English Dictionary

aby

/əˈbaɪ/

verb

(archaic) To pay the penalty for (something); to atone for, to make amends. / (archaic, figuratively) To pay (something) as a penalty; to suffer (something).

He abyed for his sins.

意味（1）

(archaic) To pay the penalty for (something); to atone for, to make amends.

Diſparage not the faith thou doſt not know, / Leſt to thy perill thou abide it deare.]

意味（2）

(archaic, figuratively) To pay (something) as a penalty; to suffer (something).

Who dyes the vtmoſt dolor doth abye, / But who that liues, is lefte to waile his loſſe: / So life is loſſe, and death felicity.

意味（3）

(obsolete except Scotland) To endure or tolerate (something); to experience.

The muckle black deil was father to the Frasers, a'body kens that; and as for the Gregara, I never could abye the reek of them since I could stotter on two feet.

意味（4）

(obsolete) To pay for (something); to buy.

意味（5）

To pay the penalty; to atone.

意味（6）

To endure; to remain.

So long as breath, and hable puiſſaunce / Did natiue corage vnto him ſupply, / His pace he freſhly forward did aduaunce, / And carried her beyond all ieopardy, / But nought that wanteth reſt, can long aby.