apair
Middle English
Verb
apair
- To impair or become impaired; to injure.
- 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Myllers Prologue”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC:
- It is a sinne and eek a greet folye
To apairen any man or him defame- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
References
- “apair”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.