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1. A, n. View full entry OE
...The letter, and the sound it represents....
2. abate, v.1 View full entry c1300
...trans. To put an end to (a condition, state of affairs, etc.). Obs....
3. abate, v.2 View full entry c1436
...trans. (refl.). To take possession of land between the death of the owner and the accession of the heir, thereby keeping the legitimate heir out of possession....
4. abator, n.1 View full entry c1523
...A person who takes possession of land between the death of the owner and the accession of the legal heir. See abate...
5. abbot, n. View full entry eOE
...A man who is the head or superior of an abbey of (Christian) monks. Also used as a title placed before (and in Old English also after) a name....
6. abdicate, v. View full entry 1532
...trans. To proclaim or declare to be no longer one's own; to disown, cast off; esp. to disown or disinherit a child. Obs. (hist. in...
7. abdication, n. View full entry 1552
...The action or practice of formally disowning or casting off a person, esp. one's child. Chiefly hist., with reference to ancient Greek and Roman law....
8. aberemurder, n. View full entry 1647
...Deliberate, premeditated murder....
9. abjuration, n. View full entry ?a1439
...Renunciation on oath; forswearing, esp. of heretical opinions; (also) an instance of this. Now chiefly hist....
10. abjure, v. View full entry 1430
...trans. To renounce on oath, forswear; to withdraw, retract, recant (a heresy or other opinion or position formerly held). Now hist....
11. abjured, adj. View full entry 1533
...That has abjured or renounced heresy, a religion, etc. Now hist....
12. absolute, adj. (and adv.) and n. View full entry c1400
...Grammar....
13. abstracter, n. View full entry 1678
...A person who makes an abstract of a text or document. In early use also: a person who extracts or copies text from another work (cf. abstract3a). Cf. ...
14. abstractor, n. View full entry 1584
...A person who makes an abstract of a text or document. Cf. abstracter...
15. Abwehr, n. View full entry 1945
...In Germany: a military intelligence and counter-intelligence agency (192144) founded as a division of the defence ministry, and expanded to include foreign espionage assignments in 1934 by...
16. access, n. View full entry c1300
...An attack, or the onset (of fever or disease); a repeated episode (of an intermittent or chronic disease); (esp. in early use) spec. the characteristic paroxysm...
17. accession, n. View full entry 1551
...Something which is added or joined to another thing; an augmentation. Also: a person who joins a group of others....
18. accessory, n. and adj. View full entry 1414
...Chiefly Law. A person who incites or assists someone to commit an arrestable offence, or who knowingly aids someone who has committed such an offence (opposed to principal)....
19. account, n. View full entry c1300
...Counting, reckoning, enumeration; computation, calculation; (also) a style or mode of reckoning; an amount established by counting. Now chiefly in money of account: see money2....
20. accountant, adj. and n. View full entry 1429-30
...Giving or liable to give an account (esp. of conduct or the performance of duties); accountable, responsible. Esp. in earlier use, to stand accountant. Chiefly to (a person),...
