payed

English

Alternative forms

• paid

Verb

payed

1. (archaic) simple past tense and past participle of pay
   • 1616 — William Shakespeare, Last will and testament

     ...and the use and proffitt therof cominge shalbe payed to my saied Sister Jone...

   • 1836 — Frederick Marryat, Mr. Midshipman Easy, 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.