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  † 1.  Highly pleased or satisfied. Const. of. (See PAID 1, PAY v.1 1.) Obs.

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c. 1400.  [see PAID 1].

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c. 1450.  Godstow Reg., 166. Iohn, bisshop of exetur, was plesid & well paide of þe gifte.

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c. 1460.  Towneley Myst., xii. 425. I hope they wyll nott be well payde when thay thare shepe lak.

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a. 1846.  in M. A. Richardson, Local Hist. Table-bk., Leg. III. 259. If he’s struck my daughter I shall make him a weel-paid wife.

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  2.  Liberally remunerated.

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1590.  Sir J. Smyth, Disc. Weapons, Ded. 4 b. Souldiours well payd, and chiefly being subiects to the Prince that they serue.

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1606.  Shaks., Ant. & Cl., III. i. 32. With his Banners, and his well paid ranks.

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a. 1693.  Urquhart’s Rabelais, III. xviii. 147. The well-payed Incomes of Regenting-Doctors.

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1726.  Learned Diss. Dumpling (ed. 4), 17. The Well-Fed, Well-Read, Well-Pay’d C—— J—— Esq.

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1832.  Ht. Martineau, Hill & Valley, iv. 63. It is the duty of well-paid labourers to become capitalists if they can.

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1845.  Syd. Smith, Ir. R. C. Ch., Wks. 1859, II. 334/1. A well-paid Protestant clergyman.

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