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1. aberemurder, n. View full entry 1647
...Deliberate, premeditated murder....
2. ab inconvenienti, adv. View full entry 1606
...From the inconvenience or difficulty involved (used with reference to an argument opposing a proposition on the grounds that it would cause hardship, inconvenience, or some other negative consequence)....
3. abintestate, adv. View full entry 1658
...= ab intestato; (also occas.) intestate, without having made a will....
4. ab intestato, adv. View full entry 1613
...From an intestate person, by intestacy (used with reference to matters of succession or inheritance)....
5. abjudication, n. View full entry 1623
...The action or an act of taking away by judicial decision. Also: the action of passing judgement against a person or thing....
6. abrogator, n. View full entry a1602
...A person who or (occas.) thing which abrogates something....
7. 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. ...
8. † abuser, n.2 View full entry a1616
...Misuse of a franchise or an office granted by the monarch, esp. when it results in its forfeiture; = misuser...
9. † accessarily, adv. View full entry 1611
...= accessorily1....
10. † acclearment, n. View full entry a1670
...The action or fact of clearing one's name; exculpation....
11. accretion, n. View full entry 1615
...The process of growing by organic enlargement; continued and esp. gradual growth. Also: the amount accreted in this manner....
12. accruer, n. View full entry 1662
...The action of accruing; = accretion5(b); an instance of this; right of accruer: the right to benefit from the action of accretion, esp. in the context of...
13. accumulative, adj. View full entry 1641
...Formed by or arising from accumulation; increasing or designed to increase by successive additions; cumulative....
14. acquitted, adj. and n. View full entry 1624
...That has been acquitted, esp. of a formal charge or accusation, exonerated. Also: that has been granted acquittance (acquittance5)....
15. actionable, adj. View full entry a1601
...Giving cause for legal action....
16. actionize, v. View full entry 1614
...trans. To act upon; to put into action....
17. † actitation, n. View full entry 1661
...Law. The action or an act of debating a cause....
18. ad damnum, adv. and n. View full entry 1647
...With respect to the harm or loss suffered by the plaintiff. Now rare....
19. addressor, n. View full entry 1658
...Polit. = addresser1. hist. in later use....
20. adducer, n. View full entry 1681
...A person who adduces a †witness (obs.), fact, statement, etc....
