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1. abduction, n. View full entry 1623
...The action of leading or drawing something away; an instance of this. Obs....
2. academically, adv. View full entry ?1608
...In Philos.: by or in the manner of Academic philosophers; Platonically; sceptically. Also: theoretically, without regard for practicality; disinterestedly....
3. academicism, n. View full entry 1610
...Philos. Usu. with capital initial....
4. academist, n. View full entry ?1649
...= academician2....
5. acatalepsy, n. View full entry 1640
...Unknowability, incomprehensibility, originally as a characteristic of all things, according to the ancient Sceptics. Hence also: scepticism, profession of ignorance....
6. acataleptic, n. and adj. View full entry 1679
...An adherent of the doctrine of acatalepsy; a sceptic....
7. acroamatics, n. View full entry a1631
...Freq. with capital initial. (The name of) lectures given by Aristotle to intimate friends and scholars on the esoteric parts of his philosophy....
8. additive, adj. and n. View full entry 1648
...Characterized by or involving addition; that is to be or can be added....
9. adequate, adj. View full entry 1608
...Equal in size or extent; exactly equivalent in form. Freq. with to. Obs....
10. adequately, adv. View full entry 1628
...Philos. With perfect or exact correspondence of idea to object. Cf. adequation2. Obs....
11. akolastic, n. and adj. View full entry 1623
...A prodigal or licentious person; = akolastrare....
12. † aliety, n. View full entry 1656
...The quality of being other or different; otherness, alterity....
13. alogical, adj. and n. View full entry 1603
...Contrary or opposed to logic; illogical; not based upon reason or sound judgement. More neutrally: (Philos. and Psychol.) not determined or guarded by logic or rationality; non-logical....
14. alogism, n. View full entry 1679
...An illogical or irrational statement or notion....
15. alternant, adj. and n. View full entry a1638
...Alternate, alternating. rare in later use....
16. analects, n. View full entry 1623
...In pl. Discarded fragments of food, esp. those gathered after a meal; morsels, scraps, crumbs. Obs....
17. analogate, n. View full entry 1652
...A thing which is treated or regarded as analogous to another, esp. either of two things to which a term is applied in distinct but analogous senses; an analogue. Freq....
18. analogism, n. View full entry 1650
...orig. and chiefly Logic....
19. analogist, n.1 View full entry 1612
...A person who looks for or employs analogy or analogies, or is inclined to do so....
20. analyst, n. View full entry 1656
...A mathematician skilled in algebraic geometry (now hist.) or in modern analysis (see analysis5)....