ppl. a.; also 5–6 alayed. [f. ALLAY v.1 and v.2 + -ED.] The senses are combined as in the vbs.

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  † 1.  Mixed with an inferior metal, debased; = ALLOYED. Obs.

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c. 1400.  Epiph. (Turnb., 1843), 121. For gold of trowth ys falsly now alayed.

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1671.  Flavel, Fount. Life, ii. 4. The best creature-delights one in another are mixed, debased and allayed.

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1738.  Warburton, Div. Legat., I. 453. The Good … was allayed with Evil.

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  2.  Mingled with water, etc.; tempered, qualified.

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1528.  Paynell, Salernes Regim., L ij b. The wyne … shulde be alayde with moche water.

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1552.  Huloet, Alayde wyne, Aquaticum Vinum.

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1684.  trans. Bonet’s Merc. Compit., III. 108. Acids allayed with a lixivious Salt.

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a. 1704.  T. Brown, Quakers Grace, Wks. 1730, I. 107. Thy judgements are tart unless allay’d with the sugar of thy mercy.

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  3.  gen. Mixed, mingled, modified.

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1683.  Burnet, trans. More’s Utopia, 125. An entire healthiness … not allayed with any Disease.

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1819.  R. Chapman, James V., 131. In human life our gladness is still allayed with sorrow.

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1857.  Emerson, Poems, 146. Of the same stuff, and so allayed, As that whereof the sun is made.

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  4.  [f. ALLAY v.1, or from LAY with A- pref. ? 6, 10, or 11.] Laid, set (cf. inlaid).

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1509.  Barclay, Ship of Fooles (1570), 245. Resplendaunt is all thy apparayle Alayed gayly with pearles. Ibid. (1874), II. 289. My stremynge standardes alayd with sundry hewe.

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