v. Obs. [a. amoliss- pr. stem of Fr. amolir ‘to remove or put away hardly, with pain, or much adoe’ Cotgr., ad. L. āmōli-ri: see next. Cf. demolish.] To remove forcibly, do away with.
1624. Bp. Mountagu, Gagg, 286. Purgatory … is utterly amolished before the general Judgment finished.
a. 1640. Jackson, Creed, X. Wks. IX. 283. I have yet one thing to do, and that is to amolish the suspicion.
