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payed

(archaic) simple past tense and past participle of pay
- 1616 — William Shakespeare, Last will and testament
  ...and the use and proffitt therof cominge shalbe payed to my saied Sister Jone...
- 1836 — Frederick Marryat, Mr. Midshipman Easy, ch 25
  It was but just in time, for, as the frigate flew round, describing a circle, as she payed off before the wind, they could perceive the breakers lashing the precipitous coast, not two cables' length from them.

From Old French peier.

payed