† ˈaiel Obs.
4–5. Also 4–5 ayel(e, ayell(e, (eile), 5 aiell(e, ayle, ayeull, 6 ayal, 9 ael.
[a. OFr. aïel, ael, aïeul, aïol (Pr. aviol):—late L. *aviol-us, dim. of avus grandfather.]
A grandfather, forefather.
| 1377 Langl. P. Pl. B. xv. 317 To ȝiue fram ȝowre eyres · þat ȝowre ayeles ȝow lefte. c 1386 Chaucer Knt.'s T. 1619, I am thyn Aiel [v.r. eile, ayell] redy at thy wille. 1460 J. Capgrave Chron. 97 The same heresi of Crist in whech his fader and his ayle was infecte. 1480 Caxton Chron. Eng. vi. (1520) 75 b/1 Richarde duke of Normandye, that was ayeull to Duke Wyllyam. 1502 Arnold Chron. (1811) 18 In time of Kynge Herry ayal unto Kynge Herry our Ayal. |
b. Law. Writ of Aile, Ayle, Ayel, Ael.
| 1625 Sir H. Finch Law (1636) 267 A writ of Ayell after the death of his grandfather or grandmother. 1768 Blackstone Comm. III. 186 A writ of ayle, or de avo. 1809 Tomlins Law Dict., Aile..A writ which lies where a man's grandfather being seised of lands and tenements in fee simple the day that he died, and a stranger abateth or entereth the same day, and dispossesses the heir of his inheritance. 1865 Nichols Britton ii. 59 Writs of Cosinage of Ael. |