engyve

Definitions

To put in gyves or shackles.

obsolete, rare

Examples

“We have⟳ enough to doe, to endure the burthen of them, and are so engived and shackled in them, as if we were to fight⟳ but with the shocke or brunt of our armes: And as if we were as much bound to defend⟳ them, as they to shield us.”

“It is now, to the believer, not a tyrant to be dreaded, but a minister to perform⟳ a needed office; not a jailer to engyve us with the fetters of bondage, but a servant to assist us in unrobing for our entrance into the banqueting house[…].”

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