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Meaning of engyve | Babel Free

Verb CEFR B1

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[…].”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.

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