avile

English

Verb

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.

References

• “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.

Anagrams

• Leiva, alive, alvei