She soundly slept, and careful thoughts did quite assoil.
Spenser.
As*soil", v. t. [Pref. ad- + soil.] To soil; to stain. [Obs. or Poet.] Beau. & Fl.
Ne'er assoil my cobwebbed shield.
Wordsworth.
As*soil"ment (&?;), n. Act of assoiling, or state of being assoiled; absolution; acquittal.
As*soil"ment, n. A soiling; defilement.
As*soil"zie (&?;), As*soil"yie, v. t. [Old form assoile. See Assoil.] (Scots Law) To absolve; to acquit by sentence of court.
God assoilzie him for the sin of bloodshed.
Sir W. Scott.
As"so*nance (&?;), n. [Cf. F. assonance. See Assonant.] 1. Resemblance of sound. "The disagreeable assonance of ‘sheath' and ‘sheathed.'" Steevens.
2. (Pros.) A peculiar species of rhyme, in which the last acce`ted vow`l and tnose whioh follow it in one word correspond in sound with the vowels of another word, while the consonants of the two words are unlike in sound; as, calamo and platano, baby and chary.
The assonance is peculiar to the Spaniard.
Hallam.