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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. abominate, adj. and n. View full entry 1531
...Held in abomination, detested; beastly, inhuman. Obs....
5. abreption, n. View full entry 1550
...The action of snatching something away; sudden seizure; complete separation or removal; an instance of this....
6. abrupt, v. View full entry 1634
...trans. To break off, to sever; to interrupt suddenly; to curtail....
7. abrupted, adj. View full entry 1597
...Chiefly formal and literary. Suddenly broken off; cut short, curtailed; cut off; truncated....
8. abscind, v. View full entry 1610
...trans. To cut off; to separate, detach. Now rare and literary....
9. absent, adj. and n. View full entry a1382
...Not present in a place or at an occasion; away. Freq. in predicative use....
10. absinthial, adj. View full entry c1540
...Of, relating to, or suggestive of wormwood; (fig.) bitter, harsh....
11. absinthian, adj. View full entry a1635
...Of, relating to, or suggestive of wormwood; bitter, harsh. In later use also: of or relating to absinthe and its properties (esp. its yellow-green colour)....
12. 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...
13. absterse, v. View full entry ?a1425
...trans. = absterge (lit. and fig.)....
14. Academe, n. View full entry 1598
...orig. and chiefly literary. = academy2....
15. † acale, adj. View full entry c1300
...Cold (lit. and fig.); frozen....
16. 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...
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. accumulate, v. View full entry c1487
...trans. To heap up in a mass, to pile up (lit. and fig.); to amass, collect, or accrue (esp. wealth or possessions)....
20. acerb, adj. View full entry a1616
...Of food or flavour: astringently sour or harsh-tasting....
