after-eye
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Verb
[edit]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[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:
- Thou shouldst have made him
As little as a crow, or less, ere left
To after-eye him.