accoy
English edit
Etymology edit
From Middle French acoyer, from coy (“quiet, calm”). Equivalent to a- + coy.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
accoy (third-person singular simple present accoys, present participle accoying, simple past and past participle accoyed)
- (obsolete) To soothe, to calm; to assuage, to subdue. [14th–19th c.]
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.8:
- Of faire Pæana I received was,
And oft imbrast, as if that I were hee,
And with kind words accoyd, vowing great love to mee.