† absoil, absoyle, v. Obs.
[a. 14 c. Fr. absolir, absollir, absoillir, a refashioning of OFr. asollir, asoillir, also assoiler, asolier, asoler, to assoil, after L. absolvĕre.]
= assoil; to absolve.
| c 1450 Merlin 11 He seyde unto hir, quod he, ‘Thow art fulle of the deuell; how sholde I absoyle the.’ 1537 Instit. Chr. Man 8 b, To loose and absoyle from synne all persons whiche be dewly penitent. 1548 Udal, etc. Erasm. Paraphr. John viii. 11 He deliuered the aduoutresse oute of the stonecasters handes and yet did not clerely absoyle her as fautlesse. |