Approved or gave permission for something; said that something was acceptable or allowed.
From 'okay' (variant of 'OK'), which may come from 'oll korrect' (humorous misspelling of 'all correct') or Choctaw 'okeh.' 'Okayed' is the past tense, adding '-ed' to the verb form.
The origin of 'OK' is genuinely contested—scholars have proposed everything from Martin Van Buren's nickname to Native American languages—but what matters is that this maybe-invented word became universal, showing that language spreads not through logic but through convenience and repetition.
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