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- verb Obsolete spelling of
given .
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Examples
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Gias (a name giuen him of his mightiness and power) is of the bloud of Dauid, continued from one generation to another (as they are perswaded) by so many yeres of succession.
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The holie fathers estemed this Sacrament so highly, that if the name giuen to the childe at his Christendome, siemed not good: the
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The holie fathers estemed this Sacrament so highly, that if the name giuen to the childe at his
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 06 Madiera, the Canaries, Ancient Asia, Africa, etc. Richard Hakluyt 1584
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Countreys new discovered where commoditie is to be looked for, doe better accord with a new name giuen by the discouerers, then an vncertaine name by
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation, Vol. XII., America, Part I. Richard Hakluyt 1584
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[Sidenote: A name giuen to the place new discouered.]
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation, Vol. XII., America, Part I. Richard Hakluyt 1584
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This King, of all other the worthiest, whome they call Gias (a name giuen him of his mightiness and power) is of the bloud of Dauid, continued from one generation to another (as they are perswaded) by so many yeres of succession.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 06 Madiera, the Canaries, Ancient Asia, Africa, etc. Richard Hakluyt 1584
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But he presently vpon a watchword giuen with his Maister sodainely laid hold vpon the two Saluages.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation, Vol. XII., America, Part I. Richard Hakluyt 1584
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Surely as it is moft proude it can do nothinge but darken the grace of God, and fill men with froward pride. 1 he olde wryters of the Churchjl graunt, haue commonly vfed it, and 1 would to God they had not with the abufinge of one litle word giuen to poftcritic matter of crrour.
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Iohn Mandeuil Knight, borne in the towne of S. Albons, was so well giuen to the studie of learning from his childhood, that he seemed to plant a good part of his felicitie in the same: for he supposed that the honour of his birth would nothing auaile him, except he could render the same more honourable by his knowledge in good letters.
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The sixteth Sacramente is penaunce or repentaunce, giuen of
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