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1. abacus, n. View full entry a1387
...A board or tray strewn with sand in which numbers, letters, diagrams, etc., can be traced and erased. Cf. sandboard1, sand-table(a)sand2a. Now rare...
2. abaton, n. View full entry 1829
...A place to which access is restricted, esp. a sacred space or enclosure; a sanctuary....
3. abdicate, v. View full entry 1532
...trans. To proclaim or declare to be no longer one's own; to disown, cast off; esp. to disown or disinherit a child. Obs. (hist. in...
4. abdication, n. View full entry 1552
...The action or practice of formally disowning or casting off a person, esp. one's child. Chiefly hist., with reference to ancient Greek and Roman law....
5. aberemurder, n. View full entry 1647
...Deliberate, premeditated murder....
6. abolla, n. View full entry 1700
...In the ancient Roman world: a kind of thick cloak, worn by peasants, soldiers, and others (and, as an affectation, by philosophers)....
7. abri, n. View full entry 1761
...A shelter, a refuge....
8. absolute, adj. (and adv.) and n. View full entry c1400
...Grammar....
9. absolution, n. View full entry OE
...Christian Church....
10. Acarnanian, n. and adj. View full entry 1550
...A native or inhabitant of Acarnania, an ancient region of north-west Greece bordering the Ionian Sea....
11. acceptilation, n. View full entry c1538
...Release from a debt by an acquittance without payment; an instance of this. Formerly also fig.: †free remission of sins (obs.)....
12. accusative, adj. and n. View full entry c1400
...Grammar....
13. acephali, n. View full entry OE
...Priests who are not subject to the authority of a bishop. Also: bishops who are not subject to the authority of a metropolitan or archbishop. Obs.rare....
14. acetable, n. View full entry c1429
...Roman Hist. = acetabulum1....
15. acetabulum, n. View full entry a1398
...Roman Hist.A cup to hold condiments, esp. vinegar, for serving at the table.A measure of capacity for liquids and dry granular substances, equal to one-eighth of a sextary (sextary...
16. Achaean, n. and adj. View full entry 1550
...A native or inhabitant of Achaea, a region of ancient Greece on the north coast of the Peloponnese....
17. Achaemenian, adj. and n. View full entry 1661
...= Achaemenid...
18. Achaemenid, n. and adj. View full entry 1601
...A member of the dynasty that ruled in ancient Persia from the time of Cyrus the Great (d. 529 b.c.) until the death of Darius III (330 b.c.)....
19. acherset, n. View full entry 1701
...A measure of corn used in medieval England (see quots.)....
20. † achete, n. View full entry a1325
...The reversion of property to a lord on the owner's dying without legal heirs; escheat; (also) the right to claim such escheated property. Cf. achete...
