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engyve

engyve verb: to put in gyves or shackles.

Verb

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

  1. (obsolete, rare) To 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
    • 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

Forms of engyve

third-person singular presentengyves
present participleengyving
past participleengyved
pastengyved

Origin of engyve

From en- + gyve.

Questions about engyve

What does engyve mean?
Engyve means to put in gyves or shackles.
What part of speech is engyve?
Engyve is a verb.
What is the past tense of engyve?
The past tense of engyve is engyved.

Words near engyve in the dictionary

  1. engulphed
  2. engulphing
  3. engulphs
  4. engyscope
  5. engyscopes
  6. engyve
  7. enhabit
  8. enhabitant
  9. enhabitants
  10. enhabited
  11. enhabiting

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