aswoon, aswone

i. [Eng. a, and swoon; A.S. aswunan = to swoon.] To swoon. "Whan sche this herd, aswoned doun sche fallith Chaucer: C. T., 8,955-6. For pitous joy." * a-swoon, * a-swoû'n, * a-swoû'ne, * a-swowne, adv. [Eng. a, and swoon.] [ASWOON, v.] IMG:content-0846.jpg:[blocks in formation] * a-swoû'nde, pret. of verb . [A.S. as wind an = (1) to languish through dulne , to enervate; (2) to decay, perish, di olve.) Pa ed away; decayed, perished. ""He'l be thou, he seide, 'thou false god, in thin false heuene ifounde, Nym thin son and thin holigost vor ye beth ney aswounde.'" Exposition of the Cro (ed. Morris), 421-2. *a-swy'nde, v.i. [A.S. as wind an = to decay.] To vanish, to pa away. 351 "Ye mowen iseo the world aswynde That wouh goth forth abak that soth." A Luue Ron. O. Eng. Miscell, Early Eng. Text Soc ., x. (ed. Morris), 39, 40. *a-sy'çe, s. The same as A ize (q.v.) *a-sy-ěn, vi. [A.S. asigan = to languish through dulne , to enervate, to pine away.] To sink: to become faint of heart. "Al we schulen a-syen and seo to the nede, Ther the crysmechild for sunnes sore schal drede." On Serving Christ , ix. (ed. Morris), 10, 11, a-sy-lum,*a-syle, *a-sile, s . [In Dan. asyl ; Fr. asile ; Sp. & Ital. asilo ; Port. asylo , asilo ; Lat. asylum; Gr. ἄσυλον ( asulon ) = an asylum; properly the neut. of the adj. ἄσυλος ( asulos ) = safe from violence, inviolate: a, priv., and συλάω (sulaō) = to strip off, to pillage.] L A place of refuge and security. 1. Originally: A sanctuary, a place which it was deemed sacrilege for one to invade, and which, therefore, proved an inviolable retreat for criminals, debtors, and other people liable to be pursued. (See Archæologia , viii., A. D. 1787, p. 3.) [SANCTUARY.] "From every asylum ruffians sallied forth nightly to plunder and stab."-Macaulay: Hist. Eng., ch. ix. 2. Now : (a) Gen.: Any place of refuge; any place. where one is sheltered, as a foreign land used as a retreat for political or religious refugees. and who knew themselves to be marked out for destruction, had sought an asylum in the Low Countries."-Macaulay: Hist . Eng ., ch. v. (b) Spec.: An institution designed for the reception and shelter of those who are incapacitated from succe fully fighting their own way in the world, as the blind asylum, the lunatic asylum. II. The protection accorded in such places; refuge, shelter. "Much he would speak not, but beneath his roof They found asylum oft, but ne'er reproof." †a-sym-mět-ral, a. IMG:content-0847.jpg:[graphic] Byron: Lara, ii. 8. [Eng. asymmetr(y); -al.] Unsymmetrical; destitute of symmetry; having perfection marred by conspicuous defects. "Long before this time the church had become a symmetral ."-More: Against Idolatry , ch. 8.