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1. aberration, n. View full entry 1588
...A deviation or departure from what is normal, usual, or expected, typically an unwelcome one. Also as a mass noun: deviation, abnormality, departure from the norm....
2. abominate, adj. and n. View full entry 1531
...Held in abomination, detested; beastly, inhuman. Obs....
3. abrenounce, v. View full entry 1537
...trans. To renounce completely, to repudiate....
4. abreption, n. View full entry 1550
...The action of snatching something away; sudden seizure; complete separation or removal; an instance of this....
5. abrupted, adj. View full entry 1597
...Chiefly formal and literary. Suddenly broken off; cut short, curtailed; cut off; truncated....
6. absinthial, adj. View full entry c1540
...Of, relating to, or suggestive of wormwood; (fig.) bitter, harsh....
7. Academe, n. View full entry 1598
...orig. and chiefly literary. = academy2....
8. accent, v. View full entry 1530
...intr. To place the accent or stress in a word or musical phrase; to mark a rhythm or beat. Usu. with adverb or adverbial phrase. In later use chiefly U.S....
9. accenting, n. View full entry 1538
...The placing of vocal accent or stress; the placing of musical or rhythmic stress....
10. Acherontic, adj. (and n.) View full entry 1597
...Of or relating to Acheron (see Acheron); infernal, hellish; dark, gloomy. Also as ...
11. acolyteship, n. View full entry 1570
...The position or office of an acolyte (lit. and fig.)....
12. aconite, n. View full entry 1569
...Any of various poisonous Eurasian plants constituting the genus Aconitum (family Ranunculaceae), having spikes of hooded flowers, formerly (and sometimes still) used as a poison or for medicinal...
13. † acraze, v. View full entry 1549
...trans. To weaken, impair, or enfeeble....
14. adead, adj. View full entry 1581
...Dead....
15. Adrian, adj. View full entry 1575
...= Adriatic...
16. adry, adv. and adj. View full entry 1578
...In a dry or thirsty condition. poet. in later use....
17. adulterate, adj. View full entry ?a1509
...Debased or made impure by intermixture or admixture; = adulterated2....
18. adumbrate, v. View full entry 1537
...trans. orig. Theol. To represent beforehand by a figure or type; to be an early indication or version of; to foreshadow. Also: to symbolize....
19. adusted, adj. View full entry 1547
...= adust1a. Now hist. and rare....
20. aeon | eon, n. View full entry 1581
...In Gnostic theology: any of a number of emanations of God, taking part in the creation and government of the universe....
