- OE. givenyivenyeven, AS. gifangiefan; akin to D. geven, OS. geðan, OHG. geban, G. geben, Icel. gefa, Sw. gifva, Dan. give, Goth. giban. Cf. Giftn.
- To bestow without receiving a return; to confer without compensation; to impart, as a possession; to grant, as authority or permission; to yield up or allow.For generous lords had rather give than pay.
- To yield possesion of; to deliver over, as property, in exchange for something; to pay; as, we give the value of what we buy.What shall a man give in exchange for his soul ?
- To yield; to furnish; to produce; to emit; as, flint and steel give sparks.
- To communicate or announce, as advice, tidings, etc.; to pronounce; to render or utter, as an opinion, a judgment, a sentence, a shout, etc.
- To grant power or license to; to permit; to allow; to license; to commission.It is given me once again to behold my friend.Then give thy friend to shed the sacred wine.
- To exhibit as a product or result; to produce; to show; as, the number of men, divided by the number of ships, gives four hundred to each ship.
- To devote; to apply; used reflexively, to devote or apply one's self; as, the soldiers give themselves to plunder; also in this sense used very frequently in the past participle; as, the people are given to luxury and pleasure; the youth is given to study.
- Logic & MathTo set forth as a known quantity or a known relation, or as a premise from which to reason; -- used principally in the passive form given.
- To allow or admit by way of supposition.I give not heaven for lost.
- To attribute; to assign; to adjudge.I don't wonder at people's giving him to me as a lover.
- To excite or cause to exist, as a sensation; as, to give offense; to give pleasure or pain.
- To pledge; as, to give one's word.
- To cause; to make; -- with the infinitive; as, to give one to understand, to know, etc.But there the duke was given to understand That in a gondola were seen together Lorenzo and his amorous Jessica.
- To afford a view of; as, his window gave the park.To GiveConferGrant.
