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1. ambassador | embassador, n. View full entry c1374
...An official messenger sent (singly, or as one of a party) by or to a sovereign or public body; an envoy, commissioner, or representative. esp....
2. † amˈbassadry, n. View full entry c1386
...The office or function of an ambassador; ambassadorship....
3. army, n. View full entry c1386
...An armed expedition by sea or land. Obs....
4. audience, n. View full entry c1374
...The action of hearing; attention to what is spoken. to give audience: to give ear, listen....
5. bribery, n. View full entry c1386
...Purloining, larceny, theft, robbery. Obs....
6. carriage, n. View full entry c1386
...Carrying or bearing from one place to another; conveyance....
7. centre | center, n. and adj. View full entry c1374
...The point round which a circle is described; the middle point of a circle or sphere, equally distant from all points on the circumference....
8. closure, n. View full entry c1386
...That which encloses, shuts in, or confines; a fence, wall, barrier, case, cover, setting, etc. Obs....
9. commit, v. View full entry c1386
...trans. To give to some one to take care of, keep, or deal with; to give in charge or trust, entrust, consign to (a person, his care, judgement, etc.)....
10. commonality, n. View full entry c1374
...A community, commonwealth; = commonalty1. Obs....
11. † conˈfeder, v. View full entry c1368
...trans. To unite in alliance; to ally, league, confederate. Const. to, unto, with, together....
12. consular, adj. and n. View full entry c1374
...Of, pertaining to, or of the nature of the Roman consuls, or (in recent history) the French consulate of 17991804....
13. contagious, adj. View full entry c1374
...Of the nature of or characterized by contagion; communicating disease or corruption by contact; infectious. Also fig....
14. dissolve, v. View full entry c1374
...To loosen or put asunder the parts of; to reduce to its formative elements; to destroy the physical integrity; to disintegrate, decompose. (Now rare or Obs. exc. as...
15. divide, v. View full entry c1374
...To separate (a thing) into parts, or (a number or collective body) into smaller groups; to split up, cleave; to break or cut asunder....
16. division, n. View full entry c1374
...The action of dividing or state of being divided into parts or branches; partition, severance....
17. Ecclesiast, n. View full entry c1386
...‘The Preacher’, i.e. Solomon considered as the author of the Book of Ecclesiastes. In first quot. applied to the author of Ecclesiasticus, the reference being to xxxiii. 19....
18. fraction, n. View full entry c1400
...The action of breaking:...
19. habitation, n. View full entry c1374
...The action of dwelling in or inhabiting as a place of residence; occupancy by inhabitants....
20. imperial, adj. and n. View full entry c1374
...Of or pertaining to an empire, or to the empire in question; orig. belonging to the ancient Roman imperium or Empire; hence, to the Holy Roman (or German)...
