engyve

E1N1G2Y4V4E1

verb

To put in gyves or shackles.

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Meanings

verbengyve (third-person singular simple present engyves, present participle engyving, simple past and past participle engyved)

present singular third person engyves · participle present engyving · participle past engyved · past engyved

  1. obsoleterareTo put in gyves or shackles.

    We have enough to doe, to endure the burthen of them, and are so engived and shackled in them, as if we were to fight but with the shocke or brunt of our armes: And as if we were as much bound to defend them, as they to shield us.

    1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 9, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC
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    It is now, to the believer, not a tyrant to be dreaded, but a minister to perform a needed office; not a jailer to engyve us with the fetters of bondage, but a servant to assist us in unrobing for our entrance into the banqueting house[…].

    1887, The Homiletic Review, volume XIV

Origin

From en- + gyve.

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