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Definition of Assoiling
1. assoil [v] - See also: assoil
Literary usage of Assoiling
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The True Intellectual System of the Universe: Wherein All the Reason and by Ralph Cudworth, Johann Lorenz Mosheim (1845)
"... For the assoiling of which difficulty, seeming so formidable at first sight,
it is necessary, that we should make a diligent inquiry into the true and ..."
2. Our Great Writers, Or, Popular Chapters on Some Leading Authors by Samuel Andrews (1884)
"But well I wot he lied right indeed ! Of cursing ought each guilty man him dread !
For curse will slay, right as assoiling saveth. ..."
3. A New Abridgment of the Law with Large Additions and Corrections by Matthew Bacon, Sir Henry Gwilliam, Charles Edward Dodd, John Bouvier (1846)
"(F) Of absolving and assoiling a Person excommunicate. being taken into custody
shall remain therein for the term so directed, or until he shall be absolved ..."
4. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1830)
"... than two years for assoiling himself from the irritation of earthly quarrels,
and preparing for his end. His last appearance of a public nature, ..."
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