sayd
English
Verb
sayd
- (obsolete) simple past tense and past participle of say
- Remembrest thou what thou sayd yesternyght? Wylt thou abyde by the wordes agayne? — :John Skelton — The Bowge of Corte (1499)
- What thou hast sayd to me. Ham. I must to England, you knowe that — Shakespeare, Hamlet (c. 1600)
Adjective
sayd (not comparable)
- (obsolete) said, mentioned earlier
- The most excellent historie of the Merchant of Venice, with the extreme crueltie of Shylocke, the Jewe, towards the sayd merchant, in cutting a just pound of his flesh, and obtaining of Portia by the choyse of three caskets... — A history of the cries of London, Ancient and modern (1884)
Usage notes
In some dialects, said is pronounced sayd and is sometimes spelled that way in dialects, in addition to its use in archaic contexts.
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