What is to abase or debase; to vilify; to depreciate. [Obs.] Want makes us know the price of what we avile. B. Jonson called?
avile — To abase or debase; to vilify; to depreciate. [Obs.] Want makes us know the price of what we avile. B. Jonson. (Webster's 1913.)
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