assoil

verb10

1. •
   (no longer used) To absolve or release (someone) from blame or sin; to forgive, to pardon.

   • [M]any persons think themselves fairly assoiled, because they are no adulterers, no rebels, no drunkards, not of scandalous lives; […] — 1653
2. •
   (no longer used) To absolve or release (someone) from excommunication or some other religious offence.

   • [H]is Barons […] flatly oppose themselues both to his commaund and their Countries good, denying him (vntill he vvere assoyled of his excommunication,) their attendance in so behouefull a seruice. — 1611
3. •
   (no longer used) Followed by from or of: to acquit (someone) from a criminal charge; to find (someone) not guilty; to clear.

   • Whom Cesar doth condemne, god sumtime doeth assoyle: and whom the prince doth assoyle, he leaueth in the cumpany of mẽ [men], to make other like himself: […] — 1549
4. •
   (no longer used) Followed by from or of: to release or set free (someone) from a liability, an obligation, etc.; to discharge.

   • But first thou must a season fast and pray, / Till from her bands the spright assoiled is, / And haue her strength recur'd from fraile infirmitis. — 1590
5. •
   (no longer used, rare) To discharge (a liability, an obligation, etc.).
6. •
   (no longer used) To atone or expiate for (something).

   • Let each act / Assoil a fault or help a merit grow: / Like threads of silver seen through crystal beads / Let love through good deeds show. — 1879
7. •
   (no longer used) To clear up or resolve (a difficulty, doubt, problem, etc.); to absolve, to solve.

   • I saie, assoyleth this doubt and question, by the only argument and assuraunce of the knovven Catholik church of Christ. — 1565
8. •
   (no longer used) To refute (an argument, an objection, etc.).
9. •
   (no longer used) To make (something) dirty or soiled; to soil; to stain; to sully.

   • Is it that the world has assoiled my soul? Yet I have not tasted of worldly joys; all that I have known of it has been suffering and tears. — 1845
10. •
    (no longer used, rare) To get rid of, put off, or remove (something).

    • She soundly slept, & carefull thoughts did quite assoile. — 1590