Browse dictionary
Showing 1-20 of 603 results in 603 entries
1. † acceptilate, v. View full entry 1880
...trans. To discharge (a debt) by an acquittance without payment. Cf. acceptilation...
2. aceramic, adj. (and n.) View full entry 1961
...Of a culture, esp. an early Neolithic culture: lacking pottery. Also: of or relating to such a culture. Also occas. as (with the)....
3. † achete, n. View full entry a1325
...The reversion of property to a lord on the owner's dying without legal heirs; escheat; (also) the right to claim such escheated property. Cf. achete...
4. addict, v. View full entry 1534
...trans.Roman Law. To deliver or hand over formally (a person or thing) in accordance with a judicial decision; cf. addiction4. Also intr., fig....
5. adlect, v. View full entry 1914
...trans. To select or promote (a person) by adlection. Freq. with to, into. Cf. adlection...
6. adrogated, adj. View full entry 1812
...Of a person: adopted when not subject to the legal power of another. Also in postpositive use. Cf. sui jurisa....
7. adrogating, adj. View full entry 1880
...That adrogates....
8. aedileship, n. View full entry 1541
...The office of an aedile; (also) the duration of the term of office of an aedile....
9. afforcement, n. View full entry 1642
...= afforciament1. Obs....
10. afterbirth, n. View full entry 1527
...The placenta and remains of the fetal membranes, which are normally expelled from the uterus after the delivery of the fetus; = secundine1. Cf. earlier afterburden1....
11. after-born, adj. and n. View full entry OE
...Chiefly Law. Of a child: born after the father's death, or after the execution of the father's will (cf. posthumous2). Also (Roman Law): born after...
12. † agild, adj. View full entry OE
...Of a dead person: without payment of compensation or wergild (see wergild), unpaid for. Esp. in to lie agild....
13. agonist, n. View full entry 1573
...App.: a religious scholar. Obs.rare....
14. agonistics, n. View full entry 1656
...With sing. concord. The theory of agonistic rhetoric; agonistic argument. Cf. agonistic1....
15. alignment, n. View full entry 1742
...The result of arranging in or along a line, or into appropriate relative positions; the layout or orientation of a thing or things disposed in this way. Also: a group of things...
16. All-Father, n. View full entry ?1790
...Chiefly with the. The father of all, the universal father; a name given to various supreme gods, esp. when considered as creator or progenitor of the human race, spec....
17. † all-hood, n. View full entry 1722
...Absolute ownership; entire estate (estate11a). Chiefly in the context of feudal property. Cf. allodium...
18. Altithermal, adj. (and n.) View full entry 1948
...Designating a period of the Holocene, between about 7500 and 5500 years ago, when the western United States was relatively warm; of or relating to this period. Also as : this...
19. ancient history, n. View full entry 1566
...The events of antiquity; spec. the history of the ancient civilizations of the Mediterranean area and the Near East up to the fall of the Western Roman Empire in ...
20. Anglo-French, n. and adj. View full entry 1796
...With the and pl. concord. English supporters of the French interest during the French Revolutionary Wars of 17921802, considered collectively. Obs.rare....
