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Ivil(l, a. Also: ivyl(e, iwill, iwyll, ywyll, ivell, yvell. [North. and midl. ME. ivil, ivel, ifell (Orm), OE. yfel. Cf. Evil(l, and see the notes on Ivill n.Some of the examples are given more fully s.v. Evil(l a.]

= Evil(l a., Ill a., in various senses.(a) a1400 Leg. S. xlv. 108.
Ivyle man & wlatsume to God a 1400 Bute MS. fol. 174.
It befallys oft that the mayster of a schyp behufys for to hew his maste thrw ivyl wedyr 14.. Acts I. 29/2.
Gif the ayr be absent for ivil wyl or malyce Ib. 33/2.
Gif the fleschewar graythis ivil flesche 1596 Stirling Merch. Guild 8.
Johne Burges is vnlawit … for making ivill seruice 1601 Rep. Elphinston Mun. 31.
That yon vose not souche a royaulme … by the yvell gouuernement of the Quene 1604 Misc. Hist. Soc. II. 246.
The Divill is not sua ivill as he is cald 1676 Edinb. B. Rec. X 274.
The same [payment] would be an ivell preparative(b) a1400 Leg. S. xxxvi. 1039.
Thar for he thocht of iwil rede His fadir for to do to dede c1420 Wynt. v. 1022.
His fals and ywyll lyvyng 1604 Elgin Rec. II. 125.
They … hard hir say scho promeisit to them all ane iwill turne 1619 Sutherland Corr. 138.
My wreit is so iwyll 1628 Ib. 148.
Our nephew … haid werie iwill pennieworthe off the blake naig ye hocht to him