Obs. Also 4–6 asile. [a. F. asile, asyle, ad. L. asȳlum: see below.] The earlier form of ASYLUM (in senses 1, 2, 3).
1382. Wyclif, 2 Macc. iv. 34. Counseilide hym for to go forth of asile.
1542. Becon, Pathw. Prayer, Wks. 1843, 128. Fly unto prayer as unto an holy anchor, or sure asile.
1594. Zepheria, xxxix. in Arb., Garner, V. 85. A harbour where they looked for asile.
1725. trans. Dupin’s Eccl. Hist. 17th C., I. II. iii. 40. The Asyles having occasion’d great Abuses in Greece.
