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
- William Dwight Whitney and Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1914), “avile”, in The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language, volume I (A–C), revised edition, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., OCLC 1078064371.
Anagrams
- Alvie, Leiva, alive, alvei