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English
Etymology
From Middle English yifture, ȝefture. Equivalent to gift + -ure.
Noun
gifture (plural giftures)
- (obsolete) Gift; giving.
1583, Phillip Stubbes, The Second Part of the Anatomie of Abuſes, London: R. W. for William Wright, page 218 (unnumbered):Secondly let them note that they require them as due vnto them by the donation and gifture of men, and not lure diuino, and therefoꝛe being giuen them foꝛ the cauſes afoꝛeſaid by chꝛiſtian kings and pꝛinces, they may in that reſpect hold them ſtill without any offence to the diuine goodneſſe, oꝛ his faithfull ſpouſe vpon the earth.
1610, Iohn Dod, Robert Cleaver, A Plaine and Familiar Exposition: , London: Roger Iackſon, pages 61-62:He Prooueth it from the efficient, that the Lord doth beſtowe her,and that in manner differing from his ordinarie and common giftures.