unˈgyve, v.
[un-2 4 b.]
trans. To free from gyves or fetters. Also fig.
| 1531 Elyot Gov. ii. vi, He..commaunded hym to be ungyued and sette at libertie. 1569 Newton Cicero's Olde Age 4, I haue knowen a great maignie..who were well pleased to be ungiued, loosed, and deliuered out of the yoke of their sensuall lustes. 1610 Healey St. Aug. Citie of God 310 Our intellect being ungived from the body, if it want the light of God's truth, it must needes lament and languish. 1831 Carlyle Sart. Res. ii. ix, My mind's eyes were now unsealed, and its hands ungyved. |