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1. Aaron's bells, n. View full entry 1581
...Originally: the small bells attached to the hem of Aaron's ephod (see quot. 1611 in etymology). In later use also: small bells used as Torah scroll ornaments. Also fig....
2. abbeyed, adj. View full entry 1828
...Provided with an abbey or abbeys....
3. abbey-lubber, n. View full entry 1528
...At the English Reformation, a derogatory term for: a monk living in idleness and self-indulgence....
4. † abbotric, n. View full entry OE
...The benefice or jurisdiction of an abbot or abbess; an abbacy. Also: an abbey....
5. abbotship, n. View full entry c1450
...The position or office of abbot or (formerly) †abbess; the benefice of an abbot. Cf. abbacy1....
6. Abelonian, n. View full entry 1572
...= Abelite...
7. Abominable Snowman, n. View full entry 1921
...= yeti...
8. absentee, n. and adj. View full entry 1537
...A landowner who resides abroad or at a distance from his or her estate; (formerly also) a clergyman who is habitually absent from his parish. Also more generally: a person who is...
9. † absoil, v. View full entry 1440
...trans. To absolve, esp. from sin; = assoilI....
10. absolutism, n. View full entry 1753
...Theol. The doctrine of God's absolute sovereignty, esp. that salvation is preordained absolutely; the doctrine of predestination....
11. absolutization, n. View full entry 1863
...The action or an act of making something absolute....
12. absolvable, adj. View full entry 1680
...Capable of being absolved; deserving absolution or acquittal....
13. † absolvant, n. View full entry 1502
...A person who absolves someone....
14. absolver, n. View full entry 1582
...A person who absolves someone or something (in various senses of the verb); esp. a priest or minister....
15. abstainer, n. View full entry c1475
...A person who abstains; esp. one who abstains from eating particular foods....
16. abthanage, n. View full entry 1862
...= abthanery...
17. abthanery, n. View full entry 1796
...An abbacy; the territory and jurisdiction of an abbot; the secular jurisdiction of what were previously abbatial lands. Also: the jurisdiction of an abthane1....
18. abye, v. View full entry OE
...trans. To buy, purchase (something); to pay a price for (something); to obtain (something) at the cost of labour or suffering. Also (and in earliest use) Theol.: to redeem,...
19. accommodation, n. View full entry 1566
...Adaptation; the process of being adapted....
20. accurse, v. View full entry lOE
...trans. = curse (in various senses)....
