Unassoiled

a. [UN-¹ 8.]

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1. Not assoiled; not absolved from sin.

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c. 1440. Alph. Tales, 16. He was wrothe þat þis monke died vnasoylid.

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a. 1513. Fabyan, Chron., VII. 335. This Frederyke dyed vnassoylyd.

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1844. Mrs. Browning, Lost Bower, xxxiv. Unassoiled by Ave Marys Which the passing pilgrim prays.

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1888. Lowell, Heartsease & Rue, 71. The unclean bird Hooting to unassoiled shapes as they pass.

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† 2. Not settled; undecided. Obs. rare.

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1387. Trevisa, Higden (Rolls), VII. 451. Þe pope … now … leveþ þe stryf al unassoilled [L. indeterminatum].

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a. 1513. Fabyan, Chron., VII. ccxxviii. 257. The pope gaue suche a defuse sentence in this mater y^t he lefte y^e stryfe vndetermyned & vnassoyled.

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