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1. abditory, n. View full entry 1658
...A safe repository for valuables; a hiding place (lit. and fig.)....
2. 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....
3. ablepsy, n. View full entry 1616
...Physical or mental blindness....
4. abode, n.1 View full entry c1225
...The action of waiting or delaying; a delay. Esp. in without abode: without delay, immediately. Obs....
5. abominate, adj. and n. View full entry 1531
...Held in abomination, detested; beastly, inhuman. Obs....
6. aboriginary, adj. and n. View full entry 1653
...Original; first or earliest as recorded by history. Cf. aboriginal1a. Obs.rare....
7. † abounder, n. View full entry 1755
...A person who abounds in something, esp. wealth; a rich person....
8. Abraham, n. View full entry c1300
...heaven; the place of rest for the souls of the righteous dead. Chiefly in Abraham's bosom....
9. abrasiveness, n. View full entry 1844
...The quality of being abrasive (lit. and fig.)....
10. abreption, n. View full entry 1550
...The action of snatching something away; sudden seizure; complete separation or removal; an instance of this....
11. abroad, adv., prep., and n. View full entry c1300
...Over a broad or wide area; widely, broadly; †so as to be fully open or outspread (obs.). In later use more commonly with reference to non-physical things, as news, information,...
12. absent, adj. and n. View full entry a1382
...Not present in a place or at an occasion; away. Freq. in predicative use....
13. abstergent, adj. and n. View full entry 1617
...Having a cleansing or abrading quality; cleansing, abrading (lit., esp. with reference to the body, and fig.). Cf. abstersive...
14. Academe, n. View full entry 1598
...orig. and chiefly literary. = academy2....
15. accent, n. View full entry OE
...Any of a set of marks originally used with a letter to indicate the nature and position of the spoken accent, later of stress, in a written word; (also) any of these...
16. accenting, n. View full entry 1538
...The placing of vocal accent or stress; the placing of musical or rhythmic stress....
17. accidia, n. View full entry OE
...= accidie (In early use freq. as a Latin name.)...
18. accidie, n. View full entry ?c1225
...Physical or mental slothfulness, esp. as a condition leading to listlessness and lack of interest in life; apathy, lethargy, torpor; (also) †an instance of this (obs.)....
19. accursed, adj. and n. View full entry c1225
...That has been cursed; lying under a curse; doomed to perdition or misery....
20. acolyteship, n. View full entry 1570
...The position or office of an acolyte (lit. and fig.)....
