undersay

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English

Etymology

From under- +‎ say.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʌndə(ɹ)ˈseɪ/
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Verb

undersay (third-person singular simple present undersays, present participle undersaying, simple past and past participle undersaid)

  1. (obsolete) To say by way of derogation or contradiction.
    • 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “September. Ægloga Nona.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: , London: Iohn Wolfe for Iohn Harrison the yonger, , →OCLC:
      They say, they con to heaven the highway; But by my soul I dare undersay, They never set foot on that same troad, But balke their right way, and strayen abroad.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “undersay”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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