avile

English

Verb

avile (third-person singular simple present aviles, present participle aviling, simple past and past participle aviled)

  1. (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.

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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