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Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   To pay the penalty for (something)

   To pay the penalty for (something); to atone for, to make amends.

   • 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
2. 2

   To pay (something) as a penalty, to atone for

   To pay (something) as a penalty, to atone for; to suffer (something).

   • Who dyes the vtmoſt dolor doth abye, / But who that liues, is lefte to waile his loſſe: / So life is loſſe, and death felicity.
   • 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— […]
3. 3

   To endure or tolerate (something)

   To endure or tolerate (something); to experience.

   • 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.
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   1. 4

      To pay for (something)

      To pay for (something); to buy.

   2. 5

      To pay the penalty

      To pay the penalty; to atone.

   3. 6

      To endure

      To endure; to remain.

      • 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.
   4. 7

      A village in Aby with Greenfield parish, East Lindsey district, Lincolnshire, England (OS…

      A village in Aby with Greenfield parish, East Lindsey district, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref TL4178).

   5. 8

      A village in south-eastern Ivory Coast.

   6. 9

      The Abyssinian cat.

   7. 10

      Initialism of Archbishop of York.

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