undersay

English

Etymology

under- +‎ say

Verb

undersay (third-person singular simple present undersays, present participle undersaying, simple past and past participle undersaid)

  1. (obsolete) To say by way of derogation or contradiction.
    • Edmund Spenser
      They say, they con to heaven the highway; But I dare undersay, They never set foot on that same trade, But balke their right way, and strain abroad.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for undersay in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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