sayd

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archaic, dialectal/seɪd/

adjective

said, mentioned earlier

UncommonScrabble 8

Meanings

verb

alternative say'd

  1. obsoleteparticiplepastsimple past and past participle of say

    1499, :John Skelton — The Bowge of Corte http://www.luminarium.org/editions/bowge.htm Remembrest thou what thou sayd yesternyght? Wylt thou abyde by the wordes agayne?

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    What thou hast sayd to me. Ham. I must to England, you knowe that

    c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals)
adjectivesayd (not comparable)

alternative say'd

  1. not comparableobsoletesaid, mentioned earlier

    The most excellent historie of the Merchant of Venice, with the extreme crueltie of Shylocke, the Jewe, towards the sayd merchant, in cutting a just pound of his flesh, and obtaining of Portia by the choyse of three caskets...

    A history of the cries of London, Ancient and modern (1884)

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