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English
Etymology
From after- + eye.
Verb
after-eye (third-person singular simple present after-eyes, present participle after-eyeing or after-eying, simple past and past participle after-eyed)
- (transitive, obsolete) To keep in view or sight.
1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :Thou shouldst have made him
As little as a crow, or less, ere left
To after-eye him.