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1. abaser, n. View full entry 1587
...A person who, or thing which, abases....
2. abbreviate, n. View full entry 1531
...Chiefly Sc. A condensed account of something; an abridgement; a summary; an abstract. Now Sc. Law: a brief notice registering a decree of adjudication (adjudication3a)...
3. ABC, n.1 View full entry c1325
...The alphabet. Freq. with reference to the teaching or learning of this, now esp. in to know one's ABC. Also in pl. in same sense....
4. abode, n.1 View full entry c1225
...The action of waiting or delaying; a delay. Esp. in without abode: without delay, immediately. Obs....
5. † aboutspeech, n. View full entry a1522
...A roundabout phrase, a circumlocution....
6. above, adv., prep., n., and adj. View full entry lOE
...With regard to writing: further up on the present page; previously in the text; in a preceding paragraph, passage, etc. See also senses C. 3, D....
7. above ground, adv. and adj. View full entry a1393
...Above the ground. Opposed to underground1a....
8. abridge, n. View full entry 1611
...Abridgement, shortening. Obs....
9. abridged, adj. View full entry a1382
...Shortened, cut short; limited, curtailed....
10. abridgedly, adv. View full entry 1704
...In an abridged form; concisely, in brief....
11. abridger, n. View full entry 1555
...A person who makes an abridgement; a summarizer, a compiler. Also: a person who or thing which curtails or reduces something....
12. abruptness, n. View full entry 1585
...Disjointedness, esp. of literary style; lack of fluency; (more generally) the presence of breaks or discontinuities; unevenness, ruggedness, roughness. Cf. abrupt2. Obs....
13. absolute pitch, n. View full entry 1721
...A fixed standard of pitch determined by the frequency of vibration....
14. abstract-concrete, adj. View full entry 1864
...Of or relating to both the abstract and the concrete; having both abstract and concrete characteristics....
15. abstracter, n. View full entry 1678
...A person who makes an abstract of a text or document. In early use also: a person who extracts or copies text from another work (cf. abstract3a). Cf. ...
16. abstract expressionism, n. View full entry 1922
...A form of art, typically painting, in which techniques of abstraction are used to convey strong emotional or expressive content; spec. = action paintingaction1....
17. abstract expressionist, n. and adj. View full entry 1929
...A practitioner or exponent of abstract expressionism; (sometimes) spec. = action painteraction1....
18. abstract impressionism, n. View full entry 1950
...Painting which combines characteristics of abstraction and impressionism; esp. a form of painting which resembles the works of the Impressionists, esp. Monet, in brushwork and effect, but has no representational...
19. abstract impressionist, n. and adj. View full entry 1949
...A painter whose work combines characteristics of abstraction and impressionism; spec. a practitioner or exponent of abstract impressionism....
20. abstractionism, n. View full entry 1842
...Usu. somewhat depreciative. The presentation of ideas in abstract terms; the tendency to favour abstract explanations and theories while ignoring or paying insufficient attention to concrete details or particular instances....
