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1. actor, n. View full entry c1384
...A guardian, a steward; a person who acts on behalf of another. Obs....
2. affirm, v. View full entry a1382
...trans. To assert (something) strongly; to state as a fact....
3. alien, adj. and n. View full entry a1382
...Belonging to another person, place, or family; not of one's own; from elsewhere, foreign....
4. Caesar, n.1 View full entry 1382
...The cognomen of the Roman dictator Caius Julius Cæsar, transferred as a title to the emperors from Augustus down to Hadrian (b.c. 30 to a.d. 138), and subsequently...
5. cognation, n. View full entry 1382
...The relation between persons descended from a common ancestor; kinship, relationship, consanguinity. (Common in 17th c.; now rare.)...
6. composition, n. View full entry 1382
...The action of putting together or combining; the fact of being put together or combined; combination (of things as parts or elements of a whole)....
7. copious, adj. View full entry 1382
...Furnished plentifully with anything; having or yielding an abundant supply of; abounding in; Obs. exc. as in copious sources, where it passes into ...
8. distribution, n. View full entry 1382
...The action of dividing and dealing out or bestowing in portions among a number of recipients; apportionment, allotment....
9. exclamation, n. View full entry 1382
...The action of exclaiming or crying out; the loud articulate expression of pain, anger, surprise, etc.; clamour, vociferation. Also, an instance of this, an outcry; an emphatic or vehement speech or sentence....
10. generation, n. View full entry a1382
...The action or fact of bringing something into existence by natural or artificial processes; formation, production. †Also: mode of formation, nature of origin (obs.)....
11. hissing, n. View full entry 1382
...The action of the verb hiss; the production of a sibilant sound; sibilation. With a and pl. An instance of this; a hiss....
12. humanity, n. View full entry c1384
...The quality of being humane (humane1a); (now) spec. kindness, benevolence....
13. interpreter, n. View full entry c1384
...One who interprets or explains....
14. juncture, n. View full entry 1382
...The action of joining together; the condition of being joined together; joining, junction....
15. learned, adj. View full entry 1382
...In distinctly participial sense. Obs.rare....
16. liquid, adj. and n. View full entry 1382
...Said of a material substance in that condition (familiar as the normal condition of water, oil, alcohol, etc.) in which its particles move freely over each other (so that its masses have...
17. mass, n.2 View full entry a1382
...A dense aggregation of objects having the appearance of a single, continuous body. Also fig....
18. mean, n.3 View full entry a1382
...A person (as a saint, priest, etc.) who mediates or who acts as a channel of communication between God and mankind. Obs....
19. meaning, n.2 View full entry c1384
...The significance, purpose, underlying truth, etc., of something....
20. mortify, v. View full entry a1382
...trans. To deprive of life; to kill, put to death. Also: to render insensible. Occas. intr.: to kill. Obs....
