[f. prec.] intr. (or with it): To say ‘yea’; to reply affirmatively: opp. to NAY v. 2 b.
1598. Bp. Hall, Sat., VI. i. 82. No more smell-feast Vitellio … loues him in his maw, loaths in his heart, Yet soothes, and yeas, and Nayes on eyther part.
1657. J. Goodwin, Triers Tried, 6. Such as will swallow their camels, and yea it, and nay it, with them from the one end of their faith unto the other.
1679. Establ. Test, 23. A … Jesuit … can thou and thee, and yea and nay, as well as the best of them [sc. Quakers].
