ALLAYED

Definition: ALLAYED

ALLAYED

Imperative & past participle

1. Of Allay

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Date "ALLAYED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Crosswords: ALLAYED

English words defined with "ALLAYED": quenched ♦ satisfied, slaked ♦ Unlaid. (references)

Specialty definitions using "ALLAYED": INAUSPICIOUSLY. (references)

Author	Quotation
Miguel De Cervantes	It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.
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Title	Author	Quote
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man	Joyce, James	This furious music allayed his dread and, leaning against the windowledge, he let his eyelids close again.
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Subject	Topic	Quote
Economic History	Turkey	With greater IPR enforcement, prior U.S. industry concerns should be allayed. (references)
	Australia	On the other hand, they have shown themselves to be wary of purchasing goods over the Internet, although as consumers' fears regarding security are allayed, both the B2C and B2B markets should realize their potential in the near future. (references)
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	INAUSPICIOUSLY, adv. In an unpromising manner, the auspices being unfavorable. Among the Romans it was customary before undertaking any important action or enterprise to obtain from the augurs, or state prophets, some hint of its probable outcome; and one of their favorite and most trustworthy modes of divination consisted in observing the flight of birds -- the omens thence derived being called auspices. Newspaper reporters and certain miscreant lexicographers have decided that the word -- always in the plural -- shall mean "patronage" or "management"; as, "The festivities were under the auspices of the Ancient and Honorable Order of Body-Snatchers"; or, "The hilarities were auspicated by the Knights of Hunger." A Roman slave appeared one day Before the Augur. "Tell me, pray, If --" here the Augur, smiling, made A checking gesture and displayed His open palm, which plainly itched, For visibly its surface twitched. A denarius (the Latin nickel) Successfully allayed the tickle, And then the slave proceeded: "Please Inform me whether Fate decrees Success or failure in what I To-night (if it be dark) shall try. Its nature? Never mind -- I think 'Tis writ on this" -- and with a wink Which darkened half the earth, he drew Another denarius to view, Its shining face attentive scanned, Then slipped it into the good man's hand, Who with great gravity said: "Wait While I retire to question Fate." That holy person then withdrew His scared clay and, passing through The temple's rearward gate, cried "Shoo!" Waving his robe of office. Straight Each sacred peacock and its mate (Maintained for Juno's favor) fled With clamor from the trees o'erhead, Where they were perching for the night. The temple's roof received their flight, For thither they would always go, When danger threatened them below. Back to the slave the Augur went: "My son, forecasting the event By flight of birds, I must confess The auspices deny success." That slave retired, a sadder man, Abandoning his secret plan -- Which was (as well the craft seer Had from the first divined) to clear The wall and fraudulently seize On Juno's poultry in the trees. G.J.
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Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
Martin van Buren	1837-1841	The jealousies which the smaller States might entertain of the power of the rest were allayed by a rule of representation confessedly unequal at the time, and designed forever to remain so.
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"ALLAYED" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 74.55% of the time. "ALLAYED" is used about 55 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (past participle)	74.55%	41	53,521
Lexical Verb (past tense)	25.45%	14	93,893
Total	100.00%	55	N/A

Expression using "ALLAYED": be allayed. Additional references.
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Language		Translations for "ALLAYED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		�"�'� (Allay, Allaying, Alleviate, Alleviated, Alleviating, detente, Eased, Easement, Easing, mitigate, mitigated, Mitigating, mitigation, moderation, Palliative). (various references)

German		gelindert (alleviated, mitigated, palliated), beschwichtigte (conciliated, pacified, placated). (various references)

Pig Latin		allayeday

Russian		ослаблять ослабленный (loosened, slackened). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Misspellings
	"ALLAYED" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: alaid, alaye, alayed, alcaydes, Aulaye, Pallayev, Talalayev, ulayed. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "ALLAYED" (pronounced ulā"d)
4	u l ā" d	delayed.
3	-l ā" d	blade, displayed, flayed, glade, Lade, laid, mislaid, overplayed, played, replayed, underplayed.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-d-e-l-l-y"
	-2 letters: allay, alley, dally, delay, delly, ladle, layed, leady.
	-3 letters: alae, ally, dale, deal, dell, lade, lady, lead, leal, yald, yeld, yell.
	-4 letters: aal, ala, ale, all, aye, dal, day, del, dey, dye, eld, ell, lad, lay, lea, led, ley, lye, yea.
	-5 letters: aa, ad, ae, al, ay, de, ed, el, la, ya, ye.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-d-e-l-l-y"
	+1 letter: welladay.
	+2 letters: alkylated, saleslady, welladays.
	+3 letters: dialyzable.
	+4 letters: adverbially, anecdotally, ballyragged, dialectally, displayable, edaphically, lallygagged.
	+5 letters: academically, accidentally, adjectivally, calculatedly, decasyllabic, decasyllable, demoniacally, hebdomadally, heraldically, ideationally, octahedrally, pedantically, sacerdotally, syllabicated, wallydraigle.
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