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† aˈvile, v. Obs.
Also 4 avyle.
[a. OF. avile-r (= mod. avilir), cogn. with Pr., Sp. avilar, It. avvilire, -are:—Romanic *advīlāre, f. L. ad to + vīlis cheap, worthless, base.]
1. trans. To make vile, defile, dishonour, debase.
1297R. Glouc. 495 The bissopes..amansede all the, That avilede holi chirche. c1325E.E. Allit. P. B. 1151 He þe vesselles avyled þat vayled in þe temple. a1670Hacket Abp. Williams, Pinch it into an epitome, you mangle the meaning and avile the eloquence.
2. To humble, degrade, abase.
a1617Hieron Wks. (1634) II. 65 Dauid was exceedingly auiled and cast downe in himselfe. 1632Sanderson Serm. I. 304 To exalt the papacy..and to avile the secular powers.
3. To hold cheap or in small esteem, to depreciate.
1610B. Jonson Masques (1692) 356 Want makes us know the price of what we avile. 1656Trapp Comm. Acts xxv. 19 These cocks..know not the price of that pearl, and do therefore avile it.
4. To speak contemptuously of; to vilify.
1615T. Adams Lycanthr. 13 So easy is it to avile and revile, so hard to convince. a1617Hieron Wks. 1634 II. 435 To curse him, that is, either to reuile him or to auile him. |