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1. acephal, n. and adj. View full entry a1387
...Church Hist. = Acephalian Also: †a priest who is not subject to the authority of a bishop (cf. acephali1) (obs.rare). Usu. with capital...
2. adduction, n.1 View full entry a1398
...The action or process of conveying something, esp. towards another; the fact of being so conveyed. Now rare....
3. Albigenses, n. View full entry a1387
...The members of a movement formerly active in southern France, which believed in a theology of dualism with an extremely strict moral and social code. Occas. in sing.Albigensis. Cf....
4. All Saints, n. View full entry a1398
...The saints (saint2a) collectively. Cf. All-Hallows1....
5. amphisbaena, n. View full entry a1398
...A fabled serpent of the ancients, with a head at each end, and able to move in either direction: retained by the moderns as a poetical conception....
6. amˈpulla, n. View full entry a1398
...Roman Hist. The ancient vessel mentioned above....
7. aˈnointment, n. View full entry 1398
...The action or process of anointing....
8. Apocrypha, adj. and n. View full entry 1387
...Of unknown authorship; not authentic, spurious; uncanonical (see B.); false. Obs....
9. application, n. View full entry a1398
...The action of bringing something to bear upon a person or thing with practical results; the action of causing something to affect a person or thing....
10. Aquarius, n. View full entry a1398
...One of the zodiacal constellations, giving its name to the eleventh sign of the zodiac, which the sun enters on the 21st of Jan....
11. † ˈarch-ˈchanter, n. View full entry a1387
...A choir-leader, precentor....
12. Argus, n. View full entry 1387
...A mythological person fabled to have had a hundred eyes. Hence, a very vigilant person, a watcher or guardian....
13. aspiration, n. View full entry a1398
...The action of breathing into; inspiration....
14. astrology, n. View full entry a1387
...The practical application of the medieval art or science of astronomy (see astronomy1)....
15. avoidance, n. View full entry a1398
...The action of emptying a vessel, etc., or of emptying away its contents; hence, a clearing away, removal; ejection, excretion. Obs....
16. bewitched, adj. View full entry 1387
...Influenced by witchcraft; under, or having, magical influence....
17. black man, n. View full entry a1398
...A dark-skinned man, esp. a man of sub-Saharan African or Australian Aboriginal origin or descent. Also: †a dark-haired or swarthy man (obs.). Cf. black3a....
18. Boreas, n. View full entry 1398
...The north-wind; the god of the north-wind. Now only in Mythol. and in poet. or humorous personification....
19. † calk, v.1 View full entry 1398
...trans. To calculate, reckon; esp. astrologically....
20. † ˈcalking, n.1 View full entry 1398
...Calculation, computation....
