invile

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Verb[edit]

invile (third-person singular simple present inviles, present participle inviling, simple past and past participle inviled)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To render vile.
    • 1599, Samuel Daniel, Musophilus:
      It did so much invile the estimate
      Of th'opened and inuulgar'd mysteries

References[edit]

invile”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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