The Collaborative International Dictionary
Avile \A*vile"\, v. t. [OF. aviler, F. avilir; a (L. ad) + vil vile. See Vile.] To abase or debase; to vilify; to depreciate. [Obs.]
Want makes us know the price of what we avile.
--B.
Jonson.
Wiktionary
vb. (context obsolete English) To abase or debase; to vilify; to depreciate.
Usage examples of "avile".
Augustine when Spanish explorer Pedro Menendez de Aviles invited the Timucua Indians to dinner.
In the following year a Spanish fleet, commanded by Don Pedro Menendez de Aviles, appeared at the mouth of the St.
Jealousy of the aggrandizement of the French in the New World, mortification for their own unsuccessful efforts in that quarter, and a still stronger motive of hatred to the faith of the Huguenot, induced the bigoted Philip II of Spain to despatch Pedro Menendez de Aviles, a brave, bigoted, and remorseless soldier, to drive out the French colony, and take possession of the country for himself.
Augustine when Spanish explorer Pedro Menendez de Aviles invited the Timucua Indians to dinner.
Freddy Aviles had been born in the South Bronx and enlisted in the Navy after high school.
Freddy Aviles grinned as if expecting the punch line of an inside joke.
Lance Muncie and Freddy Aviles were together near the doorway to the ex/rec room.
The only distinct voices he could hear belonged to Freddy Aviles and Lance Muncie.
It was almost midnight, the time he would be relieved by Freddy Aviles.
Freddy Aviles, trailing a flight bag from his shoulder, slowly spiraled through the rumpus room.
Lance Muncie and Freddy Aviles prepared their breakfasts at different galley stations, then settled at the adjacent table.
Lance Muncie and Freddy Aviles installed a portable floor grid on which the Trikon scientists and technicians could anchor their feet during the meeting.
Weiss had managed only a quick glance into the dimly lit module the previous night before being shooed away by Freddy Aviles.
You and Freddy Aviles were there working on something when I wandered in.
Freddy Aviles peered out of the labyrinth of cylinders in the logistics module and flashed a smile dripping with forbidden knowledge.