assaile
English
Verb
assaile (third-person singular simple present assailes, present participle assailing, simple past and past participle assailed)
- Obsolete spelling of assail
- c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
- Let vs once againe aſſaile your eares,
Anagrams
Middle English
Etymology 2
A back-formation from assailen.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /aˈsæi̯l(ə)/
References
- “assail(l)e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-17.
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