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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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32 words match “GIVER”

One who gives; a donor; a bestower; a grantor; one who imparts or distributes. It is the giver, and not the gift, that engrosses the heart of the Christian. Kollock.

A giver of alms.

One who forgives. Johnson.

One who makes or enacts a law or system of laws; a legislator.

TERGIVERSATE v.

To shift; to practice evasion; to use subterfuges; to shuffle. [R.] Bailey.

TERGIVERSATION n. 2 definitions

The act of tergiversating; a shifting; shift; subterfuge; evasion. Writing is to be preferred before verbal conferences, as being freer from passions and tergiversations. Abp. Bramhall.

TERGIVERSATOR n.

One who tergiversates; one who suffles, or practices evasion.

One who gives thanks, or acknowledges a kindness. Barrow.

A giver of alms. [R.] Halliwell.

ent; beneficent; free in bestowing gifts; as, bounteous production. But O, thou bounteous Giver of all good. Cowper. -- Boun"te*ous*ly, adv. -- Boun"te*ous*ness, n.

One who bestows; a giver.

directions to the servants. The princes digged the well . . . by the direction of the law giver. Numb. xxi. 18.

One who makes a gift; a donor; a giver.

Pertaining to Draco, a famous lawgiver of Athens, 621 b. c. Draconian code, or Draconian laws, a code of laws made by Draco. Their measures were so severe that they were said to be written in letters of blood; hence, any laws of excessive rigor.

Relating to Draco, the Athenian lawgiver; or to the constellation Draco; or to dragon's blood.

y a debt, but flattery is a present. Rambler. Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver. Burke.

ove, etc.; -- often used with of or to. Accept an obligation without being a slave to the giver, or insensible to his kindness. Sir H. Wotton. Lost in their loves, insensible of shame. Dryden.

Anything kept, or given to be kept, for the sake of the giver; a token of friendship.

A legislator; a lawgiver.

A lawgiver; one who makes laws for a state or community; a member of a legislative body. The legislators in ancient and heroical times. Bacon. Many of the legislators themselves had taken an oath of abjuration of his Majesty's person and family. E. Phillips.