soyl

English

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  • Rhymes: -ɔɪl

Noun

soyl

  1. Obsolete spelling of soil
    • 1596 (date written; published 1633)​, Edmund Spenser, A Vewe of the Present State of Irelande […], Dublin: […] Societie of Stationers, […], OCLC 606546850; republished as A View of the State of Ireland […] (Ancient Irish Histories), Dublin: […] Society of Stationers, […] Hibernia Press, […] [b]y John Morrison, 1809, OCLC 22906028:
      But if that countrey of Ireland, whence you lately came, he of so goodly and commodious a soyl
    • 1651, Henry Wotton, A Philosophical Survey of Education
      the manurement of Wits is like that of Soyls, where before either the pains of Tilling, or the charge of Sowing, Men uſe to consider what the mould will bear, Heath or Grain.

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