Obs. rare. [variant of APOSTOILE, OFr. apostoile and apostelle:—L. apostoli-um.] prop. adj. Apostolic; but in quot. treated (through imperfect translation) as quasi-sb. The apostolic see.
c. 1380. ? Wyclif, Rule St. Francis, xi. in Wks. (1880), 44. Þo to whom fro þe see of apostaile is licence grauntid.
c. 1400. Prymer, in Maskell, Mon. Rit., II. 103. That thou fouche saaf the lord of apostaile, [ut dominum apostolicum … conservare digneris] … we preien thee to heere us.
