† gifturen.
Obsolete.
1. The action of giving; also the right of giving. Cf. gift n.1 1. upon gifture: gratuitously.
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the mind > possession > giving > [noun]
givec1275
gifta1300
giving13..
donationc1425
gifture1503
rendering1523
donature1629
1503 Will of Lady Hastings in Test. Vetusta II. 452 A faire prymmar, which I had by the yefture of Queen Elizabeth.
1583 P. Stubbes Second Pt. Anat. Abuses sig. L3v In whome doth the patronage, right, and gifture of these ecclesiastical promotions, and benefices consist?
1634 W. Wood New Englands Prospect ii. v. 65 The English will not be so liberall as to furnish them upon gifture.
2. A gift; a prize.
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the mind > possession > giving > gift or present > [noun]
givec888
lakeOE
presentc1230
giftc1275
garrison1297
benefit1377
beneficec1380
givinga1382
handsela1393
donativec1430
oblation1433
propine1448
presentationc1460
don1524
sportule1538
premie?1548
first penny1557
donation1577
exhibition1579
donary1582
fairing1584
merced1589
gifture1592
meed1613
recado1615
regalo1622
regale1649
dation1656
compliment1702
dashee1705
dash1788
cadeau1808
bestowment1837
potlatch1844
prez.1919
Harry Freeman's1925
pressie1933
1592 W. Wyrley Lord Chandos in True Vse Armorie 63 Willing the gifter to some other wight.
1615 R. Cleaver Briefe Explan. Prov. 48 The wealth of the godly is the peculiar gifture of wisedome.
Compounds
C1. attributive, as gifture-banquet.
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1609 P. Holland tr. Ammianus Marcellinus Rom. Hist. xix. vi. 12 Solemn doles, or gifture banquets.
C2.
gifture-ore n. a quantity of ore given as a customary due.
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1631 in S. R. Gardiner Rep. Cases Star Chamber & High Comm. (1886) 90 The Deputy Barre Masters..would not measure their oare unlesse they would pay them their gifter oare.
1632 in S. R. Gardiner Rep. Cases Star Chamber & High Comm. (1886) 98 There was some given to the Deputy Barre Masters for their paines, and it is called therefore gifter oare.
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