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.
| 1297 R. Glouc. 117 Mid al he was wel a payed. c 1374 Chaucer Boeth. ii. v. 47 With ful lytel þing nature halt hire appaied. c 1386 ― Friar's Prol. 18, I pray that noon of yow be evel apayd [v.r. a-paide, apeide, ypayd, payd]. a 1450 Knt. de la Tour (1868) 35 Her husbonde was not best apaied with her for her outegoinge. 1565 Golding Ovid's Met. iv. (1593) 86 The sunne full ill appaid Did with his beames disperse the sand. 1675 T. 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. 1690 W. Walker Idiom. Anglo-Lat. 28 Sufficiently apaid, satisfactum. 1867 C. Cayley transl. Lucretius in Fortn. Rev. Nov. 590 Well-appay'd [L. placatum] welkin brightens with an even effulgence. |
† 2. Repaid, requited, rewarded. Obs.
| 1598 Yong Diana, For euery pleasure then, with seuen folde paine I am now apaide. 1633 P. Fletcher Pisc. Eclogs. iii. xvii, My sick love (ah love full ill apay'd). 1748 Thomson Cast. Indol. i. lxvi, Thy toils but ill apaid. |