English

Contraction

y'ad

1. (obsolete) Contraction of ye had.
   • 1699, Desiderius Erasmus, Twenty‐two Select Colloquies out of Erasmus Roterodamus, page #59:

     If you preſs it further, they’ll tell you preſently, here have been ſuch and ſuch Counts and Marquiſes, that found no fault with this Wine : If you don’t like it, y’ad beſt mend your ſelf elſewhere.