Payed

Alternative forms

• paid

Verb

1. (archaic) from Old French paier

   payed

   (past of pay)
• 1616 — William Shakespeare, ...and the use and proffitt therof cominge shalbe payed to my saied Sister Jone...
• 1836 — Frederick Marryat, , ch 25It 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.
2. from Old French peier

   payed

   (past of pay)