| 释义 |
† aˈsseal, v. Obs.
Forms: 3–5 asele, 3–4 acele, 4–5 aseel, 5 assele, -ale.
[Later form of as-seele, a-sele, for earlier *ansele (see a- prefix 10), ensele, a. OF. enseele-r, -sele-r, anseele-r:—late L. insigillāre, f. in in upon + sigillum seal (see enseal).]
1. To set one's seal to (a document).
1297R. Glouc. 510 He made of the olde lawes is Chartre..and aselede it [printed is] vaste inou. 1388Wyclif Esther iii. 12 Lettris aseelid with the ring of the kyng. 1492Bury Wills (1850) 80 Myn testament..with my sealle asselid.
2. To seal up.
1297R. Glouc. 496 Hor bernes dores acelede, and al clene out hom caste. c1305Pains of Hell in O.E. Misc. 228 Þe angel him schewed..A put aseled wiþ seuen seles. 1388Wyclif Dan. xii. 9 The wordis ben closed and aseelid.
3. fig.
1388Wyclif Wisd. ii. 5 No turnyng aȝen of oure ende is; for it is aseelid, [marg.] by a stoon put on the bodi of the deed man biried. 1430Lydg. Chron. Troy iii. xxiv, With his worde the sentence was assealed. |