Gift
[gɪft] or [ɡɪft]
Definition
(v. t.) Anything given; anything voluntarily transferred by one person to another without compensation; a present; an offering.
(v. t.) The act, right, or power of giving or bestowing; as, the office is in the gift of the President.
(v. t.) A bribe; anything given to corrupt.
(v. t.) Some quality or endowment given to man by God; a preeminent and special talent or aptitude; power; faculty; as, the gift of wit; a gift for speaking.
(v. t.) A voluntary transfer of real or personal property, without any consideration. It can be perfected only by deed, or in case of personal property, by an actual delivery of possession.
(v. t.) To endow with some power or faculty.
Typed by Enid
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Donation, present, benefaction, boon, gratuity, grant, offering, contribution, subscription, donative, largess, SUBSIDY, allowance, endowment, bounty, bequest, legacy, dower, demise, dotation, DOUCEUR.[2]. Talent, power, faculty, capability, capacity, ability, endowment, genius, FORTE, turn.
Inputed by Elizabeth
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Donation, present, grant, boon, gratuity, benefaction, endowment, talent,faculty, alms, douceur
ANT:Reservation, refusal, wages, purchase, earnings, compensation, remuneration,inanity, stupidity, forfeit, penalty, fine, surrender
Editor: Quentin
Definition
n. a thing given: a bribe: a quality bestowed by nature: the act of giving.—v.t. to endow with any power or faculty.—adj. Gift′ed endowed by nature: intellectual.—ns. Gift′-horse a horse given as a gift; Gift′ling a little gift.—Look a gift horse in the mouth to criticise a gift.
Typed by Garrett
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream that you receive gifts from any one, denotes that you will not be behind in your payments, and be unusually fortunate in speculations or love matters. To send a gift, signifies displeasure will be shown you, and ill luck will surround your efforts. For a young woman to dream that her lover sends her rich and beautiful gifts, denotes that she will make a wealthy and congenial marriage.
Editor: Moll
Examples
- But liberty had been a useless gift to me had I not, as I awakened to reason, at the same time awakened to revenge. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- Nor has he--except for their one great gift to him. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- This invention is practically a gift to the workingmen of the world and their families. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- During the Tudor and Stuart reigns a fashionable gift at christenings was the apostle, so called because at the end of the handle was the figure of an apostle. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Gramercy for the gift, bold yeoman, said the Knight; and better help than thine and thy rangers would I never seek, were it at my utmost need. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- He had a penny too--a gift of Sowerberry's after some funeral in which he had acquitted himself more than ordinarily well--in his pocket. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- To you, therefore, the gift is of little value,--and to me, what I part with is of much less. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- And without doubt the lady so crushed with gifts would find them irresistible. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Under such circumstances a judicious man changes the topic and enters on ground where his own gifts may be more useful. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Neither must we sing to them of 'Gifts persuading gods, and persuading reverend kings. Plato. The Republic.
- And it was from the gifts bestowed upon him towards the execution of this benevolent purpose, that he recruited his finances, as just now observed. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- They also bear abundant evidence of the compatibility of these two widely divergent gifts existing, even to a high degree, in the same person. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- One of Lydgate's gifts was a voice habitually deep and sonorous, yet capable of becoming very low and gentle at the right moment. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- These brooches and these rings, of a beauty so gracious and celestial, were what one called, with the permission of Monsieur, nuptial gifts. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- I mean to say that there do exist natures gifted with those opposite qualities. Plato. The Republic.
- The contest,' said Pott, 'shall be prolonged so long as I have health and strength, and that portion of talent with which I am gifted. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Who was better framed than this highly-gifted youth to love and be beloved, and to reap unalienable joy from an unblamed passion? Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- The directness and endurance of the influence of this trained veteran on his gifted son a hundred fine incidents attest. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- But observation shows that children are gifted with an equipment of the first order for social intercourse. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- And may we not say, Adeimantus, that the most gifted minds, when they are ill-educated, become pre-eminently bad? Plato. The Republic.
- America had also received the taint; and, were it yellow fever or plague, the epidemic was gifted with a virulence before unfelt. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
Checked by Douglas