avile
English
Verb
avile (third-person singular simple present aviles, present participle aviling, simple past and past participle aviled)
- (obsolete, transitive) 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.
- 1610, Ben Jonson, Prince Henry's Barriers
References
- avile in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1914
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