aby
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbaɪ/
rhymes: -aɪ
Forms: form: abought
form: abought
form: abye
form: abuy
form: abie
Etymology: From Middle English abyen, abien, abiggen, from Old English ābyċġan (“to buy; pay for; buy off; requite; recompense; redeem; perform; execute”), from Proto-Germanic *uzbugjaną, equivalent to a- + buy. Cognate with Gothic 𐌿𐍃𐌱𐌿𐌲𐌾𐌰𐌽 (usbugjan). Not related to abide.
Senses: examples: text: Foole-hardy Knight, full soone thou shalt aby / This fond reproach, thy body will I hang, [Hee takes down / his pole.] / And loe vpon that string thy teeth shall hang: Prepare thy selfe, for dead soone shalt thou bee
ref: 1607 (first performance), [Francis Beaumont], The Knight of the Burning Pestle, London: […] [Nicholas Okes] for Walter Burre, […], published 1613, →OCLC, Act III, signature G, recto:
synonyms: make up
glosses: To pay the penalty for (something); to atone for, to make amends.
examples: text: Who dyes the vtmoſt dolor doth abye, / But who that liues, is lefte to waile his loſſe: / So life is loſſe, and death felicity.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 38, page 455:
text: We doubt thee not; / Thy tale seems true, nor dost thou glorify / Thyself herein—certes thou wouldst abye / A heavy fate if thou shouldst lie herein— […]
ref: 1870, William Morris, “February: Bellerophon in Lycia”, in The Earthly Paradise: A Poem, part IV, London: F[rederick] S[tartridge] Ellis, […], →OCLC, page 339:
synonyms: sustain
glosses: To pay (something) as a penalty, to atone for; to suffer (something).
examples: text: The muckle black deil was father to the Frasers, a'body kens that; and as for the Gregara, I never could abye the reek of them since I could stotter on two feet.
ref: 1892, Robert Louis Stevenson, “The Wood by Silvermills”, in Catriona, London; Edinburgh: Thomas Nelson & Sons, →OCLC, page 131:
synonyms: word: brook
word: go on
word: hold on
word: put up with
word: abide
word: aby
word: astand
word: endure
word: go on
word: lie
word: prevail
word: hold on
word: last
word: live
word: persist
word: remain
word: stick
word: stick it out
word: stick out
word: abear
word: abide
word: aby
word: accept
word: allow
word: bear
word: bide
word: brook
word: dree
word: endure
word: forbear
word: go along with
word: live with
word: pass
word: pocket
word: pouch
word: put up with
word: stand
word: stick
word: stomach
word: suffer
word: swallow
word: take
word: take sitting down
word: thole
word: tolerate
word: undergang
word: undergo
qualifier: obsolete except Scotland
glosses: To endure or tolerate (something); to experience.
synonyms: word: procure
word: purchase
word: aby
word: buy
word: cheap
word: procure
word: purchase
word: snap up
glosses: To pay for (something); to buy.
synonyms: expiate
propitiate
glosses: To pay the penalty; to atone.
examples: text: So long as breath, and hable puiſſaunce / Did natiue corage vnto him ſupply, / His pace he freſhly forward did aduaunce, / And carried her beyond all ieopardy, / But nought that wanteth reſt, can long aby.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 3, pages 494–495:
glosses: To endure; to remain.