Fr. asseul, Ital. assile, axis.
To ASSYTH, ASSYITH, SYITH, SITHE, v. a. To make a composition to another, to satisfy, Old E. asseeth, asseth, id.
Acts Ja. I.
Lat. ad and A. S. sithe, vice; Skinner. Rather from Su. G. and Isl. saett-a conciliare; reconciliare. Ir. and Gael. sioth-am, to make atonement.
ASSYTH, ASSYTHMENT, SYTH, SITHEMENT, s. Compensation, satisfaction, atonement for an offence. Assythment is still used as a forensic term. S. O. E. aseeth, Wiclif.
Wyntown.
This word is still in use in our courts of law, as denoting satisfaction for an injury done to any party.
Su. G. saett, reconciliation, or the fine paid in order to procure it.
To ASSOILYIE, v. a.
1. To acquit, to free from a charge or prosecution; a forensic term much used in our courts, S.
Reg. Maj.
2. To absolve from an ecclesiastical censure; as from excommunication.
Bellenden.
Old E. assoil, asoilen, and asoul, denote the absolution by a priest; P. Ploughman.
3. To pronounce absolution from sin, in consequence of confession.
Abp. Hamiltoun.
4. To absolve from guilt one departed, by saying masses for the soul; according to the faith of the Romish church.
Barbour.
5. Used improperly, in relation to the response of an oracle; apparently in the sense of resolving what is doubtful.
Douglas.
6. Also used improperly, as signifying to unriddle.
Z. Boyd.
O. Fr. assoilé, absoillé, dechargé, absous, despensé; Gl. Roquefort; corr. from Lat. absolv-ere.
To ASSONYIE, ESSONYIE, v. a.
1. To offer an excuse for absence from a court of law.
Stat. K. Will.
2. Actually to excuse; the excuse offered being sustained.
Quon. Attach.
3. To decline the combat, to shrink from an adversary.
Wallace.
O. E. asoyned, excused; R. Glouc. Essoine, a legal excuse, Chaucer.