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動詞

abuy (third-person singular simple present abuys, present participle abuying, simple past and past participle abought)

1. Alternative form of aby
   • 1607 [1516], Ludovico Ariosto, translated by Iohn Haringtõ [i.e. John Harington], Orlando Furioso, page 301, column 1:

     I am content to die, but ere I die yet, / She that did cauſe it, dearly ſhall abuy it.

   • 1651 January 7, S[amuel]. R[utherford]., “Epiſt. 60.”, in Joshua Redivivus, Or, Three Hundred and Fifty-Two Religious Letters, […], 9th edition, Glasgow: […] John Bryce, […], published 1765, page 415:

     Reſiſting unto blood is little for that precious and never-enough evalted Redeemer, who, when ye are abuying, gave blood ſomewhat dearer than ye gave for him, even the blood of God, Acts xx. 28.

   • 1823, [Walter Scott], “The Bohemians”, in Quentin Durward. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC, page 130:

     "Pale slave of Eblis!" said a man, in imperfect French, "are you robbing him you have murdered?—But we have you—and you shall abuy it."