Definition of gift

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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..

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Present :: Present (n.) Anything presented or given; a gift; a donative; as, a Christmas present..
Alms :: Alms (n. sing. & pl.) Anything given gratuitously to relieve the poor, as money, food, or clothing; a gift of charity..
Propine :: Propine (n.) A gift; esp., drink money..
Beneficiary :: Beneficiary (n.) One who receives anything as a gift; one who receives a benefit or advantage; esp. one who receives help or income from an educational fund or a trust estate.
Liberality :: Liberality (n.) A gift; a gratuity; -- sometimes in the plural; as, a prudent man is not impoverished by his liberalities..
Ingeny :: Ingeny (n.) Natural gift or talent; ability; wit; ingenuity.
Donation :: Donation (n.) That which is given as a present; that which is transferred to another gratuitously; a gift.
Dowry :: Dowry (n.) A gift or presents for the bride, on espousal. See Dower..
Vouchsafement :: Vouchsafement (n.) The act of vouchsafing, or that which is vouchsafed; a gift or grant in condescension..
Sensible :: Sensible (a.) Possessing or containing sense or reason; giftedwith, or characterized by, good or common sense; intelligent; wise..
Stand :: Stand (n.) To have or maintain a position, order, or rank; to be in a particular relation; as, Christian charity, or love, stands first in the rank of gifts..
Congruity :: Congruity (n.) That, in an imperfectly good persons, which renders it suitable for God to bestow on him gifts of grace..
Resend :: Resend (v. t.) To send back; as, to resend a gift..
Endow :: Endow (v. t.) To enrich or furnish with anything of the nature of a gift (as a quality or faculty); -- followed by with, rarely by of; as, man is endowed by his Maker with reason; to endow with privileges or benefits..
Inheritance :: Inheritance (n.) A permanent or valuable possession or blessing, esp. one received by gift or without purchase; a benefaction..
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..
Donee :: Donee (n.) The person to whom a gift or donation is made.
Premious :: Premious (a.) Rich in gifts.
Yift :: Yift (n.) Gift.
Pandora :: Pandora (n.) A beautiful woman (all-gifted), whom Jupiter caused Vulcan to make out of clay in order to punish the human race, because Prometheus had stolen the fire from heaven. Jupiter gave Pandora a box containing all human ills, which, when the box was opened, escaped and spread over the earth. Hope alone remained in the box. Another version makes the box contain all the blessings of the gods, which were lost to men when Pandora opened it..
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