Fromen- +gyve.
engyve (third-person singular simple presentengyves,present participleengyving,simple past and past participleengyved)
- (obsolete, rare) To put ingyves orshackles.
1603,Michel de Montaigne, chapter 9, inJohn Florio, transl.,The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes forEdward Blount […],→OCLC:We have enough to doe, to endure the burthen of them, and are soengived and shackled in them, as if we were to fight but with the shocke or brunt of our armes: And as if we were as much bound to defend them, as they to shield us.
1887,The Homiletic Review, volume XIV:It is now, to the believer, not a tyrant to be dreaded, but a minister to perform a needed office; not a jailer toengyve us with the fetters of bondage, but a servant to assist us in unrobing for our entrance into the banqueting house […].
