aby

American  

[uh-bahy] / əˈbaɪ /

Or abye

verb (used with object)

• abought
  past,  past participle

1. Archaic. to pay the penalty of.

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verb (used without object)

Obsolete.

• abought
  past,  past participle

1. to endure; continue.

2. to undergo suffering as a penalty.

aby British  

/ əˈbaɪ /

verb

1. archaic (tr) to pay the penalty for; redeem

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Other Word Forms

Inflected Forms

Participles

• abought
  past

Conjugated Forms

Present

• aby
  simple

Past

• abought
  simple

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Etymology

Origin of aby

before 1100; Middle English abyen, Old English ābycgan. See a- ³, buy

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Example Sentences

See Examples For:

aby abought

While Biden was in a meeting with the emperor of Japan, his Twitter account was posting details about administration efforts to address the b aby formula shortage.

From Seattle Times ● May 24, 2022

"Neither you nor none other may brag that you have heart to attack me, but you shall aby it right dear!"

From The High History of the Holy Graal by Sebastian Evans

Before riding out of the gates, he turned round, and clenching his fist, glanced malignantly at Eustace, and muttered, "You shall aby it."

From The Lances of Lynwood by Charlotte Mary Yonge

But nought that wanteth rest can long aby.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Noah Webster

All the days of thy life pass by and thou art content thus to aby.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 06 by Sir Richard Francis Burton

And the Red Knight was a wily knight of war, and his wily fighting taught Sir Beaumains to be wise; but he abought it full sore or he did espy his fighting.

From Le Mort d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Sir Thomas Malory

The kyng enprysoned his sone Edward.And in this yere the quene Margarete com into Engelond; and the citeizens of London reden ageine here in good aray, abought cc persones atte the leeste.

From A Chronicle of London from 1089 to 1483 Written in the Fifteenth Century, and for the First Time Printed from MSS. in the British Museum by Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas

Thus we have a lost, agone, abought, &c., for lost, gone, bought, &c.,

From The Dialect of the West of England; Particularly Somersetshire by James Jennings

I must troble you once more abought my cosen Tenoson.

From Selected English Letters (XV - XIX Centuries) by H. Wragg

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