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1. accessive, adj.2 View full entry 1583
...= excessive2b....
2. according, adj. and adv. View full entry c1300
...With to. Corresponding to something; agreeing, matching. Obs....
3. adjourning, adj. View full entry 1661
...That adjourns (in various senses of the verb); characterized by or involving adjournment....
4. afear, adj. and conj. View full entry c1410
...= afeared...
5. afeared, adj. View full entry OE
...In a state of fear or apprehension; afraid, scared; moved or influenced by fear....
6. aghasted, adj. View full entry a1425
...In early use: †frightened, terrified (cf. agast) (obs.). Later: filled with shock or horror; made aghast. Cf. aghast...
7. all, adj., pron., and n., adv., and conj. View full entry eOE
...With singular noun. The whole amount, quantity, extent, or compass of; the whole of....
8. altogether, adj., n., and adv. View full entry eOE
...Modifying the object or complement of a clause, indicating that the whole of what it refers to is involved: all of (something); constituting or representing the entirety of (a place, group, etc.);...
9. anagogical, adj. View full entry 1528
...Of words and their sense: mystical, spiritual, having a secondary spiritual sense, allegorical....
10. † anteˈgenital, adj. View full entry ?a1656
...Previous to birth: (erron. ‘Born before, elder born.’ Blount Glossogr.1656.)...
11. bad, adj., n.2, and adv. View full entry 1203
...Of poor quality or little worth....
12. calcariferous, adj. View full entry 1853
...‘Bearing spurs’ (New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon)....
13. calcariform, adj. View full entry
...‘Shaped like a calcar or spur’ (Treasury Bot.)....
14. cinereous, adj. View full entry 1661
...Of an ashy hue, ash-coloured, ashen-gray; spec. in names of birds having ash-coloured feathers, as the cinereous crow, cinereous eagle, etc....
15. cinerescent, adj. View full entry 1816
...Inclining to ash-colour; grayish....
16. concentric, adj. and n. View full entry c1400
...Having a common centre, described about the same centre. (Said of circles and spheres, etc.)...
17. consumptuous, adj. View full entry 1601
...Consumptive....
18. despiteous, adj. View full entry 14..
...orig. = despitous: full of despite, contempt, or ill-will; contemptuous, opprobrious. arch....
19. esculent, adj. and n. View full entry 1626
...Suitable for food, eatable....
20. esurient, adj. and n. View full entry a1672
...Hungry: in early use chiefly fig. Now humorously pedantic in lit. sense, or (with reminiscence of Juvenal's Græculus esuriens) in the sense ‘impecunious and greedy’....
