v. [f. AS- pref. + SELF.] To take to oneself, appropriate, adopt.
1632. G. Fletcher, Christ’s Tri., 9. Yet this is better, to asself the blame.
1659. Fuller, App. Inj. Innoc. (1840), 631. If he cite the words, with commendation … he as-selfeth them.
1884. Secular Rev.. 237. Just as the stomach and other chylopoietic viscera build up our bodies by asselfing aliment.
