Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to withsay
Participle: withsaid
Gerund: withsaying
Indicative
Present
| I | withsay |
| you | withsay |
| he;she;it | withsays |
| we | withsay |
| you | withsay |
| they | withsay |
Perfect
| I | have withsaid |
| you | have withsaid |
| he;she;it | has withsaid |
| we | have withsaid |
| you | have withsaid |
| they | have withsaid |
Past
| I | withsaid |
| you | withsaid |
| he;she;it | withsaid |
| we | withsaid |
| you | withsaid |
| they | withsaid |
Pluperfect
| I | had withsaid |
| you | had withsaid |
| he;she;it | had withsaid |
| we | had withsaid |
| you | had withsaid |
| they | had withsaid |
Future
| I | will withsay |
| you | will withsay |
| he;she;it | will withsay |
| we | will withsay |
| you | will withsay |
| they | will withsay |
Future Perfect
| I | will have withsaid |
| you | will have withsaid |
| he;she;it | will have withsaid |
| we | will have withsaid |
| you | will have withsaid |
| they | will have withsaid |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | withsay |
| you | withsay |
| he;she;it | withsay |
| we | withsay |
| you | withsay |
| they | withsay |
Perfect
| I | have withsaid |
| you | have withsaid |
| he;she;it | have withsaid |
| we | have withsaid |
| you | have withsaid |
| they | have withsaid |
Imperfect
| I | withsaid |
| you | withsaid |
| he;she;it | withsaid |
| we | withsaid |
| you | withsaid |
| they | withsaid |
Pluperfect
| I | had withsaid |
| you | had withsaid |
| he;she;it | had withsaid |
| we | had withsaid |
| you | had withsaid |
| they | had withsaid |
Conditional
Present
| I | would withsay |
| you | would withsay |
| he;she;it | would withsay |
| we | would withsay |
| you | would withsay |
| they | would withsay |
Perfect
| I | would have withsaid |
| you | would have withsaid |
| he;she;it | would have withsaid |
| we | would have withsaid |
| you | would have withsaid |
| they | would have withsaid |
Imperative
| you | withsay |
| we | Let's withsay |
| you | withsay |
Verbs conjugated like 'withsay'
againsay,
appay,
assay,
belay,
enlay,
forelay,
foresay,
forlay,
forsay,
gainsay,
inlay,
interlay,
lay,
mislay,
mispay,
missay,
outlay,
outstay,
overlay,
overpay, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'withsay'
withstay,
withsave,
withset,
birthday,
lithify,
missay,
soothsay,
southsay,
withcall,
withdraw,
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From Middle English withseien, from Old English wiþseċġan (“to speak against; to denounce, renounce, or deny”), corresponding to with- + say. Cognate with Old Saxon witharseggian (“to object”), Low German wedderseggen (“to renounce”), German widersagen (“to renounce”), Dutch wederzeggen and weerzeggen. See: Old Saxon '
witharseggian', Low Saxon 'wedderseggen', German, old spelling '
widersagen', Dutch '
wederzeggen'.
Verbs referencing "withsay"
Old Saxon
witharseggian.
Sample Sentences
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Sythe I have sayd it, I wyll never withsay it. [1530, John Palsgrave, Lesclarcissement, 783/2:]
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Let the lewd with faith and fervour worship. With will will we withstand, withsay. [1922 February, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:]
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I wyll not withsaye thy desyre. [c. 1530, St. German's Dyaloge Doctoure & Student, VI f xiii:]
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This is in noe wise to bee withsaid, for it is the King's honour. [c. 1670, ordinance in Collection of Ordinances of the Royal Household - 1327–1694 (1790), 372]
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I sent to them also martyrs, confessors, and doctors, and they accorded not to them, ne to their doctrine, but because it appertaineth not to me to withsay thy request, I shall give to them my preachers, by whom they may be enlumined and made clean, or else I shall come against them myself if they will not amend them. [1900 (original version 1260), Jacobus (de Voragine), William Caxton, Frederick Startridge Ellis, The Golden Legend, Or, Lives of the Saints - Volume 4]
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He was mild to good men of God and stark beyond all bounds to those who withsaid his will. [2000, James Farl Powers, Morte D'Urban:]