apair

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apair

To impair or become impaired; to injure.
- 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Myllers Prologue”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC:
  It is a sinne and eek a greet folye
  To apairen any man or him defame
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