The Collaborative International Dictionary
Thanksgive \Thanks"give\, v. t.
To give or dedicate in token of thanks. [Obs. or R.]
--Mede.
Wiktionary
vb. (context obsolete rare English) To give or dedicate in token of thanks.
Usage examples of "thanksgive".
Pray what would Thanksgiving amount to, they inquired, with no pumpkin pies, no baked beans, no molasses cake, no proper sweetening for the rum so freely used in those days?
I will even ask the mother to make for me a rare salmagundi which we lads, who were so rated by the Heer Governor, will ourselves give to him as our Thanksgiving offering, for the Heer Governor, so folk do say, doth rarely like the salmagundi.
England home three days before Thanksgiving, had whispered in her ear.
Then the faces vanished from the two little windows, and Submit and Sarah went down to their Thanksgiving dinners.
Esteem Elliott was even more troubled than the rest of Colchester, for was not her buxom daughter, and only child, Prudence Ann, to be married on Thanksgiving Day to the son of a great magnate in the neighbouring town of Hebron?
Colchester molasses famine, and the consequent postponement of their Thanksgiving, naturally spread throughout all the surrounding towns.
Since that time, almost without interruption, Thanksgiving has been kept by the people of New England as the great family festival of the year.
Fisherman Jones of much use, but it was he who caught Miltiades and made the Thanksgiving dinner possible.
To be exhorted and told of his shortcomings, and then furnished with a turkey at Thanksgiving, was a yearly part of his family program.
Bill, whom the Cambridge college authorities released, as they did all the other youngsters of the land, for Thanksgiving Day, made a breezy stir among them all, especially with the young cousins of the feminine gender.
But on Thanksgiving Day, at least, every year this marvel was effected in our best room.
Heer Governor Stuyvesant for a day of thanksgiving was made known, in this year of mercies, 1659, all the townfolk of New Amsterdam made ready to keep it.
November and her daughter Thanksgiving, whose birthday it was, they filed into the spacious dining-room, where stood the long table groaning beneath its weight of good things, while four servants ran continually in and out bringing more substantials and delicacies to grace the board and please the appetite.
Other boys will like to read how good luck began to come his way on a certain memorable Thanksgiving Day.
After school was over, they ran home to their mother, and asked her when Thanksgiving Day would be.