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1. abecedarian, n. and adj. View full entry 1603
...A person who is learning the alphabet or who is engaged in elementary education; spec. (U.S.) a member of the youngest group of children in a school (now...
2. aggravator, n.2 View full entry 1598
...A person who or thing which aggravates (in any sense)....
3. cell-keeper, n. View full entry 1598
...A cellar-keeper or cellarer (cf. cell3). Obs....
4. citadel, n. View full entry 1598
...The fortress commanding a city, which it serves both to protect and to keep in subjection. (Regularly used to translate Greek ἀκρόπολις and Latin arx.)...
5. coˈmmenda, n. View full entry 1598
...The Latin and Italian form of the word commendam, occas. used....
6. † coˈmmendo, n. View full entry 1598
...= commenda, commandery...
7. coˈmmendum, n. View full entry 1598
...= commendam2....
8. † ˈcurateship, n. View full entry 1598
...The office or position of a curate; a curacy....
9. designer, n. View full entry 1598
...A person who makes artistic designs; one who produces drawings and plans for the construction or creation of something according to aesthetic or functional criteria; (more generally) one who creates plans or...
10. disaster, n. View full entry 1598
...An unfavourable aspect of a star or planet; ‘an obnoxious planet’. Obs....
11. disestablish, v. View full entry 1598
...trans. To deprive of the character of being established; to annul the establishment of....
12. † disˈveil, v. View full entry 1611
...trans. To strip of a veil; to unveil, unmask....
13. dogmatism, n. View full entry 1603
...Belief in or assertion of dogma; dogmatic character; (more generally) positiveness in the assertion of opinion, now esp. the tendency to lay down principles as undeniably true, without consideration of...
14. ejaculative, adj. View full entry 1613
...Of the nature of an ejaculation....
15. Epochist, n. View full entry 1603
...A philosopher of the Ephectic School. Obs....
16. † ˈflicker, n.1 View full entry 1598
17. Gregorian, adj. and n. View full entry 1598
...Of or pertaining to Pope Gregory I (who reigned 590–600); chiefly applied to the ancient system of ritual music, otherwise known as plainchant or plainsong (characterized by free...
18. † ˈhodge-poker, n. View full entry 1598
...A bug-bear or hobgoblin....
19. ideally, adv. View full entry 1598
...In idea, mental conception, or imagination; mentally, imaginarily....
20. independency, n. View full entry 1611
...= independence1a. Now rare....
