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apaid, ppl. a. arch.|əˈpeɪd|
Forms: 3–7 apayed, 4–7 apaied, apayd, 5 apayede, 5–6 apayde, 5–7 apaide, 5– apaid; also 4–7 appaied, appayed, 6 appayde, 6–7 appayd, appaid.
[f. apay v. + -ed. Only a poetic archaism since c1700.]
1. Satisfied, contented, pleased.
1297R. Glouc. 117 Mid al he was wel a payed. c1374Chaucer Boeth. ii. v. 47 With ful lytel þing nature halt hire appaied. c1386― Friar's Prol. 18, I pray that noon of yow be evel apayd [v.r. a-paide, apeide, ypayd, payd]. a1450Knt. de la Tour (1868) 35 Her husbonde was not best apaied with her for her outegoinge. 1565Golding Ovid's Met. iv. (1593) 86 The sunne full ill appaid Did with his beames disperse the sand. 1675T. Brooks Gold. Key Wks. 1867 V. 189 They call me a devil, but be it so, so long as Christ is magnified, I am well a-payed. 1690W. Walker Idiom. Anglo-Lat. 28 Sufficiently apaid, satisfactum. 1867C. Cayley transl. Lucretius in Fortn. Rev. Nov. 590 Well-appay'd [L. placatum] welkin brightens with an even effulgence.
†2. Repaid, requited, rewarded. Obs.
1598Yong Diana, For euery pleasure then, with seuen folde paine I am now apaide. 1633P. Fletcher Pisc. Eclogs. iii. xvii, My sick love (ah love full ill apay'd). 1748Thomson Cast. Indol. i. lxvi, Thy toils but ill apaid. |