Definition of gift

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Gift (v. t.) The act, right, or power of giving or bestowing; as, the office is in the gift of the President..

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Premious :: Premious (a.) Rich in gifts.
Gifted :: Gifted (imp. & p. p.) of Gif.
Dataria :: Dataria (n.) Formerly, a part of the Roman chancery; now, a separate office from which are sent graces or favors, cognizable in foro externo, such as appointments to benefices. The name is derived from the word datum, given or dated (with the indications of the time and place of granting the gift or favor)..
Legacy :: Legacy (n.) A gift of property by will, esp. of money or personal property; a bequest. Also Fig.; as, a legacy of dishonor or disease..
Beneficiary :: Beneficiary (a.) Bestowed as a gratuity; as, beneficiary gifts..
Glossolaly :: Glossolaly (n.) The gift of tongues. Farrar.
Munnerary :: Munnerary (a.) Having the nature of a gift.
Dower :: Dower (n.) That with which one is gifted or endowed; endowment; gift.
Present :: Present (a.) Hence: To endow; to bestow a gift upon; to favor, as with a donation; also, to court by gifts..
Mortuary :: Mortuary (a.) 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..
Corban :: Corban (n.) An alms basket; a vessel to receive gifts of charity; a treasury of the church, where offerings are deposited..
Bribe :: Bribe (v. i.) To give a bribe to a person; to pervert the judgment or corrupt the action of a person in a position of trust, by some gift or promise..
Gift :: Gift (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..
Pittance :: Pittance (n.) An allowance of food bestowed in charity; a mess of victuals; hence, a small charity gift; a dole..
Blessing :: Blessing (v. t.) A means of happiness; that which promotes prosperity and welfare; a beneficent gift.
Handsel :: Handsel (n.) A sale, gift, or delivery into the hand of another; especially, a sale, gift, delivery, or using which is the first of a series, and regarded as on omen for the rest; a first installment; an earnest; as the first money received for the sale of goods in the morning, the first money taken at a shop newly opened, the first present sent to a young woman on her wedding day, etc..
Pentecost :: Pentecost (n.) A solemn festival of the Jews; -- so called because celebrated on the fiftieth day (seven weeks) after the second day of the Passover (which fell on the sixteenth of the Jewish month Nisan); -- hence called, also, the Feast of Weeks. At this festival an offering of the first fruits of the harvest was made. By the Jews it was generally regarded as commemorative of the gift of the law on the fiftieth day after the departure from Egypt..
Ingeny :: Ingeny (n.) Natural gift or talent; ability; wit; ingenuity.
Donation :: Donation (n.) The act or contract by which a person voluntarily transfers the title to a thing of which be is the owner, from himself to another, without any consideration, as a free gift..
Doniferous :: Doniferous (a.) Bearing gifts.
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