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1. Aaronical, adj. View full entry ?1549
...Of or relating to Aaron; Aaronic....
2. † aback, n. View full entry 1592
...A square section or area, sometimes containing an inscription....
3. † abada, n. View full entry 1588
...Originally in south and south-east Asia: a rhinoceros....
4. † abail, v.2 View full entry 1513
...trans. To reach, get to....
5. abalienate, v. View full entry a1555
...trans. To estrange or alienate in feeling; to cause to feel removed or distant. Also: to remove, distance. Freq. with from. Now rare....
6. abalienation, n. View full entry 1596
...Removal or transferral of feeling; estrangement, alienation....
7. abanderado, n. View full entry 1598
...A standard-bearer....
8. † abannition, n. View full entry 1583
...An act or the action of banishing someone, usually for a year as a punishment for manslaughter....
9. † abastard, v. View full entry 1573
...trans. To corrupt, debase, make degenerate....
10. abastardize, v. View full entry 1574
...trans. To declare or render illegitimate; (hence) to make corrupt or degenerate; to debase. Cf. bastardize...
11. 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...
12. abature, n. View full entry 1575
...Chiefly in pl. The traces left by a stag in the undergrowth through which it has passed. Also fig. and in figurative contexts....
13. abbas, n. View full entry 1550
...A religious or spiritual leader; spec. an abbot. Chiefly as a title of respect....
14. abbé, n.1 View full entry 1530
...In France or French contexts: an abbot. Also: a priest or clergyman in minor orders; esp. one without an assigned ecclesiastical duty, formerly often acting as a professor, private tutor,...
15. abbreviator, n. View full entry 1529
...A person who shortens or abridges something, esp. a text; a summarizer; a compiler. Also: a person given to the use of abbreviations....
16. abbreviature, n. View full entry 1578
...An abbreviated or condensed form of a text, treatment of a subject, etc.; a brief account; an abridgement; a summary. Also fig.: a representation or embodiment of something in miniature;...
17. 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...
18. 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....
19. abdomen, n. View full entry ?1541
...Anat. and Zool. In humans and other vertebrates: the belly; the part of the trunk of body between the chest and the pelvis; the cavity of the body bounded...
20. abduce, v. View full entry 1537
...trans. = abduct2a. Now chiefly U.S....
