v. [UN-2 4 b.] trans. To free from gyves or fetters. Also fig.
1531. Elyot, Gov., II. vi. He … commaunded hym to be ungyued and sette at libertie.
1569. Newton, Cicero’s Olde Age, 4. I haue knowen a great maignie … who were well pleased to be ungiued, loosed, and deliuered out of the yoke of their sensuall lustes.
1610. Healey, St. Aug. Citie of God, 310. Our intellect being ungived from the body, if it want the light of God’s truth, it must needes lament and languish.
1831. Carlyle, Sart. Res., II. ix. My mind’s eyes were now unsealed, and its hands ungyved.
