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1. A, n. View full entry OE
...The letter, and the sound it represents....
2. 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...
3. academical, adj. and n. View full entry 1549
...Philos. Also with capital initial. = academic1. Now rare....
4. academy, n. View full entry a1382
...With capital initial....
5. 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...
6. accessit, n. View full entry 1753
...In France: an honourable mention in an examination or competition. Also with preceding ordinal number denoting position in a series of such acknowledgements. Cf. proxime accessit...
7. accidence, n.2 View full entry c1434
...The branch of grammar which deals with the inflection of words, grammatical morphology; †an inflected form (obs.); (also) a book or treatise on the fundamentals of grammar (now hist....
8. act, n. View full entry a1382
...In pl., with capital initial, and freq. with the. More fully Acts of the Apostles. (The name of) one of the books of the New Testament...
9. admittatur, n. View full entry 1683
...A document verifying a student's admission to a college....
10. advanced, adj. View full entry c1460
...Promoted to an ecclesiastical living. Cf. advance2a. Obs....
11. adventure, n. View full entry ?c1225
...A chance occurrence or event, an accident. Obs....
12. adviser, n. View full entry c1536
...Usu. with of. A person who advises a particular course of action, measure, etc.; an advocate, a proponent. Now rare....
13. all, adj., pron., and n., adv., and conj. View full entry eOE
...With singular noun. The whole amount, quantity, extent, or compass of; the whole of....
14. alpha, n. and adj. View full entry ?c1200
...(The name of) the first letter (Α, α) of the Greek alphabet, corresponding to English a....
15. alphabet, n. View full entry ?a1475
...A set of letters arranged in a conventional order used in a particular writing system; esp. (with the) the set of 26 letters from A to Z used...
16. † alterage, n. View full entry ?c1450
...In Ireland: the nursing and raising of another's child; such a system of fostering. Cf. fosterage2....
17. apprentice, n. and adj. View full entry 1362
...A learner of a craft; one who is bound by legal agreement to serve an employer in the exercise of some handicraft, art, trade, or profession, for a certain number of years,...
18. art, n.1 View full entry c1300
...Skill in doing something, esp. as the result of knowledge or practice....
19. articled, adj. View full entry 1545
...Formulated or set out in articles; specified, stated. Now chiefly with specifying word....
20. artificial, adj. and n. View full entry a1398
...Of a thing: made or constructed by human skill, esp. in imitation of, or as a substitute for, something which is made or occurs naturally; man-made....
