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1. affectual, adj. View full entry 1483
...Earnest, ardent, eager. Obs....
2. affectually, adv. View full entry c1425
...With eager desire, earnestly; = affectionately1. Obs....
3. cohort, n. View full entry 1489
...Roman Hist. A body of infantry in the Roman army, of which there were ten in a legion, each consisting of from 300 to 600 men; also applied to auxiliary troops...
4. culture, n. View full entry c1450
...The action or practice of cultivating the soil; tillage; = cultivation1. Now chiefly with of....
5. extended, adj. View full entry c1450
...Stretched out to the full. Of troops, etc.: Spread out. Of a horse's gait (see quots.); opp. collected. Cf. extend1b....
6. genitor, n.2 View full entry 1447
...A male parent, father; in pl. = parents. Now rare....
7. human, adj. and n. View full entry ?c1450
...Of the nature of the human race; that is a human, or consists of human beings; belonging to the species Homo sapiens or other (extinct) species of the genus ...
8. ideal, adj. and n. View full entry c1450
...Existing as an idea or archetype; relating to or consisting of ideas in the Platonic or theological sense: see idea1a....
9. militant, adj. and n. View full entry ?a1425
...Engaged in warfare, warring. Also: disposed towards war; warlike. Freq. metaphorically of the Church (see church militantchurch2)....
10. mobile, adj.1 View full entry 1490
...Capable of or characterized by movement; movable, not fixed or stationary. Of a person's sight: wandering, not steady. Of a celestial object: †wandering, not fixed (obs.)....
11. mobility, n.1 View full entry ?a1425
...The ability to move or to be moved; capacity for movement or change of place; movableness, portability....
12. moiety, n. View full entry 1444
...A half, one of two equal parts....
13. motherhood, n. and adj. View full entry 1459
...With possessive adjective: a title of respect for a mother. Obs....
14. non-, prefix View full entry a1420
...Prefixed to nouns of action, condition, or quality with the sense ‘absence or lack of’, often corresponding semantically to ‘not doing, failure to do’ (where a verb is implied by the noun,...
15. parentela, n. View full entry c1415
...Kinship, relationship. Obs....
16. participant, adj. and n. View full entry a1470
...That shares or partakes in something; that participates or takes part. Now rare....
17. pater, n.2 View full entry 1481
...Christian Church....
18. peasant, n. and adj. View full entry a1450
...A person who lives in the country and works on the land, esp. as a smallholder or a labourer; (chiefly Sociol.) a member of an agricultural class dependent on subsistence...
19. personality, n. and adj. View full entry a1425
...The quality, character, or fact of being a person, as distinct from an animal, thing, or abstraction; the quality which makes a being human. Obs....
20. picture, n. View full entry ?a1425
...A painting, drawing, photograph, or other visual representation on a surface; esp. such a representation as a work of art....
