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1. accentor, n. View full entry 1656
...Music. A person who performs the treble part in a trio or choir. Cf. incentor2succentor1b. Obs....
2. alazony, n. View full entry 1656
...Pride, arrogance. Obs.rare....
3. ambagious, adj. View full entry 1656
...Full of ambages:...
4. anaglyphic, adj. and n. View full entry 1656
...Of or pertaining to anaglyphs; anaglyptic....
5. anaglyptic, adj. and n. View full entry 1656
...Of or pertaining to anaglyphs, or to the art of carving in low relief, embossing, etc....
6. antiphonary, n. View full entry 1670
...A book containing a set or collection of antiphons....
7. † aphoˈristical, adj. View full entry 1661
...= aphoristic...
8. arabesque, adj. and n. View full entry 1656
...Arabian, Arabic....
9. Asclepiad, n.1 View full entry 1656
...In Greek and Latin prosody: A verse, invented by Asclepiades, consisting of a spondee, two (or three) choriambi, and an iambus. Also attrib....
10. assonate, v. View full entry 1656
...To correspond in sound, esp. in vowel-sound; to rhyme in assonance....
11. † ˈbarbitist, n. View full entry 1656
...A player on the barbiton....
12. burlesque, adj. and n. View full entry 1656
...Droll in look, manner or speech; jocular; odd, grotesque. Obs....
13. cacophony, n. View full entry 1656
...The quality of having an ill sound; the use of harsh-sounding words or phrases. (The opposite of euphony.)...
14. catachrestic, adj. View full entry 1656
...Of the nature of catachresis; wrongly used, misapplied, wrested from its proper meaning....
15. catastasis, n. View full entry 1656
...(See quots.) This sense not in Greek or Latin....
16. Celtic, adj. and n. View full entry 1656
...Hist. and Archaeol. Of or belonging to the ancient Celtæ and their presumed congeners....
17. circumambulate, v. View full entry 1656
...trans. To walk round about....
18. diagraphic, adj. View full entry 1656
...Of or pertaining to drawing or graphic representation....
19. diaphony, n. View full entry 1656
...In etymol. sense: Discord. Obs....
20. dicaeology, n. View full entry 1656
...A description or account of jurisdiction. Obs....
