( usually followed by ` to') naturally disposed toward; " he is apt to ignore matters he considers unimportant"; " I am not minded to answer any questions"

specified in advance; " a given number"; " we will meet at a given time and location"

having possession delivered or transferred without compensation

an assumption that is taken for granted

acknowledged as a supposition; " given the engine's condition, it is a wonder that it started"

of Give

p. p. & amp; a. from Give, v.

Granted; assumed; supposed to be known; set forth as a known quantity, relation, or premise.

Stated; fixed; as, in a given time.

p. p. & a. from Give, v.

Disposed; inclined; - used with an adv.; as, virtuously given.

Inclined; addicted; usually with to; as, given to lying; stated; prearranged.

Specified.

Habitually inclined.

Giver.

Bestowed; conferred; addicted.

And there they were, being given an automobile ride, and Mr. Reinberg didn't know a thing about it. – Bunny Brown and his Sister Sue by Laura Lee Hope

I'd have given you my word. – A Man to His Mate by J. Allan Dunn

I'd given away my dinner to have been there! – Our Young Folks at Home and Abroad by Various

And he has never given us anything but words. – Old Ebenezer by Opie Read

See it given to his own hand. – The Last Days of Pompeii by Edward George Bulwer-Lytton

As I live, I would have given my own right hand that this had not happened! – Hypatia or, New Foes with an Old Face by Charles Kingsley

I shall write a letter which must be given to him when I am gone. – A Son of the Immortals by Louis Tracy

He was given time for that." – The Quality of Mercy by W. D. Howells

Yet he would have given me my life! – The White Shield by Bertram Mitford

Somebody's given you one. – The Adventures of Joel Pepper by Margaret Sidney

Why were they given – Vittoria, v8 by George Meredith

I had given him up. – The Covered Wagon by Emerson Hough

However, I made him take it, and away he went, and I glad to have given him so much cause to speake well of me. – Diary of Samuel Pepys, Complete Transcribed From The Shorthand Manuscript In The Pepysian Library Magdalene College Cambridge By The Rev. Mynors Bright by Samuel Pepys Commentator: Lord Braybrooke

I couldn't have married you then- given myself up to you. – Tom Brown at Oxford by Thomas Hughes

What would she not have given for the right to run away and read it at once? – The Clique of Gold by Emile Gaboriau

No, if I didn't know you so well I believe I should have given in long ago. – The Complete PG Edition of The Works of Winston Churchill by Winston Churchill

She thought that plan must be given up. – Not Like Other Girls by Rosa N. Carey

And must the whole thing be given up? – Round the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne

I wished to give her something, poor soul; and I had given Austin all my money. – The Lovels of Arden by M. E. Braddon

But they shall be given every chance. – The Millionaire Baby by Anna Katharine Green