Word Finder - gift

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Something given to another voluntarily, without charge.

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A talent or natural ability.

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She had a gift for playing the flute.

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Something gained incidentally, without effort.

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The act, right, or power of giving or bestowing.

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The office is in the gift of the President.

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To give as a gift or donation.

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To give away, to concede easily.

Send the beautiful gift to him.

I had one gift which especially pleased me.

Let it be a free gift to them from the city.

It's like a gift I've been given and I'm supposed to do something with it and if I don't, I'm...

The Wolfman showed up in Mrs. Worthington's trunk and two of her friends, the gift shop owner included, reported a mummy and an assortment of armor.

Does she understand how important her gift is?

I'm offering you full funding for your endeavor; secure operating quarters, any place of your choice, sizeable salaries for all of you involved and a gift of stock to each that will assure a lifetime income from dividends.

A snuffbox with the Emperor's portrait is a reward but not a distinction," said the diplomatist--"a gift, rather."

And my unique gift could make the bad guys immune to the good guys.

Here he was confronted by his first wife or victim, Anne Thorssen, whose claims he satisfied by the gift of a ship and promises of an annuity, and on his identity becoming known he was sent by the authorities to Copenhagen, where he arrived on the 30th of September.

Marillier sacrifice was, at its origin, essentially a magical rite - the liberation by the effusion of a victim's blood of a magical force which was to bend the gods to the will of man; from this arose, under the influence of cult of the dead, the gift theory of sacrifice.

Whereas the god receives a gift in the honorific sacrifice, he demands a life in the piacular.

The golden apples, the gift of Aphrodite to Hippomenes before his race with Atalanta, were also plucked from the garden of the Hesperides.

Meanwhile he had tried, he says, to conquer his inclination for the unprofitable trade of poetry, but in the panic caused by the revelations of Titus Oates, he found an opportunity for the exercise of his gift for rough satire.

If she had remarried, all her children shared equally in her dowry, but the first husband's gift fell to his children or to her selection among them, if so empowered.

For pure mathematics he had a special gift - almost a passion.

This latter idea was the more likely to arise, as the gift theory of sacrifice is closely associated with that of the god as the ruler or king to whom man brings a tribute, just as he had to appear before his earthly king bearing gifts in his hands.

At Winchester the paschal candlestick was of silver, and was the gift of Canute..

Conditions might be annexed by the master to the gift of freedom, as of continued residence with him, or of general service or some particular duty to be performed, or of a money payment to be made.

Wesley's supreme gift was his genius for organization.

With his energy, ability and gift of dominating and organizing, he might indeed have done a great deal.

He realized the situation in a moment, galloped to the new scene of action, and at once grouped his forces for decisive action - the gift in which he was supreme.

He had an admirable gift of lucid, direct narrative, and an unfailing fund of incident, and of humour, sometimes bordering on farce.

He has, indeed, described in graphic terms the greatest of the more superficial changes he underwent; how he had " carried into logical and ethical problems the maxims and postulates of physical knowledge," and had moved within the narrow lines drawn by the philosophical instructions of the class-room " interpreting human phenomena by the analogy of external nature "; how he served in willing captivity " the ` empirical ' and ` necessarian ' mode of thought," even though " shocked " by the dogmatism and acrid humours " of certain distinguished representatives "; 1 and how in a period of " second education " at Berlin, " mainly under the admirable guidance of Professor Trendelenburg," he experienced " a new intellectual birth" which " was essentially the gift of fresh conceptions, the unsealing of hidden openings of self-consciousness, with unmeasured corridors and sacred halls behind; and, once gained, was more or less available throughout the history of philosophy, and lifted the darkness from the pages of Kant and even Hegel."

Luther himself had a gift of words which through his catechisms made the reformed theologypopular in Germany.

Possessing the gift of divination, she warned her husband of the evils that would result from his journey to Greece.

Above all, they alone seem to have had the gift of guiding the most difficult of nations properly.

Personal experience had ripened his rare natural gift for avoiding dangers.

More stated that he had received a cup as a New Year's gift.

His greatest administrative gift was a fine intuition in choosing men to serve him.

Self-conscious of the effect her gift had on people, she moved deeper into the booth.

I think I need more practice with my gift.

However, there are boundaries to your gift that I must give you now.

Any guns acquired by gift or by will have to be registered.

A fantastic gift for a tiny babies, Lullaby Ellie is simply adorable.

For unmarried bridesmaids, the best bridesmaid's gift is the bouquet tossed by the bride at her reception.

The entire gift is sprinkled with sparkling metallic wedding confetti.

The perfect gift for the would be wine connoisseur in your life.

This fabulously romantic gift box contains everything you need for a weekend of unadulterated debauchery.

Without their generous donation of the gift of life, lives would be lost.

And being a gift giver may have powerful affect on your career.

For great gift ideas or a last minute gift for the one you love.

A personal gift of intimate lingerie is one of the most romantic things you can ever do.

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If you've got a comedic streak or a gift for writing prose you could take part in next year's Fringe.

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For this service he was promoted in rank, and received a gift of the castle and isle of Indre, near Nantes.

In 1 434 he received a gift from Philip the Good, duke of Burgundy, for his military services, but on the conclusion of the peace of Arras in the next year he abandoned soldiering for diplomacy.

The first step would be the acquisition of a plot of ground either by gift or purchase for the formation of a tomb.

The power of Naevius was the more genuine Italian gift - the power of satiric criticism - which was employed in making men ridiculous, not, like that of Plautus, in extracting amusement from the humours, follies and eccentricities of life.