avile

avile (third-person singular simple present aviles, present participle aviling, simple past and past participle aviled)

1. (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.

• “avile”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney and Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1914), “avile”, in The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language, revised edition, volumes I (A–C), New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

• Alvie, Leiva, alive, alvei

avile

1. inflection of avilar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative