Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To thrust gifts upon.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb transitive To entrust; endow.
  • verb transitive To give a gift or gifts to; bestow or present with gifts.
  • verb transitive To give as a gift.

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From Middle English bigiften ("to entrust"), equivalent to be- +‎ gift. Cognate with Dutch begiften ("to endow"), German begaben ("to endow"), Swedish begåva ("to endow, dower").

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Examples

  • This bailout is a last minute heist by the Bush whitehouse to begift their buddies.

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  • They sometimes meet heroes, as they met Helgi in the Eddic Lay (Helgi and Sigrun Lay), and help or begift them; they prepare the magic broth for Balder, are charmed with Hother's lute-playing, and bestow on him a belt of victory and a girdle of splendour, and prophesy things to come.

    The Danish History, Books I-IX Grammaticus Saxo

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