occas. yoved, obs. pa. t. and pple. of GIVE.
c. 1300. Harrow. Hell (E.), 189. Y haue ȝouen my liif for þe.
13[?]. Northern Passion, 130/1255. Ageyn oure lawe he haþ ȝoue red.
1390. Gower, Conf., II. 192. Unto thidoles yove and granted.
1426. Lydg., De Guil. Pilgr., 24360. Whan Iuges, for offence Han yoved hir sentence.
c. 1460. Wisdom, 945, in Macro Plays, 66. My wyll was full yowe to syne.
1532. Cromwell, in Merriman, Life & Lett. (1902), I. 344. According to your high commawndment to me youyn yesterdaye.
1552. Huloet, Yoven or enclined to couetousenes or crueltye.
