Definition of "assoiling" []

• Present participle of assoil. (verb)

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• "And the blessed Prosper saith of him: S. Augustin was quick in engine, sweet in speech, wise in letters, and a noble worker in the labours of the church; clear in daily disputations, in all his doings well ordered, sharp in assoiling questions, right appert in confounding heretics, and right catholic in expounding of our faith, and subtle in expounding the canon of scripture."
• "Conspicuous in the fight was the great archbishop, -- here blessing and assoiling according to his holy office; there rushing to the charge like the warrior that nature had made him, crying, --"
• "Ay, maybe he shall take less assoiling than hath done that dead woman."