appair
English
Etymology
From Old French empeirier, French empire. See impair.
Verb
appair (third-person singular simple present appairs, present participle appairing, simple past and past participle appaired)
- (intransitive, obsolete) To become impaired; to grow worse.
- 1510, Anonymous, The Summoning of Everyman, Everyman's Library (1909):
- I see the more that I them forbear
- The worse they be from year to year;
- All that liveth appaireth fast
- I see the more that I them forbear
- 1510, Anonymous, The Summoning of Everyman, Everyman's Library (1909):
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 appair in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
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