And this is a speciall privilege geven to us: that other creatures have no capacitie, to skill what bewtie or measure meaneth.
And after he was urged to put himselffe uppon his tryall, and was put in remembraunce what the punishment of the lawe was, yf judgement were geven against him, de payne fort et dure.
And after beinge asked what he could saye whye judgment of deathe should not be geven against him, he aunswered that the offence was pardoned, the pardone was redd, and yt was told him that his offence was excepted out of the pardone.
But what was in the said hamps, was privately conveyed away by Winter w^{th}out her knowledge, and the hamps was geven to her use.
Geven in the Inne for glasses broken, and in rewardes to the meanar servauntes at Barnett, xxx's.
Item on other tyme for a couple of capons geven to Master Fforster ij s.
Master Lathell and Master More and for iiij hennys geven to them and for the costs of the same man and his hors iij s.
XLIV That lytle boye was the towne swyne-heard, And kept fayre Alyce’s swyne; Oft he had seene Wyllyam in the wodde, And geven hym there to dyne.
And in this meane tyme I shall not fayle God willing to enforce and make redy the power of this castle and isle for the resisting of all daungers and sudden attemptes w^[ch] may be geven by the ennymy to the uttermost of ower power.
St. Luke the translator's preface ends, "Geven at London the last day of Septembre, in the yere of our Lorde M.
St. John's Gospel the preface ends, "Geven at Basile the yere of our Lord, M.
To symboliz right, the sound of the voual is first to be observed, quhither it be a simple voual or a compound, and quhilk of them is to be chosen, for quhilk no rule can be geven but the judgement of the ear.
And ther wasgeven away in presents as followeth, viz.
Adames, he haveing geven hym a present of ginco (or a kind of lignum allowaies).
And ther was 50 tais plate barsgeven to Skidayen Dono for to make his voyag to Syam, he being capt.
The ship carpenters made complaint because the howse carpenters wrought abord our shipps, and got the kyng to warne the howse carpenters not to doe soe no more, although he had formerly geven me leave.
And there was 3 sackes rise, of 50 gantes per sack, geven to 3 pore Chinas which lost their junck per tempest of the cost of Shashma and came to the China Capt.
Cooke and the chirurgion, with certen peeces stuff wasgeven them for presentes; but after, they better bethought them selves and retorned all.
But I forgot to note dowing (sic) the presentgeven by the Duch, viz.
Here is reportes geven out that the Emperour doth determen to put Massamone Dono and the Kyng of Faccata to death, with an other tono or kyng.
I also tould hym I marveled that the Firando bongews the other day did take the ores out of the boates which carid us abord the Holland shipps, with such peeces of stuffes as were geven our folkes to make them aparell.
And our hostis and her daughter had geven them, viz.
Ther was a present geven to Torasemon Dono, a principall man in this place, which never had any thinggeven unto hym since our arivall in Japon, which our frends tould us of.
Sugen Dono of Crates sent to borrow a peare of bubes, he haveing invited the King of Firando to dyner, in respect he had geven or augmented his yearly stipend from 500 gocos per anno.
I sent a letter to Mr. Nealson, per Jacob Swager, for the bathes of Ishew, he goeing to buy cattell of Bungo Samme, the king having geven them an iland to feed them on.
Soe that prive enquirie was mad in all howses in Firando what strangers were lodged in eache howse, and true notis thereof geven to the justice.
Geven under oure signet at Farneham the 20 day of Juyn.
Abraham byeth that which might have ben gevenhim for nought/ to cutte of occasions.
And Sara my masters wyfe bare him a sonne/ wh[~e] she was old: and vnto him hath he geven all that he hath.
And Abram sayd: se/ to me hast thou geven no seed: lo/ a lad borne in my housse shal be myne heyre.
Passe out this weke/ & tha shall this also be geven the for y^e seruyce which thou shalt serue me yet .
Adam also laye with hys wyfe yet agayne/ and she bare a sonne ad called hys name Seth For god (sayd she) hath geven me a nother sonne For Abell whom Cain slewe.
Dame Chat, on the other syde, if she be far behynde 5 I am right far deceived; she is geven to it of kynde.
Rewards to be geven to strangers, as Players, Mynstralls, or any other, &c.
Madame, sith it is your desyre, 125 Your askyng graunted shal be; But I had lever have geven you Good market townes thre.
Geven to churches and in almes by Gresham, toward Bromholm, v.
Geven to Martyn Savage and Denschers awaytyng upon my master at London be vii.
Geven at Cristemasse next after the said yereday, to eche of the iiii.
A some of money geven for the meytenaunce of schole Mr there.
Item, geven to George Mountejoye drawing my Layde's Grace to his Valentine, xl{s}.
Item, geven to Heywood playeng an enterlude with his children before my Lady's Grace, xl{s}.
The Pope shoulde rather have sent into the West Indies store of godly pastors of his owne coste freely, then to have geven them and their gooddes wrongfully to be eaten upp and devoured of such insatiable and gredy wolves.
And this was the reporte that was geven to this mightie Emperour, whereby the towne of Andwerpe and the Netherlandes were saved from the Inquisition.
Hath not he these many yeres geven large pensions to nombers of English unnaturall rebelles?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "geven" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
