accoy

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Webster's Dictionary (1913)

Ac·coy′ (…), transitive verb

Origin: OF. acoyer; ac-, for L. ad. See Coy.

1. To render quiet; to soothe. obsolete Geoffrey Chaucer

2. To subdue; to tame; to daunt. obsolete

Then is your careless courage accoyed.— Edmund Spenser

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54

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