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allayed, ppl. a.|əˈleɪd|
Also 5–6 alayed.
[f. allay v.1 and v.2 + -ed.]
The senses are combined as in the vbs.
†1. Mixed with an inferior metal, debased; = alloyed. Obs.
c1400Epiph. (Turnb. 1843) 121 For gold of trowth ys falsly now alayed. 1671J. Flavel Fount Life ii. 4 The best creature-delights one in another are mixed, debased and allayed. 1738Warburton Div. Legat. I. 453 The Good..was allayed with Evil.
2. Mingled with water, etc.; tempered, qualified.
1528Paynell Salernes Regim. L ij b, The wyne..shulde be alayde with moche water. 1552Huloet, Alayde wyne, Aquaticum Vinum. 1684tr. Bonet's Merc. Compit. iii. 108 Acids allayed with a lixivious Salt. a1704T. Brown Quakers Grace Wks. 1730 I. 107 Thy judgements are tart unless allay'd with the sugar of thy mercy.
3. gen. Mixed, mingled, modified.
1683Burnet tr. More's Utopia 125 An entire healthiness..not allayed with any Disease. 1819R. Chapman James V, 131 In human life our gladness is still allayed with sorrow. 1857Emerson Poems 146 Of the same stuff, and so allayed, As that whereof the sun is made.
4. [f. allay v.1, or from lay with a- prefix ? 6, 10, or 11.] Laid, set (cf. inlaid).
1509Barclay Ship of Fooles (1570) 245 Resplendaunt is all thy apparayle Alayed gayly with pearles. Ibid. (1874) II. 289 My stremynge standardes alayd with sundry hewe. |