Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Satisfied; pleased; repaid.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Paid; pleased.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective obsolete
paid ;pleased
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Examples
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Then spake Atli the king, “A fair host and a great have we, and mighty champions withal, and yet have many of us fallen, and but evil am I apaid in that nineteen of my champions are slain, and but left six alive.”
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I agree that using a free template or apaid one (under $100) is a great way to go.
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I saw Bush come on I was soooooo stupit to think he was going to address the plight of the KIDNAPPED AMERICAN and his NEW Zealand camer man, BUT NOOOOOOOOOOOO he had apaid stooge on to tell AMERICA how luckt we was to have Bush as PREZ during KATRINA WTF?
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Don Quixote answered, with a great loftiness and gravity: Truly, fair ladies, I am well apaid to grant you your request, but it must be with this agreement and condition, that this knight shall promise me to go to Toboso, and present himself, in my name, to the peerless Lady Dulcinea, to the end she may dispose of him as she pleaseth.
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Truly, I did not think upon it, good master licentiate, answered Don Quixote; yet, I presume, my lady the princess will be well apaid, for my sake, to command her squire to lend you the use of his saddle, and to get up himself on the crupper, if so it be that the beast will bear double.
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Presently the king will command all those that are present to prove it, which they do, but none of them can finish it but only the new-come knight, to the great proof of his fame; whereat the princess will remain very glad, and will be very joyful, and well apaid, because she hath settled her thoughts in so high a place.
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Also the hound is envious, and gathereth herbs privily, and is right sorry if any man know the virtue of those herbs, as is also evil apaid if any strange hounds and unknown come into the place where he dwelleth; and dreadeth lest he should fare the worse for the other hound's presence, and fighteth with him therefore.
Mediaeval Lore from Bartholomew Anglicus Robert Steele 1902
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Therefore thou shouldest be well apaid, [131] wretch, though thou suffer all the pains and darkness of thy soul all the days of thy life.
The Cell of Self-Knowledge : seven early English mystical treatises printed by Henry Pepwell in 1521 Henry Pepwell 1902
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Wherefore he held him evil apaid, and would not release her obedience till that she was despoiled to her smock, with some of her chamberers which were culpable, and that he had strongly beaten them.
The Golden Legend, vol. 6 1230-1298 1900
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When her mother saw the chrisms and her linen cloth thus employed, she was much wroth and evil apaid, and fette
The Golden Legend, vol. 7 1230-1298 1900
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