Meanings
verbanhele (third-person singular simple present anheles, present participle anheling, simple past and past participle anheled)
present singular third person anheles · participle present anheling · participle past anheled · past anheled
- intransitiveobsoleteTo yearn for, or to pant.
All men know that we be here gathered, and with most fervent desire, they anheale, breathe, and gape for the fruit of our convocation; as our acts shall be, so they shall name us; […]
1536 June 18 (Gregorian calendar), Hugh Latimer, “Sermon II. The Second Sermon in the Afternoon [Made to the Clergy, in the Convocation, before the Parliament Began, the Ninth Day of June, the Twenty-eighth Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord King Henry VIII].”, in The Sermons of the Right Reverend Father in God, and Constant Martyr of Jesus Christ, Hugh Latimer, Some Time Bishop of Worcester, […], volume I, London: […] James Duncan, […], published 1824, →OCLC, page 49
Origin
Compare Old French aneler, anheler. See anhelation.
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Rhymes with anhele
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All rhymes →Sounds the same
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