paine

plural paines

1. obsoleteObsolete spelling of pain.

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   Or plaine and perfite way of teachyng children, to vnderstand, write, and speake, the Latin tong, but specially purposed for the priuate brynging vp of youth in Ientlemen and Noble mens houses, and commodious also for all such, as haue forgot the Latin tonge, and would, by themselues, without a Scholemaster, in short tyme, and with small paines, recouer a sufficient habilitie, to vnderstand, write, and speake Latin.

   1570, Roger Ascham, The Scholemaster

alternative Pain · alternative Payne

1. An English surname, of Norman derivation, meaning someone who lived outside of a city (see Latin pagus).

   Albert Bigelow Paine, his biographer to be and literary executor, who has been constantly with him, said that for the last year at least Mr. Clemens had been weary of life. When Richard Watson Gilder died, he said: "How fortunate he is. No good fortune of that kind ever comes to me."

   1910 April 22, “Mark Twain is Dead at 74”, in The New York Times