ppl. a. [UN-1 8 b. Cf. ON. and Icel. ú-, ógefinn (MSw. ogivin), MDu. ongegeven, MHG. ungegeben.]
† 1. Not given in marriage. Obs.
c. 1330. R. Brunne, Chron. Wace (Rolls), 6545. Gentil damysels vngyuen, Þat able to mennes companye were þryuen.
2. Not given or bestowed as a gift; not imparted.
1511. Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scot., IV. 253. To hald in ungewin the Kingis goune … quhilk the King ordanit to be gewin.
1542. Udall, Erasm. Apoph., 230 b. Fortune leaft nothyng vngeuen to hym.
a. 1586. Sidney, Arcadia, III. viii. Philanax himselfe could haue wished the blow vngiuen, when he saw him fal.
1600. Sir R. Cecil, Lett. (Camden), 62. I beleeve that office wilbe for a while vngeuen.
1662. H. Hibbert, Body Divinity, I. 172. Sometimes men take offence ungiven.
1713. Mrs. Centlivre, Wonder, II. i. What proof remains ungiven of his love?
1768–74. Tucker, Lt. Nat. (1834), I. 63. Neither let him harbour such an overweening conceit of his own ungiven strength.
1818. Colebrooke, Obligations, 48. By the Hindu law, whatever has been given by mistake, must be considered as ungiven.
3. a. Not given over; unsurrendered.
a. 1670. Spalding, Troub. Chas. I. (1850), I. 272. It [sc. the castle] wes not long on-givin over.
b. Unaddicted to something.
1876. Whitby Gloss., 206.
1897. Westm. Gaz., 2 March, 2/1. Silent of speech, morose of nature, not ungiven to beer.
