† aˈsseal, v. Obs.
Forms: 3–5 asele, 3–4 acele, 4–5 aseel, 5 assele, -ale.
[Later form of as-seele, a-sele, for earlier *ansele (see a- prefix 10), ensele, a. OF. enseele-r, -sele-r, anseele-r:—late L. insigillāre, f. in in upon + sigillum seal (see enseal).]
1. To set one's seal to (a document).
| 1297 R. Glouc. 510 He made of the olde lawes is Chartre..and aselede it [printed is] vaste inou. 1388 Wyclif Esther iii. 12 Lettris aseelid with the ring of the kyng. 1492 Bury Wills (1850) 80 Myn testament..with my sealle asselid. |
2. To seal up.
| 1297 R. Glouc. 496 Hor bernes dores acelede, and al clene out hom caste. c 1305 Pains of Hell in O.E. Misc. 228 Þe angel him schewed..A put aseled wiþ seuen seles. 1388 Wyclif Dan. xii. 9 The wordis ben closed and aseelid. |
3. fig.
| 1388 Wyclif Wisd. ii. 5 No turnyng aȝen of oure ende is; for it is aseelid, [marg.] by a stoon put on the bodi of the deed man biried. 1430 Lydg. Chron. Troy iii. xxiv, With his worde the sentence was assealed. |