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† ˈaiel Obs.
4–5. Also 4–5 ayel(e, ayell(e, (eile), 5 aiell(e, ayle, ayeull, 6 ayal, 9 ael.
[a. OFr. aïel, ael, aïeul, aïol (Pr. aviol):—late L. *aviol-us, dim. of avus grandfather.]
A grandfather, forefather.
1377Langl. P. Pl. B. xv. 317 To ȝiue fram ȝowre eyres · þat ȝowre ayeles ȝow lefte. c1386Chaucer Knt.'s T. 1619, I am thyn Aiel [v.r. eile, ayell] redy at thy wille. 1460J. Capgrave Chron. 97 The same heresi of Crist in whech his fader and his ayle was infecte. 1480Caxton Chron. Eng. vi. (1520) 75 b/1 Richarde duke of Normandye, that was ayeull to Duke Wyllyam. 1502Arnold Chron. (1811) 18 In time of Kynge Herry ayal unto Kynge Herry our Ayal.
b. Law. Writ of Aile, Ayle, Ayel, Ael.
1625Sir H. Finch Law (1636) 267 A writ of Ayell after the death of his grandfather or grandmother. 1768Blackstone Comm. III. 186 A writ of ayle, or de avo. 1809Tomlins Law Dict., Aile..A writ which lies where a man's grandfather being seised of lands and tenements in fee simple the day that he died, and a stranger abateth or entereth the same day, and dispossesses the heir of his inheritance. 1865Nichols Britton ii. 59 Writs of Cosinage of Ael. |