▪ I. said, ppl. a.
(sɛd)
Forms: see the vb.
[Pa. pple. of say v.]
1. Named or mentioned before. (Also abovesaid, aforesaid qq. v.)
| a 1300 Cursor M. 14978 (Cott.) Son þar went disciplis tua Vnto þe said [Gött. þis said] castel. c 1375 Sc. Leg. Saints xi. (Symon & Judas) 16 Þe sad king agabarus [L. prædictus rex Abgarus]. 1435 Contract Fotheringhay Ch. (1841) 20 At my seide Lord's cost. 1457–8 Anc. Cal. Rec. Dublin (1889) 297 Aftyr the sayd terme to ber the saydyn v. s. 1486 Bk. St. Albans b iij b, Lay thessaid hede and the necke ther⁓uppon. 1548–9 Bk. Com. Prayer, Collect St. Matthew (Mar.) To folowe thy sayed sonne Jesus Christ. 1568 Grafton Chron. II. 251 The King of England gaue the sayde Castell to the sayde Erle. 1716 Lond. Gaz. No. 5450/4 The Administratrixes of the said Wilson, do hereby give Notices. 1868 T. H. Key Philol. Ess. 282 The said chapter begins with an admirable extract from a work of Dugald Stewart's. 1885 Law Times Rep. LIII. 51/2 The said chimney belonged to the said brewery. |
| absol. 1648 Gage West. Ind. 186 Some English or Holland ships was abroad at sea..and the said were sometimes lurking about the Islands of St. John. |
† b. With inflected pl. Obs.
Continued in Sc. until the 17th c.
| 1448 in Willis & Clark Cambridge (1886) II. 8 The Felowes of the seid college..and Thomas Sturgeon of the seides town and shire carpenter. 1527 Lanc. Wills (Chetham Soc.) I. 25 Tenants of the saidis landis. 1581 Hamilton Cert. Orth. & Cath. Conclus. Ded. 3 And yair ye saidis ministers and ve being assemblit. 1609 Skene Reg. Maj., Forme Proces 125 The officiar..may sell and assigne the saides landes. |
† 2. Spoken, uttered. In phr. (old) said saw.
| 1530, c 1570, 1828 [see old E. 1 c.]. a 1553 Udall Royster D. i. i. (Arb.) 11 Therefore an other sayd sawe doth men aduise, That they be together both mery and wise. 1581 J. Bell Haddon's Answ. Osor. 202 b, Accordyng to the old sayd saw Quite agaynst the heare. 1659 Howell (title) Proverbs, or Old Sayed Sawes & Adages. |
† 3. quasi-n. Something said or spoken. nonce-use.
| 1578 Florio 1st Fruites 18 b, So say I also. But from the said vnto the deed there is a great throw. |
▪ II. said
obs. f. sad, side.