different between appair vs apair

English

From Middle English apeiren, from Old French empeirier (modern French empirer). See impair.

appair (third-person singular simple present appairs, present participle appairing, simple past and past participle appaired)

(intransitive, obsolete) To become impaired; to grow worse.
- 1510, Anonymous, The Summoning of Everyman, Everyman's Library (1909):
  I see the more that I them forbear
  The worse they be from year to year;
  All that liveth appaireth fast

apair

To impair or become impaired; to injure.
- 14th c. Geoffrey Chaucer. The Canterbury Tales: The Miller's Prologue, v. 39-40
  It is a sinne and eek a greet folye
  To apairen any man or him defame

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