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Natural gift or talent; ability; wit; ingenuity. [Obs.] [Written also ingenie.] Becon.

A permanent or valuable possession or blessing, esp. one received by gift or without purchase; a benefaction. To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away. 1 Pet. i. 4.

The capacity to know or understand; readiness of comprehension; the intellect, as a gift or an endowment. And dimmed with darkness their intelligence. Spenser.

into use; to take or have effect; to be applied; to serve to the use or benefit of; as, a gift of lands inures to the heirs. [Written also enure.]

A present; a gift; a bounty bestowed. The heralds finished their proclamation with their usual cry of "Largesse, largesse, gallant knights!" and gold and silver pieces were showered on them from the galleries. Sir W. Scott.

The bestowment of a largess or gift. [Obs.]

r hat in the hall; we left our cards; to leave the matter to arbitrators. Leave there thy gift before the altar and go thy way. Matt. v. 24. The foot That leaves the print of blood where'er it walks. Shak.

A gift of property by will, esp. of money or personal property; a bequest. Also Fig.; as, a legacy of dishonor or disease.

arge way; hence, more than sufficient; abundant; bountiful; ample; profuse; as, a liberal gift; a liberal discharge of matter or of water. His wealth doth warrant a liberal dower. Shak.

A gift; a gratuity; -- sometimes in the plural; as, a prudent man is not impoverished by his liberalities.

d of God what them listeth. Hooker. Let other men think of your devices as they list. Whitgift.

A gift; also, a bride. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A tax or tallage; in Wales, an honorary gift of the people to a new king or prince of Wales; also, a tribute paid, in the country palatine of Chester, England, at the change of the owner of the earldom. [Obs.]

A gift to some charitable or religious institution; -- nearly synonymous with mortmain.

A sort of ecclesiastical heriot, a customary gift claimed by, and due to, the minister of a parish on the death of a parishioner. It seems to have been originally a voluntary bequest or donation, intended to make amends for any failure in the payment of tithes of which the deceased had been guilty.

Having the nature of a gift. [Obs.]

Natural gifts, impulses, etc. [Obs.] Fuller.

Of or pertaining to, or suitable for, the commencement of the year; as, New-year gifts or odes.

n. The book ... giveth liberty to object any crime against such as are to be ordered. Whitgift.

A gift or contribution made to a church, as for the expenses of the eucharist, or for the support of the clergy and the poor.