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Payed vs Pated - What's the difference?

payed | pated |

As a verb payed

is (archaic) (from old french paier) (pay).

As an adjective pated is

having a pate; -- used only in composition; as, long-pated; shallow-pated, twitterpated.

payed

English

Alternative forms

* paid

Verb

(head)
  • (archaic) (from Old French paier) (pay)
  • * 1616 —
  • *:...and the use and proffitt therof cominge shalbe payed to my saied Sister Jone...
  • * 1836 — , ch 25
    • 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.
  • (from Old French peier) (pay)

    • pated

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Having a pate; -- used only in composition; as, long-pated; shallow-pated, twitterpated.

    • Anagrams

    *adept *taped