a. Obs. Forms: 4 ay-, ai-lastand(e, ai-, ay lasting, 7 aye-lasting. [See AY adv. 5.] Everlasting. Hence Aylastingly adv.

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c. 1340.  Hampole, Prose Tr. (1866), 1. Ay-lastande saluacyone es hopede.

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c. 1340.  Alex. & Dind., 70. Ailastinge lif.

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c. 1400.  Apol. Loll., 55. Ay lasting deþ.

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1603.  Florio, Montaigne, III. vi. (1632), 506. Aye-lasting and commendable memory.

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c. 1400.  Apol. Loll., 7. Ordeyning aylastingly þe contrary.

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