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  • verb archaic Second-person singular simple present form of pay

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pay + -est

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Examples

  • I said, ‘I will sell if thou wilt buy;’ then he said, ‘I will buy it for thirty thousand dinars; take them and make the bargain;’ so I cried to the bystanders, ‘Bear witness against him,’ adding to him, ‘But on condition that thou acquaint me with the virtues and profit of this amulet for which thou payest all this money.’

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Shall free thee from the tribute which thou payest;

    The Tempest 2004

  • Thou payest debts, owing nothing; remittest debts, losing nothing.

    The Confessions 1999

  • Thou owest men nothing, yet payest out to them as if in debt to thy creature, and when thou dost cancel debts thou losest nothing thereby.

    Confessions and Enchiridion, newly translated and edited by Albert C. Outler 345-430 1955

  • If thou payest no attention to our accusation and the desire of the people, then are we free from guilt.

    King of the Jews A story of Christ's last days on Earth William T. Stead

  • Nay, when thy fleets have crossed overseas and lie at anchor, when now thou rearest altars and payest vows on the beach, veil thine hair with a purple garment for covering, that no hostile face at thy divine worship may meet thee amid the holy fires and make void the omens.

    The Aeneid of Virgil 70 BC-19 BC Virgil

  • Nor light the debt thou payest; 'tis Orpheus 'self,

    The Georgics 70 BC-19 BC Virgil

  • But since thou fearest, and payest too much regard to the multitude, I will liberate thee from this fear.

    The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I. 480? BC-406 BC Euripides

  • "Why," said the man of Athina, "shoes must be very dear in Jerusalem, when thou payest such a price but for repairing a string."

    Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala Various

  • Thou payest debts, owing nothing; remittest debts, losing nothing.

    The First Book 1909

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