unpay
English
Etymology
From Middle English unpayen, unpaien, equivalent to un- + pay.
Verb
unpay (third-person singular simple present unpays, present participle unpaying, simple past and past participle unpaid)
- To undo, take back, or annul, as a payment.
- c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:
- Pay her the debt you owe her, and unpay the villany you have done her
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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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 unpay in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)
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