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1. Aaronite, n. and adj. View full entry a1382
...A descendant or follower of Aaron; a member of the Jewish priesthood. Cf. Aaron...
2. absent, adj. and n. View full entry a1382
...Not present in a place or at an occasion; away. Freq. in predicative use....
3. Adar, n. View full entry a1382
...In the Jewish calendar: the sixth month of the civil and twelfth of the religious year, consisting of 29 days and usually coinciding with parts of February and March; (also) an intercalary...
4. † aggrege, v. View full entry a1382
...trans. To make heavy; to weigh down....
5. agony, n. View full entry c1384
...Christian Church. In sing. and pl. The mental struggle or anguish of Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane (Matthew 26: 36–46)....
6. alien, adj. and n. View full entry a1382
...Belonging to another person, place, or family; not of one's own; from elsewhere, foreign....
7. allegory, n. View full entry c1384
...The use of symbols in a story, picture, etc., to convey a hidden or ulterior meaning, typically a moral or political one; symbolic representation. Also: the interpretation of this....
8. amice, n.1 View full entry a1382
...gen. A cloth for wrapping round, a scarf, handkerchief, or other loose wrap. Obs....
9. annual, adj. and n. View full entry a1382
...Of or belonging to the year; reckoned, payable, or engaged by the year; yearly....
10. Apollyon, n. View full entry 1382
...The destroyer, a name given to the Devil....
11. apply, v. View full entry c1384
...trans....
12. Assidaean | Assidean | Assidian, n. View full entry c1384
...One of those Jews who, under the leadership of Mattathias, defended the purity of their worship against the attempts of Antiochus Epiphanes to introduce idolatry....
13. Baal, n. View full entry 1382
...The chief male deity of the Phœnician and Canaanitish nations; hence, transf. false god....
14. believing, n.1 View full entry c1384
...The action or fact of having belief, or of having belief in a thing or person; possession of religious faith, confidence, or trust; the accepting of the truth, accuracy, reliability, genuineness, virtue,...
15. Boanerges, n. View full entry 1382
...The name given by Christ to the two sons of Zebedee. Hence, often as a sing. (pl. -es, -esses), a loud vociferous preacher or orator....
16. burnt | burned, adj. View full entry a1382
...Set on fire, consumed with fire....
17. burnt ˈoffering | burnt-ˈoffering, n. View full entry 1382
...A sacrifice offered to a deity by burning. (As the word is chiefly familiar in Scriptural use, it naturally suggests in the first place the animal sacrifices of the Jews.)...
18. Canaanite, n.1 View full entry 1382
...A native of Canaan. fig. ‘No true Israelite’....
19. canopy, n. View full entry a1382
...A covering or hangings suspended over a throne, couch, bed, etc., or held over a person walking in procession....
20. caster, n. View full entry a1382
...One who casts, in various senses of the verb....
