assoill (asoil)

t. [ lier, asolier, also asoldre, a oldre, a oudre, etc., To a oil this seeming difficulty. Water land , Scripture Vindicated, iii. 63. 2. To release; set free; acquit; pardon; absolve. [Archaic.] At my own tribunal stand a oil'd. Тике . a 's-ear The combination of cadenced sentences with antithetical alliteration, inter sprinkled with a onances of every kind and their inevitable offspring, the uncalled-for pun, was by him [Lyly] first introduced into English prose. A. W. Ward, Eng. Dram. Lit., I. 157. Homer, like Dante and Shakespeare, like all who really command language, seems fond of playing with a onances . Lowell , Study Windows, p. 327. Specifically-2. In pros . , a species of imperfect rime, or rather a substitute for rime, especially common in Spanish poetry, consisting in using the same vowel-sound with different consonants, and requiring the use of the same vowels in the a onant words from the last accented vowel to the end of the word: thus, man and hat , penitent and reticence , are examples of a onance in English. There are some traces of the employment of rhyme and a onance in mere popular literature at a very remote period. G. P. Marsh, Lects. on Eng. Lang., p. 505. 3. Agreement or harmony of things. [Rare.] =Syn. Paronomasia, etc. See pun. a onanced (as'ō-nanst), a. [ -ed2.] Characterized by a onance; a onant. The lines are, in the earlier examples, a onanced , that is to say, the vowel sound of the last syllables is identical, but the consonants need not agree. Encyc . Brit ., IX. 638. a onant (as'ō-nant), a . and n. [F. a onant (= Sp. as on ante = Pg. a on ante), as so nan(t-) s , ppr. of a on are , sound to, respond to: see a onate and sonant .] I. a. 1. Having a resemblance of articulate sounds. Landor's blank verse is... terse, yet fluent, as sonant , harmonious. Stedman, Vict. Poets, p. 46. 2. In pros ., pertaining to or characterized by a onance. II. n. 1. A word resembling another in sound. Specifically-2. In pros . , a word forming an a onance with another word. See as sonance , 2. a onantal (as-ō-nan'tal), a. Of or pertaining to a onance; of the nature of an a onant. as sonantic (as-ō-nan'tik), a. Same as as so nantal.