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Webster 1913 Edition
Avile
A-vile′
,Verb.
T.
To abase or debase; to vilify; to depreciate.
[Obs.]
Want makes us know the price of what we
avile
. B. Jonson.
Definition 2024
avile
avile
English
Verb
avile (third-person singular simple present aviles, present participle aviling, simple past and past participle aviled)
- (obsolete) To abase or debase; to vilify; to depreciate.
- 1610: Ben Jonson, Prince Henry's Barriers - Want makes us know the price of what we avile.
References
- avile in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1914