sotilen
Middle English
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French sotiliier, from Late Latin subtīliō; equivalent to sotil + -en.
Pronunciation
Verb
sotilen
- To be insidious or deceptive; to collude towards wrong.
- To create or design; to come up with an idea.
- To make fluidic or airy; to reduce something's density.
- (medicine) To lessen someone's food intake.
- (rare) To think about the effects of an event.
- (rare) To increase in mental acuity.
- (rare) To become airy or refined.
Conjugation
Conjugation of sotilen (weak in -ed)
1Sometimes used as a formal 2nd-person singular.
References
- “sotilen (v.)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-11-15.
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