apay
verbUK /əˈpeɪ/
Etymology From Middle English apaien, from Old French apaiier (“to appease”). See Latin pax (“peace”).
1
Archaic To satisfy, please.
- It was a strange conceit, with our owne affliction to goe about to please and appay divine goodnesse.1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
2
Obsolete To repay.