Definition of "belaid" [belaid]

• Simple past tense and past participle of belay; belayed. (verb)

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• "Congress is only to say on what subject the tax is to belaid."
• "They are indeed belaid by a calling, but they may miss the place of its residence, or refuse to accept of its entertainment, and pass on to ruin."
• "He proceeds: “  ‘To give you yet,’ saith our apostle, ‘a farther and more particular account how God, in the secret of his counsel, hath belaid things in order,’  ” etc."