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Originally Posted by speakingtohe
...I really hate it when people use the word gift as a verb.
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The OED tells me:
gift, v.
a. trans. To endow or furnish with gifts (see chiefly gift n.1 6); to endow, invest, or present with as a gift.
15.. Wife in Morel's Skin C j b, The friendes that were together met He [printed Be] gyfted them richely with right good speede.
1621 R. Sanderson 12 Serm. (1637) 396 If God have not gifted us for it, he hath not called us to it.
etc
So the OED thinks it has been in use as a verb since the 16th C.
(Sorry for being picky, I also hate the use of gift as a verb, and I had assumed it was a modern usage, so I looked it up)