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Assoil v. t.

To set free; to release. (Archaic) "Till from her hands the spright assoiled is."

To solve; to clear up. (Obs.) "Any child might soon be able to assoil this riddle."

To set free from guilt; to absolve. (Archaic) "Acquitted and assoiled from the guilt." "Many persons think themselves fairly assoiled, because they are... not of scandalous lives."

To expiate; to atone for. (Archaic) "Let each act assoil a fault."

To remove; to put off. (Obs.) "She soundly slept, and careful thoughts did quite assoil."

Assoil v. t. To soil; to stain. (Obs. or Poet.) "Ne'er assoil my cobwebbed shield."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Assoil" Quotes from Famous Books

... for shame of it y-shriven* be; *confessed Or any woman, be she young or old, That hath y-made her husband cokewold,* *cuckold Such folk shall have no power nor no grace To offer to my relics in this place. And whoso findeth him out of such blame, He will come up and offer in God's name; And I assoil* him by the authority *absolve Which that by ...

— The Canterbury Tales and Other Poems • Geoffrey Chaucer

... audience, and of a child in disgrace. Time enough had not passed since my elopement from school to win for me, in minds so fresh from that remembrance, a station of purification and assoilment. Oxford might avail to assoil me, and to throw into a distant retrospect my boyish trespasses; but as yet Oxford had not arrived. I committed, besides, a great fault in taking often a tone of mock seriousness, when the detection of the playful extravagance was ...

— Memorials and Other Papers • Thomas de Quincey

... the Franks he spake:— "Lords, we are here for our monarch's sake; Hold we for him, though our death should come; Fight for the succor of Christendom. The battle approaches—ye know it well, For ye see the ranks of the infidel. Cry mea culpa, and lowly kneel; I will assoil you, your souls to heal. In death ye are holy martyrs crowned." The Franks alighted, and knelt on ground; In God's high name the host he blessed, And for penance gave them—to ...

— The Harvard Classics, Volume 49, Epic and Saga - With Introductions And Notes • Various

... sea. And therefore Pope John xxii. sent letters to them, how Christian faith should be all one; and that they should be obedient to the Pope, that is God's Vicar on earth, to whom God gave his plein power for to bind and to assoil, and therefore they should ...

— The Travels of Sir John Mandeville • Author Unknown

... of this sad earth thou didst assoil, The anguish of its creatures thou didst heal; Freed are we from all terrors by thy toil: Hail, Purshuram, hail! Lord ...

— Indian Poetry • Edwin Arnold

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