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GIFT, n. from give. A present any thing given or bestowed any thing, the property of which is voluntarily transferred by one person to another without compensation a donation. It is applicable to any thing movable or immovable.

1. The act of giving or conferring.
2. The right or power of giving or bestowing. The prince has the gift of many lucrative offices.
3. An offering or oblation.

If thou bring thy gift to the altar. Matthew 5

4. A reward.

Let thy gifts be to thyself. Daniel 5

5. A bribe any thing given to corrupt the judgment.

Neither take a gift for a gift doth blind the eyes of the wise. Deuteronomy 16

6. Power faculty some quality or endowment conferred by the author of our nature as the gift of wit the gift of ridicule.

GIFT, To endow with any power or faculty.

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Entry for 'Gift'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​kjd/​g/gift.html.
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