engifted

1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of engift

comparative more engifted · superlative most engifted

1. Having been given a gift.

   Whose hand above this blaze is lifted Shall be with magic touch engifted

   2009, Luther Gulick, Camp Fire Girls, →ISBN, page 1

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   Can we conceive a body of men, engifted with a mightier privilege than that of being salvation to hundreds of thousands of crushed and trampled human beings?

   1851, Vegetarian Messenger - Volumes 2-10, page 36

   The new knowledge of faith also gives the gift of Love, now understood to be pervasive of all reality within which we, as thus engifted to love, now understand the possibility to love beyond even our best actualities.

   1999, Francis J. Ambrosio, The Question of Christian Philosophy Today, →ISBN, pages 153–154

2. Possessing a special and desirable trait.

   God's kids are waking up, and those who are engifted with management skill and understanding are especially aroused.

   1996, Peacock, Doing Business God's Way, →ISBN, page 6

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   ... were I engifted with the Promethean art of that Michael Angelo of literature, Sir Walter Scott, then should this picture of my romantic and incomparable friend, and his “delightful home,” exist for ever -- its coulouring should never fade, but bloom immortal, as the hues of Guido, and the tints of Titian.

   1830, The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction

   Come, Goddesses! engifted with ten millions Of charms, ne'er yet expressed or understood By Bard of earthly mould, -- quick! mount your pillions, and goad your donkies of Medusian blood;

   1833, The Irish Monthly Magazine of Politics and Literature. Volume 2

   Not to be learnt in a day, by those engifted with genius, Nor by the common-place herd can Art be acquirt in a life-time ;

   1868, Compton Reade, Basilissa; the free of a secret craft. A poem, page 8

1. pluralplural onlyPersons in possession of a gift.

   But not just any old soul will do: only the souls of the engifted can be decanted.

   2014, David Mitchell, The Bone Clocks, →ISBN, pages 435–436

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   In both instances this goal toward which the gift is directed dissociates the engifted from the gift, whereas his opponents would identify the two.

   2007, John Howard Schütz, Paul and the Anatomy of Apostolic Authority, →ISBN, page 258