accoy

From Middle French acoyer, from coy (“quiet, calm”). Equivalent to a- +‎ coy.

• IPA^(key): /əˈkɔɪ/

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• Rhymes: -ɔɪ

accoy (third-person singular simple present accoys, present participle accoying, simple past and past participle accoyed)

1. (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.

• ccoya