Payed vs Nayed - What's the difference?
payed | nayed |
(archaic) (from Old French paier) (pay)
* 1616 —
*:...and the use and proffitt therof cominge shalbe payed to my saied Sister Jone...
* 1836 — , ch 25
(from Old French peier) (pay)
(nay)
(archaic) no
or even, or more like, or should I say. Introduces a stronger and more appropriate expression than the preceding one.
* His face was dirty, nay filthy.
* 1663 ,
* 1748 . David Hume. Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral. London: Oxford University Press, 1973. § 18.
A vote against.
A person who voted against.
nary
As verbs the difference between payed and nayed
is that payed is (archaic) (from old french paier) (pay) while nayed is (nay).payed
English
Alternative forms
* paidVerb
(head)- It was but just in time, for, as the frigate flew round, describing a circle, as she payed off before the wind, they could perceive the breakers lashing the precipitous coast, not two cables' length from them.
nayed
English
Verb
(head)nay
English
Adverb
(-)Derived terms
* nay-say * naysayerConjunction
(English Conjunctions)- [...] And proved not only horse, but cows, / Nay pigs, were of the elder house: / For beasts, when man was but a piece / Of earth himself, did th' earth possess.
- And even in our wildest and most wandering reveries, nay in our very dreams, we shall find, if we reflect, that the imagination ran not altogether at adventures,
Noun
(en noun)- I vote nay , even though the motion is popular, because I would rather be right than popular.
- The vote is 4 in favor and 20 opposed, the nays have it.