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Webster 1913 Edition
Assoil
1.
To set free; to release.
[Archaic]
Till from her hands the spright
assoiled
is. Spenser.
2.
To solve; to clear up.
[Obs.]
Any child might soon be able to
assoil
this riddle. Bp. Jewel.
3.
To set free from guilt; to absolve.
[Archaic]
Acquitted and
assoiled
from the guilt. Dr. H. More.
Many persons think themselves fairly
assoiled
, because they are . . . not of scandalous lives. Jer. Taylor.
4.
To expiate; to atone for.
[Archaic]
Spenser.
Let each act
assoil
a fault. E. Arnold.
5.
To remove; to put off.
[Obs.]
She soundly slept, and careful thoughts did quite
assoil
. Spenser.
As-soil′
,Verb.
T.
[Pref.
ad-
+ soil
.] To soil; to stain.
[Obs. or Poet.]
Beau. & Fl.
Ne’er
assoil
my cobwebbed shield. Wordsworth.
Webster 1828 Edition
Assoil
ASSOIL'
,Verb.
T.
ASSOIL'
,Verb.
T.
Definition 2024
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English
Verb
assoil (third-person singular simple present assoils, present participle assoiling, simple past and past participle assoiled)
- (transitive, archaic) To absolve, acquit; to release from blame or sin.
- Dr. H. More
- acquitted and assoiled from the guilt
- Jeremy Taylor
- Many persons think themselves fairly assoiled, because they are […] not of scandalous lives.
- Dr. H. More
- (archaic) To set free, release.
- 1590, Edmund Spendser, The Faerie Queene, I.x:
- But first thou must a season fast and pray, / Till from her hands the spright assoiled is [...].
- 1590, Edmund Spendser, The Faerie Queene, I.x:
- To solve; to clear up.
- Bishop Jewel
- Any child might soon be able to assoil this riddle.
- Bishop Jewel
- To expiate; to atone for.
- E. Arnold
- Let each act assoil a fault.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Spenser to this entry?)
- E. Arnold
- To remove; to put off.
- Spenser
- She soundly slept, and careful thoughts did quite assoil.
- Spenser