accoy
verb/əˈkɔɪ/
Etymology From Middle French acoyer, from coy (“quiet, calm”). By surface analysis, a- + coy.
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Obsolete To soothe, to calm; to assuage, to subdue.
- Of faire Pæana I received was, And oft imbrast, as if that I were hee, And with kind words accoyd, vowing great love to mee.1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.8: