Ungifted

(ppl.) a. [UN-¹ 8, 9.]

  1.  Having no spiritual or intellectual gifts.

1637.  Ld. Wariston, Diary (S.H.S.), 276. Thou knouest thy servant,… hou ungifted, unfit, unready.

1655.  trans. Sorel’s Com. Hist. Francion, X. 16. We ought not to believe such an ungifted Prophet as he is.

1712.  Arbuthnot, Hist. John Bull, II. i. 7. A hot-headed, ungifted, unedifying Preacher.

1850.  Robertson, Serm., Ser. III. iii. Introd. (1857), 33. The Eternal Word spoke … to those who were uninspired and ungifted.

1891.  Farrar, Darkn. & Dawn, xvi. While he was still young and beautiful, and not ungifted.

  b.  Not gifted with something.

1831.  Palmerston, in Francis, Opinions & Policy (1852), 176. The conduct of a child ungifted with reason.

1861.  Beresf. Hope, Eng. Cathedr. 19th C., ii. 41. The man ungifted with architectural tact.

  2.  Having received no gifts; giftless.

a. 1631.  Donne, Lett. (1639), A 4 b. Pure Virtue; an ungifted Deity … without Oblation, Altar, or Temple.

1791.  Cowper, Odyss., XV. 258. He … will himself enforce Thy longer stay, That thou may’st not depart Ungifted.

1822.  Milman, Mart. Antioch, 19. The sad priests of all our Gods do sit Round their cold altars and ungifted shrines.

1887.  Bowen, Æneid, V. 304. This festival day None of the number around me shall go ungifted away.

  Hence Ungiftedness.

1646.  Mayne, Serm. agst. False Proph., 35. The ungiftednes of the persons, who have drawn this reproofe upon us.