒeuest (Adv 18.7.21)p.5 : Ʒef þu ʒeuest him eten inou, þanne must him slepen.\n(a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)Gen.19.33 : Þey ʒeuen [WB(2): ʒauen] to here fader to drynken wyne þat nyʒt.\n(a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)2 Kings 17.29 : Sobi…& Machir…offredyn to hym…whete & barli & mele…& þei ʒeefen to dauiþ & to þe puple…for to etyn.\n(c1390) Chaucer CT.Rv.(Manly-Rickert)A.4157 : The cradel at hir beddes feet is set To rokken and to yeue the child to sowke.\n(a1398) Trev.Barth.(Add 27944:Seymour)1262/35 : The femel bere…is ful besy to saue hire children, And þerfore sche…ʒiueþ hem souke [L lactat].\na1400 Lefdy blisful (Mert 248)4 : Lefdy blisful…Þou ʒoue hym souken of þi brest.\na1400 Primer (StJ-C G.24)38 : Thei ʒofen hym drinke galle.\nc1400 Bk.Mother (Bod 416)133/8 : Sinful men ʒeuen souke whanne þei wiþ…smeþe wordes steren a man to synne.\na1425(a1400) PConsc.(Glb E.9 & Hrl 4196)6191 : Yhe wald noght gyfe me at ete.\n(1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)537 : Ʒeem [?read: Ʒeeuin] or ʒeve soke [KC: ʒeuyn sokyn]: Lacto.\na1450(a1338) Mannyng Chron.Pt.1 (Lamb 131)12261 : Souke y gaf hure of my brest [vr. at souke I gaf hir of my pap; F Que jo norri a ma mamele].\na1450 Omnes gentes (Sln 2593)10 : Ʒeue vs onys drynkyn er we gon henne!\n(1451) Capgr.St.Gilb.(Add 36704)89/36 : This religion…had no tetes as ʒet, of prelates and souereynes, to gyue soke on-to þe tendyr age of her subiectis.\nc1460 Tree & Fruits HG (McC 132)60/8 : He…spekith him self to here hert and þer yiviþ here soke of þis swetnes of loue.\n1483 Cath.Angl.(Monson 168)349 : To yif to Sowke: lactare.\na1500(a1460) Towneley Pl.(Hnt HM 1)255/343 : Thay shall blys women baren that neuer child bare, And pappes that neuer gaf sowke.\na1500 Nicod.(4) (Hrl 149)71 : Than gaue they hym to drynke eysel and galle medlyd to-gedre, put yn a sponge, for as moche as he seyde that he had thyrst.\n?a1200(OE) Hrl.HApul.(Hrl 6258B)145/11 : Wið stanes þe on blædran wexan, cnuca þeos wyrt on wine…& ʒef haueþ fefere, ʒif on wætere.\nc1325(c1300) Glo.Chron.A (Clg A.11)1555 : Hii ʒeue him an quointe drench.\n(a1398) Trev.Barth.(Add 27944:Seymour)506/8 : Tofore þe risinge of þat sterre…it is perilous to ʒeue laxatif drinkes.\na1400 Lanfranc (Ashm 1396)232/28 : Þou schalt ʒeue him bi þe mouþ a medicyn for to purge fleume.\n?a1425(1373) *Lelamour Macer (Sln 5)22b : Stampe this erbe and yf the juis to him to drinke.\n?a1425(1373) *Lelamour Macer (Sln 5)64a : A beste that pissith blode, yff hym this erbe a-monge oþer gresse and he shall be hole.\n(?1440) Palladius (DukeH d.2)1.547 : Yef hem comyn ynough.\na1450 Liber Cophonis (Add 34111)49/382 : Ʒif hym colde atte ete as þe niʒtshode and oþer mo.\na1450 Treat.Horses (Sln 2584)99/185 : Ʒif him drynke herbes, beteyne, quycseluer.\n?a1450 Agnus Castus (Stockh 10.90)179/17-18 : Ʒef ony medesine schal be ʒewyn to distroye venym, it is good to ʒewe þer-with þe jus of þis herbe.\n?a1450 Macer (Stockh Med.10.91)101 : Yive þe pacient also to drinke þis decoccion lewke.\n?a1450 Macer (Stockh Med.10.91)196 : Ʒive þe pacient two scripulus of þis to drink in hoot water.\nc1450 Bod.483 Herbal (Bod 483)63/166 : Take the sede and brese hyt…and yeff þe seke to drynke þer-off.\na1475 Hrl.Bk.Hawking in Studia Neoph.16 (Hrl 2340)14 : Take the roote of confurye and sugur…and do seth it in a fresche grece with þe þyrde parte of hony, then draw it þorghe a feire clothe and ofte yeve thy hauke, and he shall heele.\nc1475(1392) *MS Wel.564 (Wel 564)86a/b : These ben…general to alle maner of venym wheþir þat it be ʒouen bi þe mouþ or ellis falle bi accident.\nc1484(a1475) Caritate SSecr.(Tak 38)172/24 : Qwan þu wulte yef a medycine, loke in qwat sygne be þe mone and þe sonne.\na1500 *Lanfranc CP (Wel 397)24b/28 : Make a powedre of hem and ʒef to drynke ij drames all a day.\na1500 *Lanfranc CP (Wel 397)29a/1 : The spycer…yafe hym a noble triacle…and leyde hym in his bede.\na1500 *Lanfranc CP (Wel 397)29a/4 : Þe spicer on his owyn hede ʒaufe hym another drame of þe selfe triacle and anoon he was hole.\na1225(?OE) Lamb.Hom.(Lamb 487)25 : Þe preost me walde eskien…hwa me scriue er he me ʒefe husul.\na1325(c1250) Gen.& Ex.(Corp-C 444)2458 : Cristene folc…ben smered ðor-quiles he liuen Wið crisme and olie in trewðe geuen.\n1372 In place (Adv 18.7.21)185 : Nu…he…ʒeft his bodi in furme of bred þat sal us alle borwe.\nc1425 Glo.Chron.A (Hrl 201:Wright)347/7 : Þe byssop yt nolde grante…To ʒyue hym þulke holy þyng.\nc1460 Tree & Fruits HG (McC 132)26/10 : This is þat mete wich…at þe last shal be yivin, to þi gret mede and reward of euer lastyng blisse.\na1500(?c1425) Spec.Sacer.(Add 36791)39/9 : He ʒaf to hure hure howsel of Goddis body after the masse.\na1500(?c1440) Lydg.HGS (Lnsd 699)319 : This Paschale Lamb…yaff His bodi to man in forme of bred.\na1400(c1303) Mannyng HS (Hrl 1701)7462 : Take…One of whom ʒoure loue wyl be, And ʒyueþ nat ʒoure bodyys to alle ylych fre.\n?a1430 ?Hoccl.Poems PS Compl.Virg.(Hnt HM 111)242 : A modir þat so soone hir cote…rente sy men neuere noon or this For chyld…which þat shee of hir body baar, To yeue her tete.\na1450 Parton.(1) (UC C.188)2531 : Melior…to yow hath yove [vr. geffe] Hir body.\n(a) To hand (sb.) over into the custody of (sb.), deliver (sb. to sb. else); release (a captive to his people) [1st quot.]; also, hand over (a corpse) for burial; ~ over; ~ to dom, hand (sb.) over to judgment; (b) to hand over (sth., an animal) into the physical custody of (sb.); also, hand (sb. sth.) for some purpose; turn over (to sb. a riderless horse) on the field; hand over (a surrendered city to sb.); (c) to bring out (sth. kept in reserve) for use, bring forth so as to hand over.\nc1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)450 : Ʒeue us þe king.\nc1350 MPPsalter (Add 17376)139.9 : Ne ʒyf me nouʒt [Rolle: Gif me noght…That is, suffire me noght to be gifen; L Ne tradas me], fro my desire, to þe sinʒer.\n(a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)1 Kings 11.12 : Ʒife ʒee þe men & wee schul slen hem.\n(a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)1 Kings 17.46 : Þe lord schal ʒifen þee in my hond & I schal smyten þee.\n(a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)Ecclus.48.23 : He remembride not þe synnes of hem, ne ʒaf hem to þer enemys.\na1400(?a1325) Bonav.Medit.(1) (Hrl 1701)848 : Ʒyueþ hym me hole, for ded ʒe seeþ he ys; Y wyl hym byrye.\n(a1438) MKempe A (Add 61823)64/12 : Þei ʒouyn hir ouyr to þe legate, & seyden vttyrly þei woldyn no mor medyl wyth hir.\nc1450 NPass.(Add 31042)128/1248 : We biddene the Gyffe hym to dome to hange one tree.\nc1475 Chartier Quad.(1) (UC 85)185/1 : Oure souerain lord is yeuen…in the handes of his mortall enmye.\na1500 SLeg.Pass.(Vsp A.3)962/14 : Pilat…told þe Iews He hade geen his body And bad þat þai suld loke þat he wore ded.\nc1540(?a1400) Destr.Troy (Htrn 388)12053 : Achilles Was grauntid to be grauyn, & gyuyn to his toumbe.\nc1175(?OE) HRood (Bod 343)34/7 : Iudas ʒeaf sancta helenæ þa fif næʒlæs ðe ure drihten mid inæʒlæd wæs.\nc1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)14590 : What wult þu ʒiuen me ʒif ich þe burh ʒiuen [?read: ʒiue] þe?\nc1380 Firumb.(1) (Ashm 33)1243 : Vnder hur mantel sche hidde þe staf & turnde aʒe wel faste & hym to hur lady sone sche ʒaf.\n(c1390) Chaucer CT.Pard.(Manly-Rickert)C.922 : I haue relikes and pardon in my male…Whiche were me yeuen by the Popes hond.\na1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)5189 : Gis [Frf: giues] me mi clathes.\na1425(c1333-52) Minot Poems (Glb E.9)30/88 : He was wardaine of þe toune…Kayes of þe toun to him er gifen.\n?a1425(c1400) Mandev.(1) (Tit C.16)65/2 : Þere…is the place where oure lady appered to seynt Thomas the Apostle after hire Assumpcioun & ʒaf him hire gyrdyll.\n?a1425 *MS Htrn.95 (Htrn 95)90b/a : He schal ʒif þat ende to summe oþer mynister for to holde.\na1450 PNoster R.Hermit (Westm-S 3)19/21 : God made hem pilchis & ʒaf hem to were.\nc1450 Ponthus (Dgb 185)15/8 : Yeve me my myrrour.\n(a1470) Malory Wks.(Win-C)28/21,25 : The Kynge with the Hondred Knyghtes…ran unto sir Kay and smote hym downe, and toke hys horse and gaff hym kynge Lotte, whereof he seyde gramercy; Whan sir Gryfflet saw sir Kay…on foote, he…rode to Pynnel…and smote horse and man downe, and than he toke hys horse and gaff hym unto sir Kay.\nc1475 Brm.Abraham (Brm)368 : Loo, fader, I haue browt here…Thys jentyll scheppe, and hym to ʒow I ʒyffe.\nc1475 Wisd.(Folg V.a.354)922 : Soule…Why yewyst þou myn enmy þat I haue wrought?\na1500(?a1400) Morte Arth.(2) (Hrl 2252)3554 : Yif me som of thy clothynge.\na1500 Rule Serve Ld.(Add 37969)13/24 : Þen þe amesse dyshe to be take away…and after yevyn to one persone.\nc1540(?a1400) Destr.Troy (Htrn 388)804 : Þan sho gafe hym a glasse with a good lycour.\n(a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)1 Kings 9.23 : Ʒif þou þe part þat I…comaundide þat þou schuldest leyn a-syde anentys þee.\nTo extend (one’s hand to sb.) in accord, in the dance, etc.; also, put out (one’s hands to be bound), stretch out.\n(a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)4 Kings 10.15 : He seiþ, ‘ʒif me þyn hond,’ þe whiche ʒaf to hym his hond, & he rerede hym to hym in to þe char.\na1425(c1385) Chaucer TC (Benson-Robinson)2.293 : Yif me youre hond.\n?a1425(c1380) Chaucer Bo.(Benson-Robinson)2.pr.6.73 : Regulus…most yyve hise handes to ben bownde with…cheynes.\na1450(?c1430) Lydg.DM(1) (Hnt EL 26.A.13)333 : To daunce ʒe mote ʒeue me ʒowre honde.\na1500(c1435) ?Lydg.DM(2) (Lnsd 699)47/497 : Yeve hidir thyn hand, thou Artificeer.\n(a) To dedicate (one’s child to God) by placing him in the service of a Jewish priest; also, offer up (one’s voluntary poverty, chastity, etc. to God) as a gift; eccl. offer (a religious service to Mary); (b) to devote (oneself, one’s heart, etc. to God, Christ, the Virgin Mary, a pagan deity, etc.); dedicate, give over entirely; also, put oneself at the disposal of (sb.); with inf.: devote oneself (to serve God, be Christ’s servant, etc.); (c) to sacrifice (sb. to an idol); offer (a sacrifice or an offering to God or an idol); also, present (an action) as an offering; present (sth.) as an offering (to sb. or God); (d) of a wife: to give (her virginity to her husband); also, in proverb, of a woman: ?give (her pudendum to a lover); ~ togeder, of a married couple: give (their bodies to each other) mutually.\na1425(a1382) WBible(1) (Corp-O 4)1 Kings 1.11 : I shal ʒyue hym to the Lord alle the days of his lijf.\nc1425 Found.St.Barth.40/28 : Chanons…of this chirche, thy bretheryn…sumtyme payid to me [Mary] solempne office of massys and deuoute seruyce of feithfull reuerence ʒeif to me.\nc1460 Tree & Fruits HG (McC 132)22/6 : Þat I haue, lord, I yif þe.\nc1475(c1445) Pecock Donet (Bod 916)41/11 : Wilful pouerte and chastite…ben ʒulde and ʒouen to god.\na1500 St.Kath.(4) (Cmb Ff.2.38)289 : My maydenhode…I haue geuyn…to god aboue.\na1225(c1200) Vices & V.(1) (Stw 34)37/20 : Ðu ʒifst…ðe seluen ðe dieule.\na1250 Cristes milde moder (Nero A.14)100 : Vor þine luue ich uorsoc al þet me leof was, And ʒef ðe [Mary] al mi suluen.\na1375(1335-1361) WPal.(KC 13)324 : Ʒif þou wolt ʒeve þe to gode, swiche grace may þe falle.\n(c1384) WBible(1) (Dc 369(2))2 Cor.8.5 : Thei ʒauen hem silf first to the Lord, aftirward to vs by the wille of God.\na1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)8144 : He gaf him al wit godd to dele.\na1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)10661 : To godd þan haue i giuen me.\na1400 Ancr.(Pep 2498)102/11 : It be þe better Man oiþer womman þat al her hert han ʒouen to god.\na1400 Ancr.(Pep 2498)153/1 : Alle myne wittes ich haue ʒouen to crist.\nc1400 Bk.Mother (LdMisc 210:Everett)4/1 : Ʒyue þiself holly, bodi and soule, parseuerauntly to Crist.\nc1450(c1440) Scrope Othea (StJ-C H.5)102/8 : If thou wilt yeve þe to Cupido…Thinke on Cresseidis newfangilnes.\na1450(?a1349) ?Rolle Luf es lyf (Cmb Dd.5.64)18 : All þi thoght til hym þou gyf.\na1450(1400) Eche man be war (Dgb 102)44 : Ʒyue hym thyn hert fro fleschly delys.\na1450(a1401) Chastising GC (Bod 505)160/4 : To hym I ʒeue me hooli.\nc1450(c1400) Vices & V.(2) (Hnt HM 147)59/19 : Þei…ʒyueþ hem to serue God al holly.\na1500(?c1450) Merlin (Cmb Ff.3.11)73 : Vlfin…yede and yaf hym-self to the Crepill.\na1500 Chartier Treat.Hope (Rwl A.338)126/3 : Thei…yaue themself most to God.\n?a1525(?a1475) Play Sacr.(Dub 652)981 : Yow haue gyuyn yow all Crystys seruauntys to be.\na1225(c1200) Vices & V.(1) (Stw 34)37/20 : Ðu ʒifst ðine eihte gode.\n(a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)5.1641 : Here offrende and sacrifise…Unto the mihti god above Thei scholden yive.\n(a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)5.1955 : Is openly ayein the feith Unto thidoles yove and granted.\na1425(c1384) WBible(1) (Corp-O 4)Ezek.16.21 : Thou offredist my sones, and ʒauest hem…to hem [idols].\n?a1425(c1380) Chaucer Bo.(Benson-Robinson)4.m.7.12 : The sory preest yeveth in sacrifyenge the wrecchide kuttynge of throte of the doughter.\n?a1475 Ludus C.(Vsp D.8)32/112 : What were god þe bettyr…to ʒevyn hym awey my best sheff?\nc1475 Wisd.(Folg V.a.354)82 : I aske not ellys of all þi substance; Thy clene hert, þi meke obeysance, Yeue me þat and I am contente.\na1500(a1460) Towneley Pl.(Hnt HM 1)16/251 : Thou wold I gaf hym this shefe, or this sheyfe.\na1325 Prov.Hend.(Cmb Gg 1.1)st.42 : Ʒeve þi cunte to cunnig, And crave affetir wedding.\n(c1395) Chaucer CT.Cl.(Manly-Rickert)E.837 : I yaf to yow my maydenhede And am youre trewe wyf.\nc1475(c1445) Pecock Donet (Bod 916)63/15 : Matrimonye is a couenaunt made bitwix man and womman wherynne þei ʒeven to gider, ech of hem to oþire, her bodies perpetualy…whilis þei lyuen, into bigetyng of children.\nIn phrases: (a) ~ to (til, unto), to devote (oneself, one’s body or heart) to (sth., an action, activity, occupation, a practice, way of life, etc.), pursue actively; also, refl. cultivate the company of (a certain kind of person) [quot. a1425(?a1400), 2nd]; with inf.: devote (one’s heart to doing sth.); refl. give oneself over (to doing sth.); (b) ~ to (til, unto), of a person, the heart: to be inclined to (sb. or sth.), be favorably disposed; also, incline (sb., one’s heart to sb.); ~ ayenes, be ill-disposed toward (an action); (c) ben) yeven to (with), to be) characterized by (a vice, an evil, etc.), be) dedicated to the pursuit of (violence), be) disposed or inclined to; also, with inf.: be disposed (to do sth.), have a propensity.\nShow 38 Quotations Hide 38 Quotations\n(1340) Ayenb.(Arun 57)7/25 : Me ssel…yeue him more to gostliche workes and to godes seruise.\n(1340) Ayenb.(Arun 57)45/8 : Hy yueþ ham to zenne.\n(c1390) Chaucer CT.Pars.(Manly-Rickert)I.146 : Ne a fouler thral may no man ne womman maken of his body than for to yeue his body to synne.\na1400(c1303) Mannyng HS (Hrl 1701)10967 : Who ʒyuen hem more to worldly þyng þan prestes do, for alle here prechyng?\na1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)2013 : Mast to tilth he [Noah] gaue him þan.\na1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)23071 : Þai…gaf þair hert…Þe nede for to cleth and fede.\nc1400(c1378) PPl.B (LdMisc 581)5.446 : I ran aboute in ʒouthe and ʒaf me nouʒte to lerne.\nc1400 PLove (Hrl 2254)176/4 : She [soul] dide wel…for to…holi ʒyuer [vr. ʒyuen] hir to þe loue of my Sone.\na1425(c1395) WBible(2) (Roy 1.C.8)4 Kings 17.17 : Thei ʒauen hem silf [L se tradiderunt] to do yuel bifor the Lord, and thei wraththiden hym.\na1425(?a1400) RRose (Htrn 409)5788 : With sorwe they bothe dye and lyue That vnto Richesse her hertis yiue.\na1425(?a1400) RRose (Htrn 409)7265 : To such folk shulde a prince hym yiue, That wolde his lyf in honour lyue.\n(a1438) MKempe A (Add 61823)127/24 : Þu ʒeuist þe to bying & sellyng, choppyng & chongyng, as it wer a man of þe werld.\nc1440 Tale Heracl.(Thrn)9/27 : Fra the begynnynge of the day, I gyfe me till praynge.\na1450(c1400) Wor.Serm.(Wor F.10)34/415 : Ʒif ʒe to abstinence, ʒif ʒe to clene rule oþ ʒuresilf.\nc1450 Scrope Othea (Lngl 253)2 : I…haue…consideryd the many and grete entreprises of labouris and aventuris that ye haue embaundoned and yovyn youre selph to by many yeeris contynued.\n(1471) Plea & Mem.R.Lond.Gildh.59 : Alexandre…yave hym not to Riot and vices.\n?a1475(a1396) *Hilton SP (Hrl 6579)1.11.7a : A soule wolde entierli ʒiefen him to gostli occupacion.\n?a1475(a1396) *Hilton SP (Hrl 6579)1.37.22b : Þei ʒief hem most to synne.\nc1475(a1400) Amadace (Tay 9)p.42 : A mon…geuees him to gode thewis, Authir to gentilmen or to schrewis.\nc1475(c1445) Pecock Donet (Bod 916)214/21 : I wolde þat þei ʒaue hem to oþire vertuose occupaciouns, as summe to studie…summe to craft, summe to marchaundising.\na1500(c1410) Dives & P.(Htrn 270)1.158 : Ʒif þei foundyn ony man or woman þat ʒeue hem to wychecraftis, [etc.].\n?a1400(a1338) Mannyng Chron.Pt.2 (Petyt 511)p.253 : Edward…His herte gaf tille dame Blanche.\n(a1470) Malory Wks.(Win-C)294/17 : Myne herte gyvyth me to the gretly, that thou arte com of men of worshyp.\n(a1470) Malory Wks.(Win-C)468/26 : Muche my harte yevith unto you.\n(a1470) Malory Wks.(Win-C)1164/24 : Never gaff my harte ayenste no goynge that ever ye wente to the quene so much as now.\na1475 Bk.Quint.(Sln 73)17/19 : Experience techiþ þat colerik men ʒeueþ to summe ymagynaciouns.\na1500(1422) Yonge SSecr.(Rwl B.490)241/14 : Whan a man syttyth atte mette…he sholde chese that wyche his harte yewyth beste to.\na1500 Octav.(1) (Cmb Ff.2.38)146/1151 : Of alle the men þat euyr y sye, Moost yeuyth my herte to yow trewly.\na1400 Cursor (Göt Theol 107)10004 : Scho was geuyn to serue god bidene.\na1425(a1382) WBible(1) (Corp-O 4)Gen.6.6 : Al thouʒt of the herte was ʒouun [WB(2): ententif; L intenta] to yuel.\nc1450(1410) Walton Boeth.(Lin-C 103)p.5 : So was he gifen to lustes and delice, In what desire þat come to hys þoght He wolde it done wiþouten more avise.\nc1450(?c1425) St.Mary Oign.(Dc 114)158/30 : A nobil knyghte…gyfen to þe worldes vanyte…was conuerted to oure lorde.\nc1470 Bible F.(Cleve-W q091.92-C468)47/14 : Who that is youen to suerd, he shal perissh with þe suerd.\na1475 Rev.St.Bridget (Gar 145)37/16 : Man…is yove to fredome.\nc1475(?c1400) Wycl.Apol.(Dub 245)33 : Þe bischop be howuiþ be…ne wraþful ne ʒeuin to drink.\nc1475 Wisd.(Folg V.a.354)941 : My wyll was full yowe to syne.\na1500(a1450) Ashmole SSecr.(Ashm 396)96/4 : Eyen torned vp-ward sheweth…a man yove [L deditum] to vices and venery.\na1500(a1450) Ashmole SSecr.(Ashm 396)96/18 : Litell eyen…yf þei declyne to þe left side, it sheweth hym to be yove with lust.\n(a) To direct (an emotion, a mental attitude, etc. toward sb. or God); give (credence to sb. or sth.); also, pay (attention); pay (attention to sth.); ~ ere(s, give ear, listen; ~ herte, fig. give (one’s) heart (to sb.), bestow (one’s) love (on sb.); also, pay attention (to sb.); (b) with inf.: ~ entente (tente), to take heed (to do sth); also, with clause: ~ kep, pay attention to (what occurred).\nShow 31 Quotations Hide 31 Quotations\nc1230(?a1200) Ancr.(Corp-C 402)202/5 : Þi luue…oðer hit is forte ʒeouen allunge oðer hit is to sullen.\nc1330(?a1300) Arth.& M.(Auch)1111 : Y telle þat man a conioun, Þat to þe ʒiueþ ani listening.\nc1350 MPPsalter (Add 17376)69.1 : Ʒeue kepe, God, to my helpe.\n(c1380) Chaucer CT.SN.(Manly-Rickert)G.415 : They…yauen ful credence Vn to hir word.\n(a1382) WBible(1) (Dc 369(1))Prov.23.26 : Ʒif, sone myn, thin herte to me.\n(a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)Wisd.6.3 : Ʒeueþ eres, ʒee þat holden togidere multitudes.\n(c1384) WBible(1) (Dc 369(2))1 Tim.1.4 : Thei schulden not…ʒyue tent to fablis.\n(c1395) Chaucer CT.Sq.(Manly-Rickert)F.541-2 : I hadde…yeuen hym my trewe herte as fre As he swoor he yaf his herte to me.\nc1400(?a1300) KAlex.(LdMisc 622)1915 : Who so wil now ʒiuen lyst, Here bigynneþ þe romaunce best.\n?a1425 *MS Htrn.95 (Htrn 95)144b/b : Þou schalt ʒiff tent to þe cure of þe wounde.\n?a1425 *MS Htrn.95 (Htrn 95)178a/a : A surgien þat…ʒiffeþ good hede to þe simpel medicines…maie wele vnderstonde…whiche…be febel.\n?a1425 Orch.Syon (Hrl 3432)416/30 : I schewide þe…þe reuerence which I reqwire of seculeris for to be ʒoue to hem in my name.\nc1425 Found.St.Barth.6/17 : Vncertayn he was to whom more credence shulde be gowyne.\n(1435) Misyn FL (Corp-O 236)96/3 : Þis lufe truly is…to criste with-outt partynge gywyn.\nc1450(c1440) Scrope Othea (StJ-C H.5)14/8 : Yeue…to thi souereyne reuerence…in herte.\na1450(a1338) Mannyng Chron.Pt.1 (Lamb 131)856 : To venerye he gaf his tent.\na1450 PNoster R.Hermit (Westm-S 3)25/8 : My sone, ʒyue me þin herte, þat is þe loue þat is in þin herte.\na1450 St.Etheldr.(Fst B.3)347 : All hurre lust to god he ʒeuede; He seruede hym euer with all hurre myʒt.\nc1450(c1386) Chaucer LGW Prol.(1) (Benson-Robinson)31 : On bokes for to rede I me delyte And to hem yive I feyth and ful credence.\nc1450 MS Frf.16 in Halliwell D.(Frf 16)947 : Han ye suche benevolence With every jantylman to…yiffe hem audience.\nc1450 Royal SSecr.(Roy 18.A.7)35/30 : It bihovith the to haue a secrete man to yefe attendaunce to thi privat writyngis.\n(1462) Plea & Mem.R.Lond.Gildh.25 : Gyffe credens to hym for he is my trusty frende.\n(a1470) Malory Wks.(Win-C)792/26 : We may gyff lovynge to God.\nc1475(?c1400) Wycl.Apol.(Dub 245)62 : Ʒeftis ʒere, ʒe þat haldun to gidre.\nc1475 *Mondeville (Wel 564)146b/b : Euery…crafti man þat wole worche by rule…muste ʒeue his entent to a certeyn entencioun ouþir to a certeyn ende And þanne he muste vse meenys þoruʒ þe whiche he mowe atteyne to þe same ende.\nc1475 *Mondeville (Wel 564)147b/a : We schal ʒeue more hede to the staunchinge of þe blood þan to þe helynge of þe wounde.\na1500 Parton.(1) (Add 35288)8639 : I may not…My love yove [vr. yeue] fro Partonope.\nc1540(?a1400) Destr.Troy (Htrn 388)11907 : To þe gawdes of the grekes gefe he no kepe.\na1400(c1303) Mannyng HS (Hrl 1701)431 : Iosep of dremys had ʒyue no kepe what hym was shewed yn hys slepe.\n?a1425 *MS Htrn.95 (Htrn 95)88a/a : A surgene must ʒyuen his entent forto refreine þe scharpenesse of þe bloode.\nc1450(c1350) Alex.& D.(Bod 264)305 : Oþir goodis to gete give we no tente.\n(a) To impart (knowledge, understanding, eloquence, enlightenment, etc.), convey (information, a piece of specific information), teach;—usu. with indirect obj.; ppl. yevinge as noun: one who bestows (wisdom on sb.); (b) to impart (an emotion, a state of mind, desire, etc.);—usu. with indirect obj.; implant (an impulse in someone’s heart); (c) to impart (moral or spiritual strength, might, virtue, etc. to sb. or sth.), give (sb. courage);—freq. with inf. phrase following; bestow (on sb. a spiritual gift), imbue (sb.) with (spiritual life), give (sb. immortality); also, convey (a supernatural power to sb.); (d) of one member of the Trinity: to inspire (sb.) with (the Holy Spirit, the spirit of prophecy), infuse (sb.) with the presence of (the Holy Spirit, etc.);—also without obj.; give (to sb. the emanation of God’s spirit); ~ of, give (sb.) of (the Holy Spirit), make (sb.) a partaker of; (e) of the soul: to imbue (the body) with (a quality, faculty, etc.); fig. and in fig. context: ~ lif, of a root: bring life (to a tree or its leaves); also, of self-love: give (life to the disobedient); ~ strengthe to, of charity: reinforce (virtues), strengthen; (f) physiol. of flesh: to lend (shape to bodily members); of nerves, sinews: ?transmit (motion, sensation), ?enable.\nShow 72 Quotations Hide 72 Quotations\nc1175 Orm.(Jun 1)ded.239 : He…sennðe…Haliʒ Gast…To gifenn hemm god witt inoh Off all hiss hallʒhe lare.\na1225(OE) Lamb.Hom.Pentec.(Lamb 487)97 : Summe Men he ʒif wisdom and speche.\nc1225(?c1200) St.Kath.(1) (Bod 34)34/237 : Ich chulle ʒeouen ow ba tunge ant tale.\nc1230(?a1200) Ancr.(Corp-C 402)49/13 : Godd wule, as he ʒef ham, ʒeouen ow liht wið innen him to seon & cnawen.\na1325(c1250) Gen.& Ex.(Corp-C 444)3667 : Ic sal hem geuen witter-hed.\na1325(c1280) SLeg.Pass.(Pep 2344)1064 : Ich haue yshewed to men of þe wordle þat þou ʒeue me.\n(a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)3 Kings 5.12 : Þe lord ʒaff wisdam to Salamon as he spac to hym.\n(a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)Ecclus.51.23 : To þe ʒyuynge [WB(2): hym that ʒyueth] to me wisdam…I shal preisen hym.\na1400 Ancr.(Pep 2498)59/35 : He haþ ʒouen vs knowlechyng of boþe.\n(1424) Let.War France in Bk.Lond.E.(Gldh LetBk I & K)87/14 : Lettres…yaven vs ful enformacion.\na1425(c1395) WBible(2) (Roy 1.C.8)Mat.11.27 : Alle thingis ben ʒouune to me of my fadir.\na1425 God þat art of mihtes (Add 37787)19 : In-sihte ʒif þu me al-so Þe to knowe in wele & wo.\n?c1430(c1400) Wycl.Antichr.(1) (Corp-C 296)261 : Eche man [may] feyne þat he haþ…goode vnderstondynge of holy writt ʒouyn of god.\n(c1443) Pecock Rule (Mrg M 519)213 : Þis heuenly goost came to þi disciplis…ʒeuyng to hem kunnyng of alle langagis and kunnyng of oure bileeue.\na1450(c1410) Lovel.Grail (Corp-C 80)21.160 : Thus ʒaf Sampson to his son lerneng.\nc1475 Wisd.(Folg V.a.354)479 : Þe fyue wyttys gyff informacyon.\na1500(c1477) Norton OAlch.(Add 10302)138 : As I hadde this arte bi grace fro hevyn, I geue you the same here in chapiters sevyn.\na1500 Chartier Treat.Hope (Rwl A.338)33/3 : I woll yeve the a clere vndirstondinge and assoile thy questions.\nc1175 Orm.(Jun 1)ded.241 : Þe Laferrd Crist…sennde siþþenn Haliʒ Gast Till hise Lerninngcnihhtess…To gifenn hemm god lusst.\na1225(c1200) Vices & V.(1) (Stw 34)145/30 : Þin wille was soðe berewsinge to ʒieuene on here hierte.\na1225(c1200) Vices & V.(1) (Stw 34)147/2 : Tu…are…hauest ʒefadd [read: ʒehafd] of hem ðe ðu…teares ʒeaue.\na1250 Cristes milde moder (Nero A.14)35 : Þu [Mary] ʒiuest eche reste.\na1325(c1250) Gen.& Ex.(Corp-C 444)11 : Ðan sal…almigtin…giuen him blisse and soules reste.\n(1340) Ayenb.(Arun 57)93/10 : Þine zuetnesse…þou…yefst to þine uryendes.\n(a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)1 Esd.7.27 : Þe lord god…ʒaf þis in þe herte of þe king.\na1450(a1396) Hilton CPerf.(Paris angl.41)4 : Þoru contynuaunce in praieris…þou myʒt…constreyne God to ʒeue þee feruour and heete of holy deuocioun.\na1450(a1401) Chastising GC (Bod 505)123/12 : He wil lacke al maner comfort þat god ʒaf hym bifore.\na1450(a1401) Chastising GC (Bod 505)178/19-20 : Þis inward charite and swetnesse of loue þe deuel may nat ʒiue.\na1450-a1500(1436) Libel EP (Warner)1133 : Charite He…That came for hevyne…Mote gefe us.\nc1460 Tree & Fruits HG (McC 132)68/3 : My pees endelesly I yif to yow.\n?a1475(a1396) *Hilton SP (Hrl 6579)1.9.6a : Þis partie of contemplacion god giues whar þat he wile.\n?a1475(a1396) *Hilton SP (Hrl 6579)1.33.20a : Be nouʒt…angri…þat he ʒiefiþ nouʒt þe þat sauour and gostli swetnes wiþ deuocion, as þe þinkyþ þat he ʒiefiþ to oþer creatures.\nc1475 Abbrev.Trip.SSecr.(UC 85)376/6 : Counforte thy peeple with faire wordes, and yive thaim hert and corage.\na1500(?c1450) Merlin (Cmb Ff.3.11)22 : God hath yove me mynde to knowe thynges that be to come.\na1500 Partenay (Trin-C R.3.17)7/196 : It may plese the kyng of glorie Which to me yeff Felyng ther-of fullie.\nc1175 Orm.(Jun 1)5480 : Her icc wile…Þa seoffne ʒifes shæwen Þatt Haliʒ Gast uss ʒifeþþ her.\nc1175 Orm.(Jun 1)8767 : Crist…shall hemm ʒifenn eche lif Att heore lifess ende.\na1225(?OE) Lamb.Hom.(Lamb 487)13 : Ah ic eou ʒife siʒe and streinþe þet ʒe maʒen ower feond ouer cumen.\na1250 Lofsong Louerde (Nero A.14)215 : Ʒif me wil and mihte…to leten euch uuel.\na1300 When y se blosmes (Roy 2.F.8)42 : Iesu…þv hyef me strenghte and myþt…to servi þe aryþt.\nc1350(a1333) Shoreham Poems (Add 17376)20/549 : He ʒaf ham power to don hyt.\n(c1390) Chaucer CT.ML.(Manly-Rickert)B.939 : Who yaf Iudith corage or hardynesse To sleen hym Olofernus?\na1425 Dial.Reason & A.(Cmb Ii.6.39)25/7 : Lo what fredam was ʒeuen to þe seruaunt of god to vnloke hid þouʒtes.\n?a1425 Orch.Syon (Hrl 3432)370/26 : In þat he took deeþ he ʒaf ʒou liif.\n(c1443) Pecock Rule (Mrg M 519)126 : Þis fynal perfeccioun…schal be ʒouun as a reward to hem oonly whiche schulen…deserve þat it be ʒouun to hem.\na1450 Ben.Rule(2) (Vsp A.25)190 : He gifes vs force, þat we not fall.\nc1450 Capgr.Rome (Bod 423)30 : Guynosopistis…prayed him to ʒyue hem immortalite.\nc1460 Tree & Fruits HG (McC 132)30/16 : He hathe yif me…lif in him.\na1475(?1445) ?Lydg.Cal.(Rwl B.408)115 : Ʒeueth me, Seynt Marke, some goostely sight Þat I may my-self þe bettur to se.\n?a1475(a1396) *Hilton SP (Hrl 6579)1.70.47b : He ʒaf him pouer to werken miracles.\nc1475 Wisd.(Folg V.a.354)56 : My loue…strengtheth þe mynde…And yewyt wysdom to hem þat perfyghte bene.\na1500(?c1378) Wycl.OPastor.(Ryl Eng 86)429 : Þe hooly gost ʒaf to apostlis wit at wit-sunday for to knowe al maner langagis.\na1500 In a Chirche (Adv 19.3.1)p.163 : Yf God haue gyfhen the vertus moo Then he as gyfhen other too or thre…Be ferde of pride.\n?a1525(?a1475) Play Sacr.(Dub 652)54 : Thus be maracle off þe Kyng of Hevyn, And by myght and power govyn to þe prestys mowthe, In an howshold were counteryd [read: conuertyd]…xj.\nc1175 Orm.(Jun 1)5512 : Godess Gast…gifeþþ hemm himm sellfenn her…onn eorþe.\n(c1384) WBible(1) (Roy 1.B.6)1 John 4.13 : Of his spirit he ʒaf to us.\na1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)18987 : O mi gast þai sal ha streme To suain and womman gife.\nc1400 Bk.Mother (LdMisc 210:Everett)1/7 : Today ʒif vs þiself þat art oneliche oure eche days brede.\nc1400 Bk.Mother (Bod 416)161/6 : In þis we knowen, for he dwelliþ in us, of Spirit þat he ʒaf to us.\n?a1425(a1415) Wycl.Lantern (Hrl 2324)17/15 : Dauiþ…hadde ʒouun to him þe ful spirit of prophecie.\na1425(a1382) WBible(1) (Corp-O 4)Num.11.25 : The Lord cam down…takynge of the spiryt that was in Moyses, and ʒyuynge to the seuenty men.\nc1475(?c1400) Wycl.Apol.(Dub 245)6 : He…dispiciþ not man, but God þat ʒaf his Holy Gost in vs.\n(1340) Ayenb.(Arun 57)81/13 : Al þe uayrhede þet þet body heþ þe zaule hit yeaf.\n?a1425 Orch.Syon (Hrl 3432)37/23 : He þat ʒeueþ liif to þe tre and to þe braunchis is þe rote.\n?a1425 Orch.Syon (Hrl 3432)395/8 : Holy hate wiþ his swerd of drede slouʒ wickid propre wille, which wil was & is norischid of propre loue þat ʒaf liif to alle þese enemyes of verry obediens.\nc1460 Tree & Fruits HG (McC 132)37/9 : Charite…enformyth and yivith strengthe to alle vertues.\na1475 Sidrak & B.(Lnsd 793)2640 : No might ne hath þe body Of him-self…To speke ne go, ne noght to do, But þat þe soule him ʒeueþ to.\n?a1425 Chauliac(3) (Htrn 95)12/11 : Þe sinewe is a simpel member fourmed…for to ʒeue felinge and meuynge to þe brawnes & to oþere partikels.\n?a1425 Chauliac(3) (Htrn 95)12/28 : Summe sinewes growen oute of þe forþer partie of þe braines & þo sinewes ben softe and redy for to ʒeue felinge.\n?a1425 Chauliac(3) (Htrn 95)22/14 : It [flesh] ʒeueþ feirer schap to alle þe parties of a mannes bodie.\nc1475(1392) *MS Wel.564 (Wel 564)13b/a : Alle þe cordis þat comen fro þe brayn & from þe nucha han boþe meuynge & felynge þe whiche þei ʒeueþ to alle þe membris of þe bodi.\nc1475(1392) *MS Wel.564 (Wel 564)15a/a : Brawn is a membre…smal in hise extremytees, greet in þe myddil & bowinge, ʒeuynge stiringe to summe official membris.\n(a) To transmit (sth.), send; (b) to impart (to wine a fragrance or pleasant taste).\n?a1425 Orch.Syon (Hrl 3432)202/17 : Þus euery teer comeþ out of þe herte, and þe herte ʒeueþ it to þe iʒe.\na1500 15c.Serm.Cycle(Hrl 2247:Powell)106/111 : A gode vessell…kepith good wyne and yevith [Cmb: ʒevythe] thereto redolent relese and swete savour.\n(a) To exude (pus, sap, etc.), put out, discharge; ~ oute; (b) to emit (light, a smell, fiery gleam, etc.); ~ oute; (c) to send forth (one’s spirit), i.e., die; ~ gost, ~ up gost (spirit).\nShow 34 Quotations Hide 34 Quotations\n?a1425 *MS Htrn.95 (Htrn 95)88b/a : Aloes, þe barke of fraunke encense…& galles brent so þat what tyme þei ʒif no more lee þei schal be sleckende.\n?a1425 *MS Htrn.95 (Htrn 95)147a/a : Ʒif þe bodie and þe member be naturellie moiste and ʒif but litil rotennesse oþer foule quiture, þen þe medicyne nedeþ to be but litil driynge.\n?a1425 *MS Htrn.95 (Htrn 95)174b/b : Ben vj maner of titimalles þat ʒiuen milke.\nc1425 Arderne Fistula (Sln 6)20/29 : A fistule is a depe aposteme …giffyng out quitour.\nc1475(1392) *MS Wel.564 (Wel 564)92a/a : Þou schalt ordeyne þe pacient to ligge in sich a maner þat þe mouþ of þe wounde be dounward and mooste pendaunt of ony partie of his body &…he be schoggid and y-rollid to ech side þat þe blood mowe renne out of þat wounde riʒt in þe same maner as þou woldist schoggen a barel þat he schulde ʒeue out his licour.\nc1475 *Mondeville (Wel 564)163b/b : Þe wounde schal be preperat twies on þe dai or oftere if it ʒeueþ quytture.\na1550(c1477) Norton OAlch.(Sln 1873)2996 : Servith such hete…to make oure litarge to geve swete.\na1200 Trin.Hom.(Trin-C B.14.52)119 : Ignis…triplicem uim habet…illuminandi, calefaciendi…Fir haueð on him þre mihtes, on to giuende hete, oðer to giuende liht, [etc.].\nc1225(?c1200) SWard (Bod 34)12/95 : Þet fur ne ʒeueð na liht.\nc1300(c1250) Floris (Cmb Gg.4.27)239 : In þe bureʒ ne darf me berne Lampe ne torche ne lanterne, Þat he ne ʒiueþ liʒt & leme, As doþ aday þe sunne beme.\nc1300 SLeg.Mich.(LdMisc 108)458 : Ʒwanne þe sonne schynez on cristal, oþur in watere cler, A gret leome it ʒif out a-ʒein.\na1325(c1250) Gen.& Ex.(Corp-C 444)2975 : Summe storuen and gouen stinc.\n(a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)SSol.2.13 : Þe vynes flouringe ʒyuen þer smel.\n(?1397) In a sesone (Gldh 25125/32)8 : Bryddys in buschys bysy ham with songys, Flourys for to florych and flauour ʒyf about.\na1425 Wycl.MCh.(Bod 788)405 : Aftir tribulacioun of þo daies, shal þe sunne be maad derk, and þe moone shal not ʒyve hir liʒt.\nc1430(c1380) Chaucer PF (Benson-Robinson)274 : The place yaf a thousand savours sote.\n?1435(1432) Lydg.Hen.VI Entry (Jul B.2)111 : Crovnettes off golde and stones clere…yaff such a liht That the byholders were stonyed.\na1450 Mandev.(3) (BodeMus 116)43/4 : The lampe wele yeuyn lytil light.\n(a1470) Malory Wks.(Win-C)19/21 : It gaf light lyke thirty torchys.\nc1470 Bible F.(Cleve-W q091.92-C468)46/27 : It wexid a gret tre and bare large levis crossid with rede and yaue good savoure, but it bare no frute.\na1500(?a1425) Lambeth SSecr.(Lamb 501)82/27 : Haue it ffurnays, gyffand [L reddentes] fflammes.\na1500 Bod.EMisc.Lapid.(BodEMisc e.558)32/267 : The rounde Berall yeveth fyre ayenste the sonne.\nc1175 Orm.(Jun 1)8111 : He ʒaff hiss fule gast To farenn inntill helle.\nc1300 SLeg.(LdMisc 108)456/257 : With þusse worde he ʒaf þene gost.\na1350 SLeg.Juliana (Ashm 43)148 : So ouercome heo was Þat heo al mest ʒef þen gost.\nc1390(?a1325) Adam & E.(2) (Vrn)226/22 : He lay stille & ʒaf vp þe gost.\na1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)25578 : Vte of þi bodi þou gaf þe gast.\nc1400 Bk.Mother (Bod 416)76/13 : Wiþ a gred cri he ʒaf up þe spirit.\na1425 Nicod.(1) (Hrl 4196)672 : Ihesus said: ‘in þi hend, My fader…My saule now sall I send’; with þis he gaf þe gaste.\nc1450(a1425) MOTest.(SeldSup 52)4110 : For feghyng was his flesch so drye, þat bown he was to gyfe þe gast.\n(a1470) Malory Wks.(Win-C)372/27 : The quene gaff up the goste and dyed.\na1500(?a1390) Mirk Fest.(GoughETop 4)9/11 : Yn þat lyght he af [vr. af vp] þe gost.\na1500 SLeg.Pass.(Vsp A.3)77 : To-geder fell his eghen, And boghed doun his heued; þe gast þen was geen.\nc1600(c1350) Alex.Maced.(Grv 60)243 : Hee gaf up his goste with God for too dwell.\nIn phrases: ben) yeven, of a legal document: to be) issued; also fig.\n(1405) Doc.in Flasdieck Origurk.42 : To þe othere partye of this endenture…the forsaid Baillies, Burgeys, and Comuners here comon seal han set to, ʒeuen day, ʒere, and place a forseid.\n(1421) Papers Trevelyan in Camd.67 ()77 : Yeven under our Signet of þe Egle, in absence of our oothir, at our town of Doovore, þe viii day of June.\n(1442) in Salzman Building in Engl.516 : In wittenesse wherof the said parties to these endentures entrechaungeably haue put their seelx; Yoven the day and the yere abouesaid.\na1450(a1400) SChart.Chr.(Add 37049)33 : Þis was gyfen [vrr. yolvyne (?yowyn), ʒowyn, gyuyne; graunted] at Caluery Þe fyrst day of þe gret mercy.\nc1450 ?C.d'Orl.Poems (Hrl 682)2/53 : Vndir oure seele…Oure feodaries or counselle We this haue doon not to repele In no manere, Gyve on the day of seynt Valentyne þe martere.\n(1459) Plea & Mem.R.Lond.Gildh.7 : Yeoven at London þe sext day of marche.\n(1459-60) Let.Bk.Lond.K (Gldh LetBk K)403 : Yoeven under oure signet…the second day of Feverie.\n(1472) Grant Arms in Antiq.49289 : In witnesse wherof I, the saide Kyng of Armes, to theise presents have sette my seale of Armes…Yevyn at London, the yere of the Reigne of Kyng Edward the fourth aftir the Conquest the xiith.\n(c1475) Doc.in Bk.Brome (Brm)134 : In…wytnes to thys presont chertar I haue put to my sele…Govyn at Walton on þe Wedenysday nex after þe feste of seynt Luke.\na1500 3rd Fran.Rule (Seton)55/15 : Gouen at Reate the xv Kalender of Septembre, þe secunde yere of oure pontificacion.\na1525(?1464) Cov.Leet Bk.327 : The…Recordour of this Cite suyd to the kynges hyghnes…to disclose his forseyd comaundement gyff at Couentre…And the kynges hyghnes remembred well the matier and asked Herry Ferres yf he had serched for the seid matier…and yf he had eny thyng founden þerin…Wherto the said Henre answered & seyd þat as yette no thyng was founden.\n(a) To generate (a product), produce (fruit, honey, meat, etc.); engender (flesh) [quot. ?c1375-a1390]; ~ milk, of a woman, female animal: produce milk, lactate; (b) to generate (revenue or income), produce; (c) fig. to produce (a kind of soul); also, give rise to (questions, power, fame, etc.); (d) to cast (a shadow);—used in fig. context.\nc1175 Orm.(Jun 1)12662 : Shepess lamb uss ʒifeþþ millc & flæsh & blod & wulle.\nc1300 SLeg.Kenelm (Hrl 2277)233 : Þer nas non of alle þe kyn þat half so moche mulc ʒeue.\n(?c1375-a1390) Chaucer CT.Mk.(Manly-Rickert)B.3641 : Oure flessh thow yaf vs; taak oure flessh vs fro And ete ynow.\n(c1384) WBible(1) (Dc 369(2))Mat.13.8 : Other seedis felden in to good lond, and ʒauen fruyt.\na1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)22326 : Þe erth sal giue o frut plente.\n?a1425 Chauliac(3) (Htrn 95)74/14 : A womman maie not wele ʒiff milke & haue her floures boþe at one tyme.\n(1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)132 : Drye, as kyne or bestys þat wylle gyfe no mylke: Exuberis.\nc1450(c1440) Scrope Othea (StJ-C H.5)41/2 : A cowe yeueth mylke, the which is swete and norisschynge.\nc1450(a1449) Lydg.SSecr.(Sln 2464)679 : A bee yevith hony and styngeth with the tayl.\nc1450 Mandev.(4) (CovCRO Acc.325/1)2015 : A brasile…yeueth his coloure.\na1225(c1200) Vices & V.(1) (Stw 34)77/29 : Riche menn…laneð here eihte uppe…þinges þe rentes ʒiueð.\n(c1384) WBible(1) (Dc 369(2))1 Tim.1.4 : Fablis and genologies…ʒyuen [L praestant] questiouns more than edificacioun of God.\n?a1425(c1380) Chaucer Bo.(Benson-Robinson)3.pr.2.63-6 : It semeth that strengthe and gretnesse of body yyven [F doingnent] power and worthynesse, and that beaute and swyftnesse yyven noblesse and glorie of renoun; and heele of body semeth yyven delyt.\na1500 Chartier Dial.F.&F.(Sion Arc.L.40.2/E.43)25/28 : Thys present age hath yeuen othyr maner of soules and desyreth othyr maner of doctryne.\n?c1450 Brut-1419 (Hrl 24)15 : After his tyme shall come a dragon…that shall yeue in Englande shadewe.\n(a) To utter (a word, cry, groan, etc.), speak; make (a sound), sound (a note or signal); ~ oute (up); ~ god dai, say ‘good day’ (to sb.), wish (sb.) a good day; ~ god word (godli langage), speak courteously, speak pleasantly; ~ langages, speak (a number of) languages; ~ to answeres, say (a word) in answer; (b) to sing (a song for sb.), chant, perform; also, ?intone (an antiphon); (c) to pronounce (a blessing, curse, condemnation, etc.), utter; announce (a verdict, sentence), proclaim [some quots. difficult to distinguish from sense 1c.(a)]; (d) to issue (a command, warning, etc.), make (exhortation), give (notice); disclose (a law), communicate (instructions, a rule, etc.), enjoin (a commandment);—freq. with indirect obj.; also, swear (an oath), make (a vow); with inf.: command (sb. to do sth.); ~ in charge (commaundement), command (sb. to do sth., that sb. should do sth., etc.); (e) to give (answer);—sometimes with indirect obj.; (f) to render (an account, a reckoning); ~ up; (g) to give (counsel, advice, etc.), tender;—sometimes with indirect obj.; with inf.: give (sb. counsel to do sth.); ~ to red, with inf.: urge as counsel (to do sth.); (h) to make (accusation, complaint, or mockery against sb.); give (glory, honor, praise, thanks to sb. or God); spread (rumor, slander about sb.); utter (reproof to sb.); (i) to give (a verbal report); bear (witness); ~ up, state (one’s) business; (j) to give (assent, accord, consent, etc.); (k) med. to prescribe (a remedy, course of treatment, etc.), recommend.\nShow 125 Quotations Hide 125 Quotations\na1200 Trin.Hom.(Trin-C B.14.52)81 : He hem gaf to andswere eifulle word.\nc1300 Body & S.(5) (LdMisc 108)p.37 : Ʒwo haþ lered þe al þis wite Þat givest me þese wordes grille?\na1375(1335-1361) WPal.(KC 13)1066 : Alle gaven god word to gomes.\n(a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)Ps.76.18 : A vois ʒeeuen þe cloudis.\n(c1384) WBible(1) (Dc 369(2))1 Cor.14.8 : If the trumpe ʒyue vncerteyn vois, who schal make him silf redy to bateil?\n(c1390) Chaucer CT.Mil.(Manly-Rickert)A.3773 : Of al his pley, no word agayn he yaf.\n(c1395) Chaucer CT.Mch.(Manly-Rickert)E.2364 : Vp he yaf a roryng and a cry.\na1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)3731 : Wit þis gaue [Trin-C: ʒaf] ysaac a grane.\na1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)4393 : Sco gaue a cri þat all moght here.\nc1400(?c1390) Gawain (Nero A.10)668 : Gawan…gef hem alle goud day.\na1425(c1395) WBible(2) (Roy 1.C.8)Mark 15.37 : Jhesus ʒaf out a greet cry and diede.\n(c1438) MKempe B (Add 61823)241/34 : Dyuers personys…spokyn fayr to hir & ʒouyn hir goodly langwage.\nc1440(a1400) Eglam.(Thrn)411 : Þe bare he herde gyff ʒellis.\na1450 Castle Love(1) (BodAdd B.107)1542 : Wot no mon but God allone What is the betokenyng Of the loude cry and ʒeiyng The[t] heo wolleþ wiþ loude steuyn Ʒeuyn and crye vp to heuyn.\na1400 Siege Jerus.(1) (LdMisc 656)527 : Tymbris & tabourris…Ʒeuen a schillande schout.\nc1450(?a1400) Wars Alex.(Ashm 44)5157 : Scho gaffe skirmand skrikis.\na1475 Bk.Courtesy (Sln 1986)191 : Gyf hym boner wordys on fayre manere.\na1500(c1410) Dives & P.(Htrn 270)1.51 : The ryche…ʒeuyʒt þe pore wol shrewydde woordys.\na1500(?c1450) Merlin (Cmb Ff.3.11)229 : Ther-with he yaf a sore sigh.\na1500(?a1475) Guy(4) (Cmb Ff.2.38)1271 : The ermyte he yaue gode day.\na1500 Chartier Treat.Hope (Rwl A.338)58/26 : Mydrydates…spake xxij langages and yave them to xxij nacions þat were vndir him.\na1500 Lamb.Mir.Virg.(Lamb 432)323/15 : The childe…gaff a laghter.\na1500 Let.Alex.(Wor F.172)164 : We…bad to yeve signe and token with a trump.\na1500 Siege Jerus.(2) (Brog 2.1)83/385 : Pylat ʒavfe hyme no word for sorro.\nc1475 Mankind (Folg V.a.354)332 : We wyll cum gyf yow a Crystemes songe.\na1500(a1460) Towneley Pl.(Hnt HM 1)122/183 : I wold, or we yode, oone gaf vs a song.\na1500 Rule Minoresses (Bod 585)104/39 : For to ʒeue þe antemes & for to tune þe psalmis þer schul be ii chaunteressis.\na1121 Peterb.Chron.(LdMisc 636)an.963 : Þa gife ic him Godes curs.\na1325(c1250) Gen.& Ex.(Corp-C 444)1508 : Ðe firme sune at offrende…sulde auen ðe bliscing…And…at gestning Ðe gungere sune geuen ðe bliscing.\na1325(c1250) Gen.& Ex.(Corp-C 444)1570 : Fader dere, bidde ic ðe Ðat sum bliscing gif ðu me.\nc1325(c1300) Glo.Chron.A (Clg A.11)6921 : Þe king þen dom uor to ʒiue an hey sat on is trone.\n(c1390) Chaucer CT.Ph.(Manly-Rickert)C.198 : This cursed iuge wolde…Ne here a word moore of Virginius, But yaf his iuggement and seyde thus, [etc.].\na1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)15228 : Vp he lift his hali hand, and gaf [Göt: geue] þe benisun.\nc1400 Bk.Mother (Bod 416)199/5 : His eiʒte curses…he ʒeueþ in þe same gospel to alle þat holden not his hestis.\na1425 Here begynnes a new (Roy 17.C.17)203 : Ihesu…to the Mownt of Olyvete Tham led & gaf Hys blyssyng.\na1450(a1401) Chastising GC (Bod 505)159/15 : He shal nat leue me but ʒif he ʒeue me his blessyng.\n(a1470) Malory Wks.(Win-C)12/5 : Uther Pendragon…said in herynge of them alle ‘I gyve hym Gods blissyng and myne.’\nc1475(?c1400) Wycl.Apol.(Dub 245)13 : A sentence of cursyng is seid to be ʒeuun justli, on two maners.\nc1475 Brm.Abraham (Brm)402 : My blyssyng I ʒeffe, wersoeuer ʒe goo.\na1500(a1460) Towneley Pl.(Hnt HM 1)19/355 : Here I gif the my malison.\na1500 Chartier Treat.Hope (Rwl A.338)48/23 : Thei wolde…fynde light causes for to yeue sentence and cursing ouir the people as for…light occasions.\na1225(?OE) Lamb.Hom.(Lamb 487)49 : He haueð geuen us to beon mud freo.\n(1340) Ayenb.(Arun 57)5/2 : Almiʒti god yaf ten hestes.\n(a1387) Trev.Higd.(StJ-C H.1)1.99 : God…ʒaf þe lawe to þe folk of Israel.\n(a1387) Trev.Higd.(StJ-C H.1)1.311 : Creta…was þe firste lond þat…ʒaf lawe i-write in lettres.\n(c1395) Chaucer CT.WB.(Manly-Rickert)D.74 : His maister yaf noon heeste.\na1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)10203 : To godd a-vou þai gaf.\n(1414) RParl.4.57b : Also that ʒe wole preiye the Kyng to ʒeve in charge to myne adversaries…to asken a copie of my Bille.\na1425 Dial.Reason & A.(Cmb Ii.6.39)19/16 : He…hath ʒeuen þis decre.\n?c1430(?1382) Wycl.Pet.Parl.(Corp-C 296)511 : He may not dispense wiþ Cristis reule ʒoven to apostlis.\n(1432) RParl.5.App.414 : Wee have gene yowe en charge and commaundment…to make hir plein restitucion of her Dower.\n(1436) RParl.4.501a : The Kyng will gif in commaundement to ye Kepers of his Greet and Privee Seales that they soeffre not suche clause of Vidimus be put in any Sauf Conduyt.\n(1448) Shillingford40 : Ye…evyng yn commaundement to the seid parties to go home, [etc.].\n(c1449) Pecock Repr.(Cmb Kk.4.26)1 : Seint Poul ʒeueth not to Thimothe instruccioun of eny hiʒer gouernaunce.\na1450 Mandev.(3) (BodeMus 116)75/25 : They han broke here lawe that Moyses yaf hem.\n(c1450) Capgr.St.Aug.(Add 36704)19/8 : The good fader Simpliciane gaf him exhortacion.\n(c1456) Let.Oxf.in OHS 35336 : Everyche of youre sayd oratours…shall ʒeve an othe.\n(1463-4) Doc.in Welch Hist.Pewterers Lond.31 : You shall…geve warninge to the master and wardens therof.\n(a1470) Malory Wks.(Win-C)326/29 : He gaff me suche charge at that tyme that I woll never discover hym untyll he requyre me.\n(a1470) Malory Wks.(Win-C)713/27 : I sholde gyeff thes marynars in commaundemente never to stynte tyll they cam unto Lonezep.\nc1475 Mankind (Folg V.a.354)293 : I gyue yow in charge, Be ware of New Gyse, Nowadays, and Nought.\na1500(?a1400) SLChrist (Hrl 2250)9887 : The lawe wos gefen…in fir to Moyses.\na1500 Rule Serve Ld.(Add 37969)16/39 : Þe marshall shall geve awarnyng to þe kerver and copberers.\nc1175 Orm.(Jun 1)12733 : Teʒʒ himm þa Þuss ʒæfenn sware onnʒæness.\nc1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)6778 : Þa ʒæf þe king answare.\nc1275(?c1250) Owl & N.(Clg A.9)55 : Þe niʒtingale ʒaf answare.\nc1300 Lay.Brut (Otho C.13)13154 : Answere neuere non ne ʒaf to þeos eorles.\na1325 SLeg.(Corp-C 145)213/70 : Þe marchans þoʒte scorn of him…And ʒifþ him hoker answere.\na1375(1335-1361) WPal.(KC 13)395 : He gaf hem answere agayn.\na1400 Cursor (Göt Theol 107)4459 : Þe botoler for bath gau ansuere.\na1500(c1410) Dives & P.(Htrn 270)1.337 : Þey…trauaylyn to sauyn ʒour soulys, as þei þat schul ʒeuyn answere for ʒour soulys at þe doom.\na1500(a1450) Gener.(2) (Trin-C O.5.2)365 : This Ientill man gave an answere.\n(1389) Lond.Gild Ret.in Bk.Lond.E.(PRO C 47/var.)50/84 : Þo four schulle trewely ʒiue vp her acompte vpon seint katerine day, byfore al þe breþeren.\na1425 Dial.Reason & A.(Cmb Ii.6.39)19/13 : At domes day schalt þou ʒeue a countes.\n?a1425 Orch.Syon (Hrl 3432)407/32 : A verri obediencer schal not ʒeue rikenyng of himsilf to me.\n?a1450 Sel.Rosarium Theol.(Cai 354/581)87/28 : Bot if prestez schewe…trewþ in þe puple, þai schal giffe reson in þe day of dome.\n?c1450(?a1400) Wycl.Clergy HP (Lamb 551)363 : Ʒoure souereyns…waken as for to ʒeue acowntis for ʒoure soulis.\n(1475-6) Doc.in Welch Hist.Pewterers Lond.49 : The…wardens vppon theyre othe…schall geue a trew a Count ons a yere.\na1500(c1410) Dives & P.(Htrn 270)1.64 : The more þat ʒe takyn…the hardere rekenyngge ʒe musten ʒeuyn.\na1225(c1200) Vices & V.(1) (Stw 34)77/7 : He ʒifð hem god ræd þurh ðe haliʒe writes.\na1325(c1250) Gen.& Ex.(Corp-C 444)4064 : Balaam…gaf ðis read of soules dead.\nc1350 Ayenb.App.(Arun 57)265/18 : Nou broþren and zostren y-hyreþ my red and yueþ youre.\na1375(1335-1361) WPal.(KC 13)1110 : Komande hem kendely here cunseile to ʒeue.\n(a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)1 Esd.5.3 : Who ʒaf to ʒou counseil þat þis hous ʒee shulden bilden vp?\n(c1390) Chaucer CT.Mel.(Manly-Rickert)B.2485 : Conseil…was yeuen to yow by the men of lawe.\n?a1400(a1338) Mannyng Chron.Pt.2 (Petyt 511)p.35 : His barons gaf him conseile for to take a wyfe.\na1425(a1400) Titus & V.(Pep 2014)433 : He ʒaue counselle aʒen þe pees.\na1450(?1348) Rolle FLiving (Cmb Dd.5.64)91/64 : He…gaf [vr. gayf] hir þis counsell.\n(c1450) Capgr.St.Aug.(Add 36704)13/13 : Certeyn frendis…ʒoue him councel.\n(a1470) Malory Wks.(Win-C)19/34 : They coude no counceil gyve.\nc1475 3 Consid.(UC 85)203 : His table yave him counseill.\na1500(1465) Leversedge Vision (Add 34193)127/585 : My curat…can ʒeve me sume conselle.\na1500 3rd Fran.Rule (Seton)54/9 : We geue councell that the forseide…techars be taken of the Frere menores.\nc1540(?a1400) Destr.Troy (Htrn 388)12002 : The grekys full glad gyffon to red Ilion to ouerturne.\n(a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)1 Kings 6.5 : Ʒee schul ʒeuen to þe god of israel glorie.\n(a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)7.1932 : Of this ansuere Alceste hath yive Unto Minerve gret thonkinge.\nc1400(?a1300) KAlex.(LdMisc 622)3969 : Þe kyng Gynneþ hym ʒiue swiche acusyng.\na1425(?a1400) RRose (Htrn 409)2036 : I bicome his man anoon, And gaue hym thankes many a oon.\na1425 Ben.Rule(1) (Lnsd 378)3/7 : Til god sal þe louing be, a[n]d grace til him giue, of whame we haue al þe gude.\n?a1425 Orch.Syon (Hrl 3432)48/12 : Þi creaturis…schulden ʒeue preisynges to þee.\n?a1425 Orch.Syon (Hrl 3432)217/16 : Þis deuoute soule…ʒaf þankynges to God.\nc1450(a1425) MOTest.(SeldSup 52)15071 : Þou gyfes to me agayn bot plenyng and reprofe.\n(c1450) Paston2.59 : Myn mayster ʒaf Frances a mocke and asked hym for [read: if] a man myth not betyn hes owyn wyfe.\n(1461) Paston2.242 : I recummaund me to ʒou, praying ʒow hertyli to labur for that the Kyng may wryte vnto me, gevyng me thankyng of þe good wyll and servyse that I haff doo vnto hym.\nc1470 Bible F.(Cleve-W q091.92-C468)74/28 : Alle that…peple yaue thanking to God.\nc1475 Chartier Quad.(1) (UC 85)177/7 : God knoweth…the rumore and slaunder opprob[r]iouse whiche…thou gaf to theim that reuled…the.\nc1475 Chartier Quad.(1) (UC 85)193/33 : So was Minicus constrayned to yeue laude and thanke [CQ(2): thankingis] to him whos worship he had slaundred and blasphemyd before.\na1500 Add.Hymnal (Add 34193)446/61 : Laud, honor & thankes reuerente…glorye Emperialle Be yeue to the fadyr omnipotente, And to þe sone in godhede peregale, And to the holy spyryte celestiall.\na1500 Add.Hymnal (Add 34193)453/82 : Too owr lord…Be yeuone lawd.\na1500 Lydg.LOL (Adv 19.3.1)p.127 : Glorye and preyse, laude and hye honowre, O blesfull quene, be gevon unto the.\n(c1384) WBible(1) (Roy 1.B.6)1 John 5.7 : Thre ben that ʒiuen witnessing in heuen.\nc1400 Bk.Mother (Bod 416)163/22 : Þre ben in heuene þat ʒeuen witnesse: þe Fadur, þe Sone, and þe Holi Gost.\na1425 LOL (Wnds E.I.I)94/11 : Þe postlis ʒauen witnessing of þe rising aʒen of Ihesu.\n(1435) RParl.4.493a : Thambassiatours…passed over into Flaundres to geve open relation yerof unto hem of ye saide parties of Pruce.\nc1440(?a1400) Morte Arth.(1) (Thrn)85 : To þe gome he gaffe vp his nedys.\nc1450 Lydg.SSecr.Ctn.(Sln 2464)2515 : They…to ypocras yove relacioun how they hadde attemptyd the science Off wyse philomon.\n?a1475 Ludus C.(Vsp D.8)282/325 : Serys, of o thyng…gyf me relacyon, if jhesus were out born in þe lond of galelye.\n(a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)1.1125 : The kyng…hath yoven his assent.\nc1400(?a1300) KAlex.(LdMisc 622)2035 : Archelaus þere-of ʒaf graunt, Ac he braak þat couenaunt.\nc1475(c1445) Pecock Donet (Bod 916)73/10 : If þe peple which schulde hem kepe ʒeue þerto her assent bi hem silf or bi her attorneys and procutouris, [etc.].\nc1475 Wisd.(Folg V.a.354)689 : Therto I geve acordance Off thow þat ben of myn affyance.\na1500(1465) Leversedge Vision (Add 34193)116/226 : As soon as my saule purposid to a spokyn and inclynyd to þer intent and to haf gon with þem, or hit myght speke and gyvve hys concent…my good angelle…toke my saule fro my body.\n?a1425 *MS Htrn.95 (Htrn 95)91a/b : Þis maner is…ʒeuen fullye of autours of medicine.\n?a1425 *MS Htrn.95 (Htrn 95)186b/b : Brune ʒiffes it and it is myne also: Take nutte cipresse, [etc.].\nc1475(1392) *MS Wel.564 (Wel 564)125b/a : Þis general lore…is ʒeue in cure of woundis of þe heed whanne þe wounde is oonly in þe skyn of þe heed…and y wondir if in al þe world be a bettere loore.\n(a) To perform (an act, operation, a ritual); make (confession); eccl. perform (a sacramental rite), administer; ~ ende, make (one’s) end, die; ~ a hete (boile), heat (sth.); (b) to do (battle), make (an assault), carry on, wage; do (battle against sb.), make (an assault against sb. or sth.); (c) ~ blessinge with the lift honde, to make the sign of the cross with the left hand as a curse; (d) to administer (punishment or chastising to sb.); (e) ~ a yeve (yifte), to make (sb.) a promise, give a pledge (to sb.); also, promise (that sb. will do sth.), promise (sb. that sb. will do sth.).\nc1175 Orm.(Jun 1)3219 : Þiss lif…he…aʒʒ het held full wel anan Till þatt he ʒaff hiss ende.\n(a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)1 Esd.10.11 : Now ʒyueþ confessioun to þe lord god.\n(1395) Wycl.37 Concl.(Tit D.1)129 : Cyprian…erred in the matter of bapteme gouen of heretikes.\n?c1425 Arun.Cook.Recipes (Arun 334)457 : Gif hit then a boyle after.\n(?1440) Palladius (DukeH d.2)4.140 : Ek weede hem ofte…Vntil the plaunte vp gete…And yeue hem in the hete a watteringe.\na1450 Hrl.Cook.Bk.(1) (Hrl 279)22 : Sette it on þe fyre an ʒif it an hete & þanne…take whyte Sugre…& caste þer-to…& caste þer-to Clowys…& sette it on þe fyre & ʒif it a boyle.\n?a1450 MLChrist (Add 39996)310 : Sche bade hem…To ʒeue þe child circumcise.\nc1475(?c1400) Wycl.Apol.(Dub 245)59 : It is to not, þat þe sacrament of presthed befor oþer…is to be ʒeuen and tane…Oþer sacramentis are ʒeuen to ilk man for himsilf.\nc1330 SMChron.(Auch)768 : He wald ʒif on him batayle.\na1375(1335-1361) WPal.(KC 13)2857 : Harde sautes to þe cite were ʒeven.\n(a1387) Trev.Higd.(StJ-C H.1)4.213 : Some of Rome fiʒteþ and ʒeveþ batayle aʒenst oþere of Rome.\na1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)7792 : Dauid had gin him [Amalech] batail kene.\nc1400(?a1300) KAlex.(LdMisc 622)5833 : Þat folk grete assauʒt hym ʒaue Wiþ swerdes, axes, stones, and staue.\nc1400(?a1300) KAlex.(LdMisc 622)6212 : Þe kyng ʒaf bataille Vpon Taurunte.\na1425 Arth.& M.(LinI 150)112 : Þey prikyden forþ…To ʒeue þe Denys kyng batayle.\na1450(a1338) Mannyng Chron.Pt.1 (Lamb 131)2657 : He…til his broþer gaf bataille.\nc1453(c1437) Brut-1436 (Hrl 53)577/33 : The Flemmynges…gave þe Englisshe men with-in many stronge assawtes.\na1475 Siege Troy(1) (Hrl 525)187/1065h : The shyppis all Yoven asaught on to þe wall.\n(a1475) Fortescue Gov.E.(LdMisc 593)129 : He hath gyven bataill to the same kyng, and putt hym to flight.\na1500(?a1400) Morte Arth.(2) (Hrl 2252)2728 : Arthur, than, the comely kynge, with hys folkis ther was lente To yeff Assaute.\na1500(a1450) Gener.(2) (Trin-C O.5.2)2012 : The lande of perse hath gevyn batell.\na1500(?a1450) GRom.(Hrl 7333)285 : She…ʒafe þe stiwarde hire blessing with þe lefte hond.\n(c1390) Chaucer CT.Pars.(Manly-Rickert)I.221 : The brennynge of the fyr of this world shal god yeuen in helle to hem that ben dampned.\nc1450(c1440) Scrope Othea (StJ-C H.5)14/14 : To thi suget, thou scholdest yif…chastisyng.\nc1475 Chartier Quad.(1) (UC 85)135/26 : Mercy medled with rightwysnesse…yiveth vpon the nobles…discreete and temperate punicion.\n(c1300) Havelok (LdMisc 108)2880 : Ich giue þe a giue Þat euere…shal-tu be with me dere.\nc1330(?a1300) Tristrem (Auch)2921 : A ʒift y ʒeue þe.\nc1440(?a1400) Perceval (Thrn)85 : Gyffes he a gyfte…Þat he scholde qwyte hym þat dynt.\na1450(a1338) Mannyng Chron.Pt.1 (Lamb 131)13481 : Ys Rome…Halden hed of al þe werd, & so schal be, y gyue ʒow a gyue.\na1500 Partenay (Trin-C R.3.17)5557 : Be it witte or foly, you will haue to loue, sin yifte me haue yif on; I will noght desire non other guerdon.\n(a) To deliver (a blow), give (sb. a buffet, knock, etc.); also fig.; ~ breid, give a pull or jerk; also, with refl. pron. as indirect obj., of hell: wrench itself, convulse; ~ a fal, give (sb.) a fall in a joust, unhorse (sb.); also, knock (sb.) down; ~ tripet, trip (sb.) up; (b) ~ acole (colee), to tap (sb.) on the shoulder with the flat of a sword blade as part of the ritual of dubbing to knighthood; (c) to strike (sb.), hit, smite; also, kick (sb.); (d) to inflict (a wound);—usu. with indirect obj.; also fig.; ~ dedis (dedli, dethes, mortal, etc.) wound.\nShow 44 Quotations Hide 44 Quotations\nc1225(?c1200) HMaid.(Bod 34)16/225 : Þenne smit leccherie o þe mihte of meiðhad…þet dreori dede on ende ʒeueð þet deaðes dunt.\nc1225(?c1200) St.Marg.(1) (Bod 34)52/1 : He þe þene dunt ʒef.\na1250 Ancr.(Nero A.14)26/27 : Sweord smit of neih & ʒifð [Pep: smyteþ] deaþes dunt.\nc1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)10602 : Heo bittere swipen ʒefuen mid axes & mid sweordes.\na1325(c1280) SLeg.Pass.(Pep 2344)1229 : Harde boffetes hi him ʒeue.\na1375(1335-1361) WPal.(KC 13)1158 : Mani strok in litel stounde sternely was þer ʒeven.\nc1390 Treat.Mass (Vrn)347 : Wiþ his hed he ʒaf a dasch Aʒeyn þe Marbel-ston.\n(c1390) Chaucer CT.NP.(Manly-Rickert)B.4504 : A preestes sone yaf hym a knok.\na1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)7169 : Sampson…gaue a braid…fers and fast.\na1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)18083 : Wit þis gaf hell it-self a braid And kest vte sathan.\na1400 Cursor (Frf 14)15837 : Mony a falle þai him [Jesus] gaf.\nc1400(?c1380) Pearl (Nero A.10)174 : Baysment gef myn hert a brunt.\na1425(?c1350) Ywain (Glb E.9)3540 : Ful stalworth strakes war þare gifen.\na1425(a1400) PConsc.(Glb E.9 & Hrl 4196)7017 : Devels…with hamers gyf swa gret dyntes Þat alle to powdre moght stryke hard flyntes.\nc1425(c1400) Ld.Troy (LdMisc 595)17095 : Sche smot him…And ʒaff him on vn-to his mede, That hir spere In-sunder ʒede.\nc1440(a1400) Eglam.(Thrn)1262 : Sir Eglamour tuk his swerd platte And gyffes his son swylke a swappe Þat to þe grownde gan he gane.\n(1449) Metham AC (Gar 141)916 : He redy schuld be For hys lady sake to iuste…and qwat he were myght yeue hym a falle Schuld ryghtly hys coursere and trappere possede.\nc1450 Capgr.Rome (Bod 423)5 : Þei…put hem in prees þere buffetis schuld be ʒoue.\n(a1470) Malory Wks.(Win-C)30/10 : He gaff hym suche a falle that the horse felle downe to the erthe.\nc1470 Bible F.(Cleve-W q091.92-C468)55/33 : Thei yaf him gret buffetis and strokis, and than thei seid to him, ‘Telle who smote thee.’\n?a1475 Ludus C.(Vsp D.8)174/188 : I ʒeve hym such a trepett, he xal evyr more ly stylle.\na1500(?a1400) Morte Arth.(2) (Hrl 2252)269 : A dynte he yaff with mekill mayne.\na1500(?c1425) Spec.Sacer.(Add 36791)253/2 : He…ʒaf hym a grete stroke in the face with his fiste.\na1500(?a1450) GRom.(Add 9066)416 : The chambreleyn is the deuyll…but gyfe hym iij buffettes, that is, mekenesse, charite, and mercy.\na1500 Chartier Treat.Hope (Rwl A.338)54/11 : So thanne thou, mortall man, wylt gouerne Goddis people ayeinst His will…Wherfor He woll yeue the a fall.\nc1540(?a1400) Destr.Troy (Htrn 388)6436 : Mony strokes, in þat stoure, þo stithe men hym gefe.\nc1400(?a1300) KAlex.(LdMisc 622)813 : Kyng Philippe þat was his lorde…ʒaf hym þe colee ariʒth.\na1500(?c1450) Merlin (Cmb Ff.3.11)520 : He wolde neuer be knyght before that the beste knyght of the worlde…hadde yove hem…the a-coole.\na1500(?c1450) Merlin (Cmb Ff.3.11)637 : The kynge yaf him the a-colee and seide, ‘God make hym a good knyght.’\na1425(a1400) Titus & V.(Pep 2014)168 : Anoþer toke a fullyng-staffe And on þe heed þerwiþ him ʒaue.\nc1450 Alph.Tales (Add 25719)298/6 : Þis Emperour…gaff hur on þe cheke with hys nefe.\nc1450 Pilgr.LM (Cmb Ff.5.30)132 : Anoon with his yrened foot he schulde yiue me in the visage.\nc1175 Orm.(Jun 1)4276 : He comm her to læchenn uss Off all þatt dæþess wunde Þatt Adam haffde ʒifenn uss.\nc1325(c1300) Glo.Chron.A (Clg A.11)1144 : Ech man þat he þer wiþ smot he ʒef deþes wounde.\nc1330(?a1300) Arth.& M.(Auch)7870 : Þis…xvi þousinde…smiten on our ʒong man…And ʒauen hem bitter and hard wounde.\nc1330(?a1300) Arth.& M.(Auch)8158 : Dedliche wounde he ʒaf him hard.\nc1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)1.4211 : Castor…Hath with a spere amyddes of þe breste Segnerides ʒoue a mortal wounde.\nc1440(a1400) Eglam.(Thrn)407 : Þe bare he gaffe his dedis wounde.\nc1460(a1449) Lydg.2 Merch.(Hrl 2255)770 : With myn hand I gaff his dedly wounde.\na1450(1408) Vegetius(1) (Dc 291)60/23 : Ʒif þou rennist aʒenst þin enemy wiþ scharp point, and þou happe to perce two ynche, hit is liʒtliche to ʒiue him deþes wounde.\na1475 Siege Troy(1) (Hrl 525)168/162j : Swerdis þey drowyn…And ether gave oder grysly wonde.\na1500(?a1475) Guy(4) (Cmb Ff.2.38)201 : Loue hath geuyn hym soche a wounde.\n?a1525(?a1475) Play Sacr.(Dub 652)39 : They…with daggers gouen hym many a greuyos wound.\nc1540(?a1400) Destr.Troy (Htrn 388)1250 : Þe kyng…Gaffe hym a great wounde in his grete face.\n(a) To show (signs, portents, etc.), demonstrate, exhibit; show (sb. a sign); also, with clause: show (that sth. is the case); also, refl. show oneself (as sth.); (b) to present (a doctrine, an opinion) for consideration; set forth (a rule), express; offer (a choice); ~ in (up); ppl. yeven as adj.: stated; (c) of an instrument: to indicate (sth.), register; (d) to feel (an emotion);—in phrases with refl. pron. as indirect obj.: ~ gret wonder, wonder greatly, feel great curiosity; ~ ille, trouble oneself, be disturbed; ~ sorwe, feel sorrow, be sorrowful; (e) ~ (the) bak, to show one’s back, show (sb.) one’s back, turn and run; also, put (sb.) to flight [1st quot.].\nc1175 Orm.(Jun 1)11090 : Þatt newe sterrne…he ʒaff Þa Kalldewisshe kingess Forr þatt itt shollde ledenn hemm Till himm þe rihhte weʒʒe.\n(a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)Tob.10.13 : Þe fadir & moder…laften hir to gon, monestinge hir…to ʒyuyn [WB(2): schewe; L exhibere] hirselue vnreprouable.\n(c1384) WBible(1) (Dc 369(2))Mark 13.22 : Fals prophetis schulen ryse vp and schulen ʒyue tokenes and grete wondris to disceyue…the chosene.\n(c1384) WBible(1) (Dc 369(2))2 Cor.6.4 : In alle thingis ʒyue we [L exhibeamus] vs silf as mynistris of God, in moche pacience.\n(a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)prol.332 : At Avynoun thexperience Therof hath yove an evidence.\na1425(c1385) Chaucer TC (Benson-Robinson)4.710 : Hir teeris…yaven signes of the bittre peyne In which hir spirit was.\na1425 Here begynnes a new (Roy 17.C.17)283 : I sall on herthe gyfe tokennys.\n(c1449) Pecock Repr.(Cmb Kk.4.26)306 : Experience hath ʒouun bifore…that grete lordis and ladies…couthe not rekene a summe into an hundrid schilingis.\n(c1449) Pecock Repr.(Cmb Kk.4.26)542 : Peple han be and ben and schulen be so freel as experience ʒeueth that thei ben.\nc1450 Lydg.Hen.VI Entry (Cleo C.4)p.5 : A sturdy champion…His swerd upreryd, proudly gave manace.\nc1475 Chartier Quad.(1) (UC 85)141/22 : I see vppon us light the strokes that ben digne of deth, yiving tokenyng of divine indignacion.\n(a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)2 Kings 24.12 : Of þre thingis to þee ys ʒofen choise.\n(a1398) Trev.Barth.(Add 27944:Seymour)93/18 : Olde philosofres ʒaf diuers and…contrarie domes.\n(1414) RParl.4.22b : Youre…lieges…bysechyn…that ther never be no Lawe…that sholde chaunge the…Petitions biforesaid yeven up yn writyng.\n?a1425 *MS Htrn.95 (Htrn 95)159b/a : Þere ben þre general reules ʒeuen in þis mater howe þat a man schal make compounde medicines of þes simpel medicines.\n(1425) RParl.4.268b : Ye Counseill…come into yis high Court, yeving in a Peedegree in writyng, provyng my said Lord Erle Marschall commyng lynealy of Blod Riall.\n(1425) RParl.4.276a : Pourveid…that if any Wolle…shipped…fortune to be perisshed…That the said Merchant or Merchantz that have lost…the said Wolle…aftre the fourme…of a Bill, assented be the forsaid Commens, gevyn uppe to the Kyng…mowe be discharged.\n(c1449) Pecock Repr.(Cmb Kk.4.26)459 : The Apostlis ʒauun sum…ground wherbi tho makers myʒten weel knowe and knewen that forto so…ordeyne it accordid…with the Apostlis…wil.\nc1450 Art Number.(Ashm 396)45/33 : Of progressioun naturell 2 rules ther be yove.\n(c1454) Pecock Fol.(Roy 17.D.9)69/26 : If þe ʒouun discripcioun of feiþ be trew…feiþ muste be gendrid into vs.\na1400 LShip Venice (Trin-C O.5.26)406 : The extremitees of this figure ʒeueþ [Price reads: ʒeneth; L dant] solsticia; the myddel, sothly, equinoccia.\n(c1300) Havelok (LdMisc 108)164 : He greten, and gouleden, and gouen hem ille.\na1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)3037 : Giue þe not ill.\na1425(?a1350) 7 Sages(2) (Glb E.9)3884 : Childe, gif þe noght ill; Ihesu wil þe help in haste.\nc1440(a1350) Isumb.(Thrn)111 : They wepede alle and gafe thame ille.\n(a1470) Malory Wks.(Win-C)207/6 : Now geff the sorow, sir Emperour.\na1500(?a1400) Torrent (Chet 8009)1570 : Yeve the no thing yll, To ffyght with my lordys enemy.\na1500(?a1400) Torrent (Chet 8009)1740 : Yf the no-thing evyll.\nc1500 Melusine (Roy 18.B.2)223/27 : I gyue me grete wonder what folke they may be.\n(a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)2 Kings 22.41 : Myn enemys þow ʒeeue to me þe bac…& I schal scateren hem.\na1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)2499 : Þe fiue gaue bak to wine a-way.\na1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)4390 : He drou, sco held, þe tassel brak, Þe mantel left, he gafe þe bak [Göt: gaf bac].\nc1475(?c1425) Avow.Arth.(Tay 9)1115 : Þere mete…gerut hom to giffe vs þe bake.\nc1540(?a1400) Destr.Troy (Htrn 388)6860 : The grekes gaf bake & þaire ground leuyt.\n(a) To appoint (sb. leader, an officer, or a companion for sb.), choose; appoint (sb. as knight); (b) to ordain (sth.), require, make mandatory;—also without obj. in as clause [last quot.]; with inf. or clause: ordain (sth. for the purpose of doing sth.); require (sth. to be done); also, ordain (that sb. do sth.); (c) to assign (an office, a task, penance, etc.);—freq. with indirect obj.; also, set (a punishment); with inf.: direct (sb. to do sth.); also, in impers. construction: him was yeven, it was appointed for him (to do sth.); (d) in phrase: ~ to, to assign (a numerical value) to (each letter of an alphabet); also, associate (a metal, certain plant life, truth) with (a particular planet or heavenly body), regard as in the domain or under the influence of; (e) in expressions of naming: ~ name, to assign a name (to sb. or sth.); give (a poem) a title; ~ to name, give (sb. or sth. a specified name) as a name; ~ word, give (a specified honorific) title (to sb.); (f) to fix on (a day for action), appoint; also, fix (the duration for rumors);—usu. with indirect obj.; (g) to attribute (sth. to sb., God, or the devil), ascribe.\nShow 59 Quotations Hide 59 Quotations\nc1300 Horn (LdMisc 108)72/1310 : Þo me to knyʒte þou ʒoue; My knyʒt hede ich haue proued.\n(a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)Judg.14.11 : Þei ʒefyn to hym boordfelawis þretty þe whiche schuldyn ben wiþ hym.\na1425(a1382) WBible(1) (Corp-O 4)3 Kings 14.7 : I haue enhaunsid thee fro the myddis of the puple, and ʒaf thee duyk vpon [WB(2): on] my puple Irael.\nc1450 Royal SSecr.(Roy 18.A.7)36/34 : Yofe hem such officers that entende not to ther distruccioun.\nc1300 SLeg.Pilate (Hrl 2277)197 : Þenqueste vpe him seide þat he destruyde oure lawe, And lawe ʒifþ þat alle suche me scholde bringe of dawe.\n(a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)3 Esd.1.32 : Þis is ʒyuen to be don euermor in to al þe kynrede of israel.\n?a1425 Orch.Syon (Hrl 3432)228/28 : What þat euere I suffre or ʒeue, I do it…þat ʒe schulden…sett ʒoure entent to þat eende þat it is maad to.\na1450 PNoster R.Hermit (Westm-S 3)19/19,26 : Cloþing was first ʒeuen to man his synful membris to cloþe & to hide…God haþ ʒyuen cloþing to man…his schameful lymes to hil & to hide.\na1500 Partenay (Trin-C R.3.17)462 : I do beleue Ryght As holy Catholike feith doth yeue.\na1150(c1125) Vsp.D.Hom.Elucid.(Vsp D.14)141/26 : Þa geaf God him ane wica.\nc1175 Orm.(Jun 1)2111 : Himm wass ʒifenn forr to ben Wiþþ Sannte Marʒe inn huse.\n(c1387-95) Chaucer CT.Prol.(Manly-Rickert)A.223 : He was an esy man to yeue penaunce.\n(a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)1.1972 : Yif me my penance er I die.\na1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)14454 : He þam gaf na noþer task.\na1400 CMSoul (Bod 923)263 : That penance which is cleped solempne is penaunce that is youen or enioigned on Asch Wodenesday be the bischop in cathedral churches with grete solempnite, for open cryme, or horrible synne knowen to all a cite or a cuntre.\n?a1425 Orch.Syon (Hrl 3432)340/16 : I ʒeue a man no moore for to bere þan he may bere.\na1450(a1401) Chastising GC (Bod 505)226/12 : I haue made an ende of þat werk þat þou ʒauest me to doo.\na1450(a1425) Mirk IPP (Cld A.2)683 : Ofte þou moste penaunce ʒen Boþe to men and to wymmen.\na1450(a1425) Mirk IPP (Cld A.2)1879 : Oþer penaunce þow schalt not gyn.\n(1480) Plea & Mem.R.Lond.Gildh.139 : I yeve and bequethe to myn executoures…to syng and pray…for my sowle.\na1475 Sidrak & B.(Lnsd 793)2061 : To echone God ʒaf iwis Ordre of office in his blis.\nc1613(1469) Plumpton Let.22 : The punishment will be grevieous to them, for it is gyffin by a statute.\nc1400 Wycl.LAChurch (Dub 244)p.xxvi : Byngynnnge fro þe first of ebrew lettris & ʒeuynge to euery lettre an hundrid ʒeer, þe oolde Testament was endid whanne þe noumbre ʒeuen to þe lettris was fulfillid.\nc1450(c1440) Scrope Othea (StJ-C H.5)16/26,30 : The philosophres yaf and compared the vertues of the vij metallis to the vij planetis…To Jouis is yoven copir or bras.\nc1450(c1440) Scrope Othea (StJ-C H.5)17/29 : Venus is a planete of hevin, after whom Friday is named; and the metal that we calle tyn or peuter is yoven to the same.\nc1450(c1440) Scrope Othea (StJ-C H.5)18/27 : Satirday is named aftir Saturne, and the metalle that we calle leede is yoven therto.\nc1450(c1440) Scrope Othea (StJ-C H.5)20/2 : The sonne be his clernes schewith thinges that be hidde; and therfore trouthe, the which is clere and schewith secrete thinges, may be youen [vr. yofe] to him.\nc1450(c1440) Scrope Othea (StJ-C H.5)20/25 : Phebe is callid the mone, of whome the Monday hath his name; and to him is youen the metall that we call siluere.\nc1484(a1475) Caritate SSecr.(Tak 38)176/34 : Euiry thyng wantyng lyght of þe nombyr of vegetabyllis is attribute to Saturne…And qwat þing of vegetablys is floryschyng and luminus is youyn to…and gouernyd be Mercury.\na1500(a1450) Ashmole SSecr.(Ashm 396)67/27 : All thyng vegetable that floureth and bereth no frute is yove to Mars.\na1121 Peterb.Chron.(LdMisc 636)an.654 : Hi wolden an mynstre areren…And hi swa diden & nama hit gauen ‘Medeshamstede’.\na1121 Peterb.Chron.(LdMisc 636)an.963 : Kenulf…macode fyrst þa wealle abutan þone mynstre; geaf hit þa to nama ‘Burch’ þe ær het ‘Medeshamstede’.\nc1275(?a1200) Lay.Brut (Clg A.9)13048 : He ʒæf nome þan hulle ær he þonne wende and hehte hine Æleine Tunbel.\na1325(c1250) Gen.& Ex.(Corp-C 444)238 : Adam gaf hire name ‘eua’.\na1325(c1250) Gen.& Ex.(Corp-C 444)301 : Euerilc ðhing haued he geue name.\nc1330 Le Freine (Auch)18 : Þai…maked a lay and ʒaf it name.\nc1390 Castle Love(1) (Vrn)616 : Wondurful…redeful…fader…Prince of pees…Þeos beþ þe nomen…Þat þe prophetes him ʒeeuen.\na1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)4986 : Þijs oþer ten, Þat þai giue to nam ‘ruben’, Duel in ostage her wit me.\na1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)25431 : Man þou scop and gaf him nam.\nc1450(c1440) Scrope Othea (StJ-C H.5)7/13 : To the firste we haue youen a name.\na1450(a1425) Mirk IPP (Cld A.2)138 : Then may the fader …Crysten the chylde and ʒeue hyt name.\nc1450(?a1400) Wars Alex.(Ashm 44)1070 : ‘Sagittarius’ forsoth men gafe it to name.\nc1450 Capgr.Rome (Bod 423)4 : Writith solinus…a fled woman fro troye whos name was ‘romen’…ʒaue þe name to þe cyte…longe or remus and romulus wer bore.\n(c1450) Capgr.St.Aug.(Add 36704)2/4 : Þis word ‘Augustus’ was first ʒoue on-to þe emperour Octauiane.\nc1450(a1400) Libeaus (Clg A.2)61 : Now wyll Y ʒeue [Lamb: if] hym a name.\na1475 Sidrak & B.(Lnsd 793)2254 : Adam ʒaf name to alle þing.\nc1450(c1380) Chaucer HF (Benson-Robinson)2114 : Thus out at holes gunne wringe Every tydynge streght to Fame, And she…yaf hem…duracioun, Somme to wexe and wane sone…And let hem goon.\n(1461) Paston2.239 : Writtes shall goo in-to euery shire to gyve them þat ar chosyn knyghtes of þe shire day after Michelmesse.\n(a1470) Malory Wks.(Win-C)1050/33 : Gyffe me my day that I may have justyse.\na1350 Of a mon (Hrl 2253)55 : Þis mon…Matheu ʒef a peny.\n(a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)1 Kings 18.8 : Þei han ʒifen to dauyd ten thousendes & to me a thousend.\n(a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)Bar.2.18 : Þe soule…ʒyueþ to þee glorie & riʒtwisnesse, lord.\nc1390 NHom.Narrat.(Vrn)45.313/45 : We wol ʒiue þe þe Maystri Of Beggyng and of Beggeri.\n(c1390) Chaucer CT.Pars.(Manly-Rickert)I.621 : Men oghten eschewe to cursen hire chldren and yeuen to the deuel hire engendrure.\n(c1443) Pecock Rule (Mrg M 519)9 : Þe text of holy scripture…to whom y wole goodnes ʒeve and ascrive aboue alle oþere mennes writingis.\nc1450 Ponthus (Dgb 185)31/28 : The goode name…euery man yevys to you.\nc1475 Court Sap.(Trin-C R.3.21)201 : O myghty lord…To whom mercy ys youyn of propurte.\na1500(?a1425) Lambeth SSecr.(Lamb 501)113/12 : Þe perfeccioun of þe fore-sayd science ys ʒeuyn to a souerayn doctour of þe olde philosophers, Philomen.\na1500 Chartier Treat.Hope (Rwl A.338)62/6 : That we suffre is divine punycion and…it shulde not be yevin to fortune nor to the power of mannes myght.\n(a) To bring about (a state, condition, an affliction, etc.), cause, induce;—also without obj. [quot. a1400]; cause (sb. or sth.) to have (victory, a quality, etc.); with inf. or clause: cause (sb. to do sth.); bring it about (that sb. behaves in a certain way or has sth.); ~ cas, bring a matter or situation about; ~ ded, cause death (for sb.); ~ sighte, fig. ?open (a window); (b) of God, a pagan deity: to cause (a natural process or phenomenon) to occur, send (rain, a fruitful season, etc.); (c) of a planet, heavenly body: to influence (a skill in sb.), be responsible for; encourage (a condition); with inf.: be responsible for a tendency (to be wicked or good); (d) in phrases: ~ to understonden, to give (sb.) to understand, make (sb.) understand; hit is yeven to knouen, it is given to know (sb. or sth.), (one) may know; hit is yeven to understonden, it is given (to sb.) to understand (that sth. is the case).\nc1175 Orm.(Jun 1)4018 : Drihhtin haffde ʒifenn himm Swillc blettcinng & swillc sellþe.\nc1175 Orm.(Jun 1)15498 : Þe blinde ʒaff he wel to sen.\na1200 Trin.Hom.(Trin-C B.14.52)9 : He wile…gieuen us eche wele mid him seluen on heuene.\na1200 Trin.Hom.(Trin-C B.14.52)97 : He gifð us heuene wele.\na1300 When y se blosmes (Roy 2.F.8)55 : Iesu…hyf me sone lete.\nc1300 Lay.Brut (Otho C.13)8009 : Sorwe þe his ʒefue of Constantines cunne.\nc1300 SLeg.Becket (LdMisc 108)356 : Þe bischop of wirecestre sone þere-after ded was…ase ore louerd ʒaf þat cas.\na1325(c1250) Gen.& Ex.(Corp-C 444)2922 : Fendes hem gouen sinful sped.\nc1330(?a1300) Arth.& M.(Auch)3370 : He þonked þe King of glorie Þat him hadde ʒouen þe victorie To ouercomen his fomen.\n1372 Ʒef þu ʒeuest (Adv 18.7.21)p.5 : Ʒef þu ʒef him pouerte, þan can he don no note.\na1375(1335-1361) WPal.(KC 13)2348 : God for his grete grace gof, I hadde now here horse and alle harneys þat behoves to werre.\n(a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)Judg.15.18 : Þou hast ʒifyn in þe hand of þi seruaunt þis moste helþe & victorie.\n(c1384) WBible(1) (Dc 369(2))Luke 12.51 : Gessen ʒe for I cam to ʒyue pees in to erthe?\n(a1398) Trev.Barth.(Add 27944:Seymour)854/17 : Þis stone…ʒeueþ [L confert] gladnesse.\na1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)5179 : ‘Lauerd, quer i sal him euer se?’ ‘Certes, sir, ya, godd mai wel giue [Trin-C: þat may god ʒyue].\nc1400(?c1380) Pearl (Nero A.10)270 : Þat þou lestez watz bot a rose Þat flowred and fayled as kynde hyt gef.\na1425(c1385) Chaucer TC (Benson-Robinson)3.19 : As yow list, ay ye Yeve hym in love ese or adversitee.\n(?1440) Palladius (DukeH d.2)1.508 : In somer, yef hit sight, Thyn hous to cole.\na1450(1411) Many man (Dgb 102)118 : Þou ʒaf me ded.\na1450 SLeg.MPChr.(StJ-C B.6)1268 : He beþouʒt hym of kyndehed þat man haþ to his child…kynde blood…wil ʒeue þat he were to hym mylde.\nc1450 Brut-1431(1) (Eg 650)444/7 : All þe Cetizins made a generall procession…þonkyng God of the good and gracius spede þat he had gyff to oure Kyng.\nc1450 Hys signe (Eg 3307)p.76 : He gyth to watyr sanctificacion.\nc1450 Ponthus (Dgb 185)31/10 : God…has yeaven vs suche victorye.\nc1475 Chartier Quad.(1) (UC 85)145/2 : Through cowardnesse and failed corage we yeue theym vpon vs victorie more than theire prouesse and manhoode requirith.\nc1475 Chartier Quad.(1) (UC 85)173/19 : Hard affliccion…they gyf me.\na1500 Bod.EMisc.Lapid.(BodEMisc e.558)31/245 : She [coral] gevyth hym that bereth hir goode begynnyng and goode endyng.\nc1540(?a1400) Destr.Troy (Htrn 388)10404 : He greuit þe greke and geue hym þe worse.\nc1175 Orm.(Jun 1)8678 : Te Laferrd Godd Gaff reʒʒn inoh onn eorþe.\n(a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)1 Kings 12.18 : Samuel criede to þe lord & þe lord ʒaf…reynes in þat day.\n(c1395) Chaucer CT.Fkl.(Manly-Rickert)F.1033 : Appollo, god and gouernour Of euery plaunte, herbe, tree, and flour…yeuest…To ech of hem his tyme and his sesoun.\na1425(c1395) WBible(2) (Roy 1.C.8)Deeds 14.16 : He ʒaf reyns fro heuene and times beringe fruyt.\na1425(a1400) Paul.Epist.(Corp-C 32)1 Cor.3.7 : Noþer he þat plantys noþer þe þat moystys is any thyng…but he þat gyfes growyng, þat is god.\nc1300 SLeg.Mich.(LdMisc 108)431 : Þe planetes ne doth non oþur bote ʒiuez in mannes wille, To beon luþur oþur guod.\nc1450(c1440) Scrope Othea (StJ-C H.5)35/23 : The mone yeueth chaste condicion.\na1475 Sidrak & B.(Lnsd 793)6050 : The sixte [planet] is Mercurious Þat art and kunnyng ʒeueþ to vs.\n(?1423) Let.Bk.in Bk.Lond.E.(Gldh LetBk I & K)102/12 : It is youe the Mair and Aldermen to vndirstande þat many fremen of þys Cite, hauyng non consideracioun to the seide Fraunchise, [etc.].\n?a1425(c1380) Chaucer Bo.(Benson-Robinson)2.m.7.23 : It is nat yyven to knowen hem that ben dede and consumpt.\na1450 PNoster R.Hermit (Westm-S 3)15/13 : God þoruʒ þis word…ʒyueþ vs to vndirstonde þat he wol þat man ʒyue his body to penaunce.\na1456 Marmaduke SSecr.(Ashm 59)220/20 : It is not given to þee to knowe þe priuee counseyle of God.\nc1470 Bible F.(Cleve-W q091.92-C468)55/18 : Thei shul geve thee to vndirstond þat I am he.\nc1484(a1475) Caritate SSecr.(Tak 38)167/25 : Gloryus phylysophris…be in nowmbyr viij, to home it was youyn to knowe þe secrete of siencis.\n(a) To allow (sth. to sb. or sth.);—also without obj. [quot. a1450 PNoster R.Hermit]; also, allow (a span of time to do sth.); permit (sb. a span of time) in which to do something; of a week: afford (sb. a specified number of workdays); with inf. or clause: allow (sb. to do sth., that sb. do sth.); also, make allowance (for doing sth.) [quot. a1325]; (b) with inf. or clause: to prompt (sb. to do sth., that one do sth.), incite.\nc1175(?OE) Bod.Hom.(Bod 343)96/29 : He wolde deofle þa durstinesse ʒyfæn þæt he him þær costniæn ongon.\nc1175 Orm.(Jun 1)11314 : Ʒure wuke gifeþþ ʒuw Aʒʒ sexe werrkedaʒʒess.\nc1230(?a1200) Ancr.(Corp-C 402)152/15 : Ʒef þu…ʒeuest to þe feond inʒong…nim þe aleaste forð sein Beneites salue.\na1325(c1280) SLeg.Pass.(Pep 2344)1105 : Þo þe tyme no leng ne ʒaf to by-leue þere, He [Jesus] wente toward his owe deþ in gret anguisse and ffere.\n(a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)Ps.15.10 : Þou shalt not forsaken my soule in helle, ne ʒyuen þyn halewe to seen corupcioun.\n(c1384) WBible(1) (Dc 369(2))John 6.66 : No man may come to me, no but it were ʒouun to him of my fadir.\n(a1387) Trev.Higd.(StJ-C H.1)3.151 : Daniel prayed to God þat…he wolde ʒeue þe peple for to wende homward aʒen.\nc1400(?c1380) Pearl (Nero A.10)1190 : To þat Pryncez paye hade I ay bente And ʒerned no more þen watz me geuen…To mo of his mysterys I hade ben dryuen.\nc1440(a1400) Eglam.(Thrn)671 : Thorowe prayere of þose gentillmen Twelue wokes he gaffe hym þan.\na1450(1408) Vegetius(1) (Dc 291)147/15 : It is more wisdom to ʒiue þin enemy space & wey to fle ʒif he wil þan to close hym yn wiþ strengþe þat he mowe not flee.\na1450 PNoster R.Hermit (Westm-S 3)49/32 : Strengþe haþ he noon ouer vs, but if we hym ʒyue.\na1450 SLeg.MPChr.(StJ-C B.6)2163 : Þe tyme wolde no lengere ʒeue þat he [Jesus] beleuede þere.\nc1450 ?C.d'Orl.Poems (Hrl 682)66/1928 : How is hit heth gen entresse Vnto myn hert this woful tidyngis here?\nc1475 Chartier Quad.(1) (UC 85)141/34 : Lat it auaile for to yiue som space of tyme to visite and rede the surpluse.\nc1475 Chartier Quad.(1) (UC 85)201/31 : Is…vice to us for to abuse and maynteyne oure estates ouere that that mesure yiveth vs.\n(a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)2 Esd.7.5 : God forsoþe ʒaf in myn herte…þat I noumbre hem.\na1500(?c1440) Lydg.HGS (Lnsd 699)13 : Fredam yove the parties not to spare…ther grevis to declare.\na1500 Chartier Treat.Hope (Rwl A.338)74/19 : Counseile yevith hym to chese the most helthfull party.\n(a) To grant (sb. that he do sth.); (b) ~ (an) audience, to grant (sb.) audience, give a hearing (to someone’s request).\nc1450(a1400) Orolog.Sap.(Dc 114)345/12 : Who schalle ʒive me þat I miht dye for þe?\nc1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)1.1418 : Ʒe list…to ʒeven audience To my request.\na1450(?c1421) Lydg.ST (Arun 119)1896 : He gan the kyng salue, Requiring hym…ʒeve hym audience.\na1450(?c1421) Lydg.ST (Arun 119)4516 : The wommen…hym bysought to ʒive hem audience.\na1425(c1385) Chaucer TC (Benson-Robinson)4.545 : Whan thow me hast yeve an audience, Therafter maystow telle al thi sentence.\n(a) To surrender (oneself, one’s body, a kingdom, etc. to sb. or an empire); ~ a laue to, fig. make a law yield to (unlawfulness), i.e., make unlawfulness legal; (b) to subject (oneself to death, one’s body to penance); also, subject (sb. to servitude or death); submit (oneself to sb.); ~ under in yoke, fig. submit (oneself) to the yoke; (c) with selected adverbs: ~ awei, to give up (one’s land or goods), relinquish; ~ over, abandon (a challenge); also, law ?bind over a matter, make adjournment [quot. 1448]; ~ up, relinquish (an office), give up (sth., a battle, project, an endeavor, etc.), abandon (a belief), renounce (an allegiance, matters of war, etc.); surrender (a castle, a town); also fig.; also, relinquish professional interest in (a horse), give up on [quot. 1409].\n(a1382) WBible(1) (Dc 369(1))Is.50.6 : My bodi I ʒaf to the smyteres and my chekes to the pulleris.\n(c1390) Chaucer CT.Mel.(Manly-Rickert)B.2948 : He defendeth and forbedeth a man to yeue hym self to his enemy.\nc1450(?a1400) Wars Alex.(Ashm 44)2327 : All Europe to myn enpire enterely þaim geuyn [Dub: þai geven].\na1500 Chartier Treat.Hope (Rwl A.338)93/32 : He purveith evill for the rigour of the lawe that yeveith a lawe to vnlawefullnes.\nc1275 LSSerm.(Clg A.9)186/23 : To deþe he ʒef him for us alle.\na1325(c1250) Gen.& Ex.(Corp-C 444)2573 : Ðo bad…pharaun Wimmen ben set in euerilc tun, And ðat he weren redi bi-foren, Quan ebru child suld be boren…ðe knapes to deade giuen And leten ðe mayden childre liuen.\n(c1384) WBible(1) (Dc 369(2))Rom.6.16 : To whom ʒe ʒyuen ʒou, seruauntis for to obeische, ʒe ben seruauntis of that thing to which ʒe han obeischid.\na1450 PNoster R.Hermit (Westm-S 3)15/14 : God…wol þat man ʒyue his body to penaunce.\na1450 PNoster R.Hermit (Westm-S 3)16/25 : Ʒif I ʒyue my body to alkyns bittirnes of penaunce…if I herto haue no charite, alle þes ne helpeþ nouʒt.\na1500 Chartier Treat.Hope (Rwl A.338)57/24 : The rude people…be putt down and yeven to naturall seruage, lykewise as þe mortall body is subiect to þe perdurable spirit.\na1500 Wars Alex.(Dub 213)3124 : Ʒiff [Ashm: ʒeld] hym vndir in ʒoke.\n?a1160 Peterb.Chron.(LdMisc 636)an.1132 : Henri king…dide him gyuen up ðet abb’ rice of Burch.\n?a1160 Peterb.Chron.(LdMisc 636)an.1137 : King Stephne…dide ælle in prisun til hi iafen up here castles.\n?a1160 Peterb.Chron.(LdMisc 636)an.1140 : He suor…þat he alle his castles sculde iiuen up; Sume he iaf up.\nc1225(?c1200) St.Kath.(1) (Bod 34)94/660 : Twa hundret cnihtes…ʒeuen anan up hare ʒeomere bileaue.\n(c1395) Chaucer CT.Mch.(Manly-Rickert)E.2312 : Be no lenger wrooth; I yeue it vp.\n(1397) RParl.3.379a : I…asked…whethir that we myght ʒyve up our homage for drede of our lyves.\na1400(c1303) Mannyng HS (Hrl 1701)1176 : Ne ʒyueþ neuer awey ʒoure land.\n(1409) Mem.Bk.York in Sur.Soc.125177 : No man of the sayd crafte sall putt no cure to no hors that is…under the cure of ane other man of the same crafte, bot that same other man haf clerely giffen up the same hors.\n(c1410) York MGame (Vsp B.12)97 : If þe lymer ʒeue it vp and may not ne will not do his deuoire, þan shuld þei blowe to moot for þe rechace.\nc1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)4.1082 : Lat vs ʒeve vp swiche þing as liþe in wer.\na1425(?a1400) Cloud (Hrl 674)109/9 : It is seide comounly of oo frende to anoþer, whan he is in bodely batayle: ‘Bere þe wel…& fiʒt fast, & ʒiue not up þe bataile ouer liʒtly.’\nc1440 PLAlex.(Thrn)13/31 : Here we giffe up att [?read: all] armes…& forsakes þam for euer.\n(1448) Shillingford46 : We seyde and prayed…that they myght be shewed, yf eny suche were, and it sholde ende the mater…and so dey yeve over and ajorned yn to Hengston is comyng.\nc1450(c1375) Chaucer Anel.(Benson-Robinson)343 : Ende I thus…I yeve hit up for now and evermore.\nc1450(?a1400) Wars Alex.(Ashm 44)1035 : Ʒefes ʒarely vp þe ʒerde & ʒeld me þe cite.\nc1450(a1425) MOTest.(SeldSup 52)15459 : We hald þem wers þen wode…þat gyfes away his werldly gud.\nc1450(c1425) Brut-1419 (Cmb Kk.1.12)348/20 : He…yaf it ouyr, and wolde no more of his chalang.\nc1450 Jacob's W.(Sal 174)302/6 : As tretourys þei ʒeuyn vp þe castel of god, þat is, here soule, to þe feend.\nc1450 Ponthus (Dgb 185)12/1 : He wold yeve upp his gamme…rather or he wold strive.\nc1475(a1400) Wycl.Pseudo-F.(Dub 245)296 : Hit were al oon to graunte þis & ʒiue it vp to þe fend & fyʒte no more in goddis cause.\nc1475 Mankind (Folg V.a.354)549 : By tyllynge lytyll xall I wyn; Here I gyff wppe my spade for now and for euer.\na1500(a1450) Ashmole SSecr.(Ashm 396)87/2 : Whan hoope faileth them they dieth, or yeveth vp the bataill.\na1500(a1450) Ashmole SSecr.(Ashm 396)89/16 : Yf the lord of the ascendent be infortunat…gif vp þi iourney.\na1500 Siege Jerus.(2) (Brog 2.1)86/477 : The Emparovr send Jacob to wyte yf þey wold geyfe vpe þe tovne.\nIn selected phrases: (a) ~ place (stede, wei), to submit (to sb., the devil, or a disturbance of soul), yield, give in; ~ place (stede) to subjeccioun, yield submission; (b) ~ place, of air, water, etc.: to yield (to sth., the passage of creatures), part before; ~ stede, med. of hernia: yield (when touched); of edema, a swelling, etc.: yield (to the pressure of the fingers, a touch, etc.); (c) ~ place (space, stede, wei), to make room (for sb. or sth.), leave room; also, make a place (for sb.); make way (for sb.), get out of the way of (sb., a creature); ~ the wei roum, give (sb.) a wide berth, avoid; (d) ~ stede, to flee a place; also, flee (before the sword); (e) ~ place (space, stede), to defer (to sb. or sth.); give precedence (to sb. or sth.).\n(1340) Ayenb.(Arun 57)206/27 : Ne yef naʒt…stede to þe viende.\n(c1384) WBible(1) (Dc 369(2))Gal.2.5 : Nether…we ʒauen stede [WB(2): ʒyue no place] to subieccioun.\nc1400 Bible SNT(1) (Selw 108 L.1)Eph.4.27 : Ne ʒefe ʒe no stude to þe defel.\nc1425 Found.St.Barth.53/12 : The elementys yeue way to us and seruyd oure wille.\nc1425 Found.St.Barth.56/20 : At the laste he ʒaue way to a flittyng and a tempestuous varyaunte soule, and began to aske…a preyst…what were goode yn thys to be donne.\na1450(a1396) Hilton CPerf.(Paris angl.41)7 : But be-war þat þou…ʒeue no place to þin enemyes, contynuely bisegynge þee…þat þou doost, whanne for vanyte or for idilnes þou leuest þi praiers.\na1500(1413) *Pilgr.Soul (Eg 615)4.32.78b : The chiefteynes han…yove way to hire enemyes & made the peopil pray to him.\n?a1425(c1380) Chaucer Bo.(Benson-Robinson)3.pr.11.148 : Thinges that ben softe…as is watir and eyr…departen lyghtly and yeven place to hem that breken or divyden hem; but natheles they retorne sone ageyn into the same thinges fro whennes thei ben arraced.\n?a1425 *MS Htrn.95 (Htrn 95)115a/b : Nodus…haþ a follikel oþer a sacke, and when a man toucheþ it, it ʒeueþ stede to þe touchinge.\n?a1425 *MS Htrn.95 (Htrn 95)118a/b : When þu leiest on þine honde apon þe enpostume, þe matere þat is in þe enpostume ʒeues stede to þi honde.\n?a1425 *MS Htrn.95 (Htrn 95)136b/a : Hernia aquosa…ʒeueþ stede whenne a man toucheþ it.\n?c1425 Chauliac(2) (Paris angl.25)108/11 : Of ydema…Tokenes…ben louse swellynge and softe, so þat it ʒeueþ stede [L cedit] to þe fyngres, and the impressioun…is kepte after þe remevynge of þe fyngres.\na1500(1413) *Pilgr.Soul (Eg 615)1.4.5a : The flyeng eyr yeuith place to the flyeng of birdes…the flowyng water, to swymmyng of fisshes.\na1275(?c1150) Prov.Alf.(Trin-C B.14.39)130/579 : Drunken mon wis [read: ʒif] þu mestes [read: metes] …þu ʒef him þe weie reme & let him ford gliden.\n(a1387) Trev.Higd.(StJ-C H.1)5.359 : Seynt Laurence his body…torned hym so for to ʒeve place and stede [Higd.(2): to ʒiffe space; L ut…locum praeberet] to his felawe Stevene.\n(a1398) Trev.Barth.(Add 27944:Seymour)623/23 : The swan…wiþdraweþ and ʒeueþ place [L cedit] to fisschis þat folewiþ hym.\na1400 Lanfranc (Ashm 1396)149/9 : Þilke pannicle of merye ʒeueþ stede to þe greet mete passynge doun to þe stomak.\nc1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)3.2572 : Where he rood ay þey ʒaf him place.\na1425(a1382) WBible(1) (Corp-O 4)Judg.20.36 : The which thing biholdynge, the sones of Yrael ʒeuen to hem place to flee, that thei miʒten come to the maad redi busshementis.\na1425 Wycl.Serm.(Bod 788)1.41 : Sitte not in þe first place, lest…þe lord of þe feste bidde þee Ʒiue þis man stede and put þee doun out of þi place.\n?a1425 Chauliac(3) (Htrn 95)39/1 : Þe vtilite whi þat þe grustillie ringes off þe wesaunt ben defaute towarde þe weie off þe mete is be cause þat þei schulde ʒeue stede to grete morselles þat passen þoruʒ þe merye.\n?a1425 Chauliac(3) (Htrn 95)49/31 : Þe herte…schulde decline a litil aboue to þe riʒte side þat it mowe ʒif place to þe arteries.\na1450 Castle Persev.(Folg V.a.354)3408 : For he hathe forgetyn þe þat hym wrout…And wyth þi precyous blod hym bowth And in þis world þou ʒeue hym space.\n(a1470) Malory Wks.(Win-C)280/18 : And as sir Launcelot wolde have gone thorow them, they skaterd on every syde of hym and gaff hym the way.\nc1475(1392) *MS Wel.564 (Wel 564)21b/b : Whi it [brain] is neische is for it schulde ʒeue place…to þe stirynge of vertues.\nc1475(1392) *MS Wel.564 (Wel 564)34a/a : Sche [gristle] was maad plicable, for sche schulde in tyme of fulnesse, ʒeuen place to þe stomak.\nc1475 Body Pol.(Cmb Kk.1.5)90/13 : Non of all the citizens of Athenes wolde geue no place vnto that auncient man for to sytte in.\na1500(a1460) Towneley Pl.(Hnt HM 1)279/10 : Stynt, I say! gyf men place!\n(a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)Job 39.22 : Þe hors…ʒyueþ not stede to þe swerd.\n(a1387) Trev.Higd.(StJ-C H.1)7.159 : Zacharie the bisshop put out of the temple þe kyng Osyam…and wiþ oute doute he hadde slayn hym, bote if he hadde gyfen stede [Higd.(2): but that he departede; L nisi cessisset].\n(a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)Ecclus.13.27 : Þer is not ʒouen to hym a place.\n(c1384) WBible(1) (Dc 369(2))Rom.12.19 : Ʒyue ʒe place to ire or wraththe.\nc1390 Cato(1) (Vrn)597 : Ʒif þou stude to grete men, Þauh ofte þei greueþ þe; Oþer-tyme þei may þe profyte.\n?a1425(a1415) Wycl.Lantern (Hrl 2324)117/21 : Custum mut nede ʒyue stede to trouþe.\nc1430(a1410) Love Mirror (Brsn e.9)101 : Owe lord Jesu…ʒaf stede to John, that was myche lasse.\na1450 St.Kath.(3) (Richardson 44)44 (2nd occurrence) : I had purposed to ʒeue holsom counseyll…yf þou woldest haue ʒoue stede þer to.\na1500(a1460) Towneley Pl.(Hnt HM 1)279/12 : Gyf ye me space!\na1500 Chartier Treat.Hope (Rwl A.338)67/27 : Dame Feithe…gave place vnto hir sustir Hope for to speke.\nTo lay down (one’s life) willingly (for sb. or sth., for a cause), sacrifice (one’s body, blood, or flesh); theol. of Christ: offer up (himself, his life, body, etc.) as a sacrifice, die (for sb., mankind’s sin, etc.); of God: sacrifice (his son).\nc1175 Orm.(Jun 1)ded.199 : He ʒaff hiss aʒhenn lif…To þolenn dæþþ o rodetre.\na1225(c1200) Vices & V.(1) (Stw 34)39/18 : Gif ic…ʒiue mine lichame all to barnen to duste for goddes luue, and ich hatede anlepine mann, ðanne ne habbe ic naht charite.\na1250 Wooing Lord (Tit D.18)271 : Þu ʒef þe seluen for me to lese me fra þine.\n?a1300(a1250) Harrow.H.(Dgb 86)167 : Adam, adam, ich ʒaf mi lif For þe and for eve, þi wif.\n?c1335 Loke to þi louerd (Hrl 913)25 : Ich mi lif ʒef for þe.\na1350 Lytel wotyt (Hrl 2253)35 : His herte blod he ʒef for al monkunne.\nc1350 A child is boren (Bod 26)22 : Crist…ʒahf…hys lif to bote.\n(c1384) WBible(1) (Dc 369(2))Gal.1.4 : Oure Lord Jhesu Crist…ʒaf him silf for oure synnes.\n(c1390) Chaucer CT.Pars.(Manly-Rickert)I.808 : Iesu Crist…yaf hym self for oure gilt.\nc1400 PLove (Hrl 2254)66/20 : He [Christ] ʒaffe him-self al for vs.\na1425 MChristi (Arun 286)59/1439 : Þei loved synful man so myche þat for hele of her saule þei ʒeven her lyves.\na1425 Wycl.Serm.(Bod 788)1.67 : Crist ʒaf boþe bodi and soule for relevynge of his enemyes.\nc1430(c1386) Chaucer LGW (Benson-Robinson)1538 : Wolde God that I hadde yive My blod and flesh…that he hadde owher a wif For hys estat.\na1450(c1400) Wor.Serm.(Wor F.10)54/136 : God…loued so miche þe world…þat a wold ʒe His owne sone.\na1450 PNoster R.Hermit (Westm-S 3)12/18 : He bicome man & ʒaf hymself al to me.\na1475 Rev.St.Bridget (Gar 145)123/27 : He desired feruently to haue yofe his lyf in bataile that the holy lande myght be reduced vn-to þe lordeschip of cristen men.\nc1475(?c1451) Bk.Noblesse (Roy 18.B.22)81 : Youre saide citesins and burgeis…wille withe here bodies…largelie depart to be yoven forto resist them.\na1500(1422) Yonge SSecr.(Lamb 633)191/17 : Loue your wywis as crist lowith holy church And hymself yaw for hit.\na1500 15c.Serm.Cycle(Hrl 2247:Powell)64/127 : I gife my life and my soule…for my shepe.\n(a) To put (sth. somewhere), place, set; also fig. and in fig. context; also, put (a mark on someone’s face); plant (sth.) [quot. a1382, 3rd]; ~ up, raise (one’s hands), hold up; (b) to apply (sth. to sb. or a part of the body); (c) ~ in thought, to put something into (someone’s) thought.\n(a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)Judg.7.16 : He ʒaf trumpis in þe handis of hem.\n(a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)Is.22.22 : I shal ʒyuen þe keye of þe hous of dauid vp on his shulder.\n(a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)Is.41.19 : I shal sette desert in to pondis of watris & þe lond with oute weie in to ryueres of watris; I shal ʒyuen [L Dabo] in wildernesse cedre & thorn…& olyue tree.\n(a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)Is.42.1 : Lo, my seruaunt I shal vndertaken…I ʒaf my spirit vp on hym.\n(a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)Jer.1.9 : Lo, I haue ʒyuen [L dedi] my woordis in þi mouþ.\n(a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)Bar.3.7 : Wee shul preisen þee, Lord, for þat þou hast ʒyue [L dedisti] þi drede in oure hertis.\n(c1384) WBible(1) (Dc 369(2))Luke 6.38 : Thei schulen ʒyue in to ʒoure bosum a good mesure.\n(a1387) Trev.Higd.(StJ-C H.1)4.447 : He ʒaf up his hondes to heveneward.\nc1460 Tree & Fruits HG (McC 132)116/18 : I haue yiven a token in þi face þat þou shalt draw to þe by myldenes.\na1475 Bk.Quint.(Sln 73)12/21 : Sette it wiþinne a pott of watir, and ʒeue vndirneþe a fier til þe watir…be distillid.\na1400(c1303) Mannyng HS (Hrl 1701)4860 : Ʒyueþ [vr. ʒeuyf] hem [children] þe smert ende of þe ʒerde.\nc1475 Mankind (Folg V.a.354)805 : Gyff þe roppe just to pye [read: þye] neke.\n(c1390) Chaucer CT.Pri.(Manly-Rickert)B.1794 : Iesu…yaf in hir thought…That…after hir sone she cryde.\nTo go or move back, give way;—used in fig. context; ~ abak, withdraw, retreat; ~ abouten, surround (sb.).\nc1390 PLove (Vrn)108/25 : Ʒiueþ [Hrl 2254: my soule is sum-tyme als hard as an adamaunt, & myne inli wittes are clongen for drynesse & for colde, but þourʒe þe vertu of cristes loue hit brekeþ & melteþ & vn-ʒeueþ as wax a-ʒen þe fire & goth oute fro hit-self and turneþ al in-to god].\na1425(c1384) WBible(1) (Corp-O 4)Ezek.4.8 : Y ʒaue about, or cumpaside [L circumdedi], thee with boondis.\n(a1470) Malory Wks.(Win-C)267/18 : Sir Terquyne wexed faynte, and gaff somwhat abakke.\n?c1475 *Cath.Angl.(Add 15562)54b : To Gyffe Abowt: Circumdare.\nIn phrase: ~ oute, to expend (sth.), use up; ben yeven aboven (over), fig. of a person: be spent, be used.\n(a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)Judith 11.12 : Þese thingis þei han thoʒt to ʒyuyn out [L impendere].\na1425(c1395) WBible(2) (Roy 1.C.8)2 Cor.12.15 : Y my silf schal be ʒouun aboue [WB(1) vr. ʒouen ouer; L superimpendar] for ʒoure soulis.\nc1484(a1475) Caritate SSecr.(Tak 38)127/18 : He þat lyghtly with laues spendyth or yefth owte hys goode, he schal sone come to þe wrecchydnes of byttyr pouirte.\nIn misc. senses: (a) of one’s heart: to misgive (one), rouse apprehension in (oneself); (b) in phrase: ~ for treuth, to accept (sth.) as the truth, take for truth; (c) the word ‘yeven’ (in its var. spellings with initial ʒ- and g-).\nc1325(c1300) Glo.Chron.A (Clg A.11)9762 : Is herte him ʒef; anon wunderward hii wende.\nc1380 Firumb.(1) (Ashm 33)1450 : Myn herte me ʒifþ þat ʒif he…takeþ þat iornee Þat þow ne seest hym no more.\nc1450 Metham Days Moon (Gar 141)155/31 : Ye schal noght syngulerely for trwth take yt that yt schuld be so…But this ye may yeue for trwthe…that yff a man or a woman be born on sqwyche a day off the mone…he ys, or sche ys, dysposyd so as to haue wurchyp, or ellys troubyl.\nc1425 Wycl.Concord.in Spec.43 (Roy 17.B.1)271 : In Englisch as in Latyn ben wordis synonemus, þat is to seie, manie wordis bitokenynge oo þing, as ‘kirke’ & ‘chirche’…‘clepe’ & ‘calle’, ‘ʒyue’ & ‘gyue’, ‘ʒift’ & ‘gift’.\n(c1280) Cart.St.John in OHS 68368 : Willelmus Gyuecorn.\n(1333) Sub.R.Stf.in WSAS 1084 : Wm. Gefcok.\n(1443) Reg.Gild Stratford (Macdonald)36 : All the aldirmen, by resonabull warnynge once evene [read: gevene], be ther redy Ichone of them uppon peyne to pay to the seyd Gilde..xl d.\nNote: New form: ppl. (error) evene.\nNote: Quot. belongs to sense 13.(d).--notes per MLL