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1. A, n. View full entry OE
...The letter, and the sound it represents....
2. abandonee, n. View full entry 1804
...A person to whom anything is formally or legally abandoned; spec. (in marine insurance) the underwriters to whom all interest in property insured is relinquished after a loss (cf. ...
3. abdicate, v. View full entry 1532
...trans. To proclaim or declare to be no longer one's own; to disown, cast off; esp. to disown or disinherit a child. Obs. (hist. in...
4. abecedarium, n. View full entry OE
...The alphabet; esp. (in early use) the Roman alphabet as opposed to the Greek; (in later use) an alphabet belonging to an ancient writing system, or an inscription of this;...
5. absolute, adj. (and adv.) and n. View full entry c1400
...Grammar....
6. absorption, n. View full entry 1597
...The action or process of swallowing up or engulfing a material thing; an instance of this. Obs....
7. abstinence, n. View full entry ?c1225
...The practice or discipline of resisting self-indulgence; self-restraint....
8. ABTA | Abta, n. View full entry 1950
...The Association of British Travel Agents, established in 1950....
9. 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,...
10. acatallactic, n. and adj. View full entry 1842
...A matter unconnected with exchange, esp. of money. Obs.rare....
11. † acate, n. View full entry ?1406
...Buying, purchasing, purchase. Also in figurative context....
12. acceleration, n. View full entry 1490
...The action or process of accelerating or causing something to accelerate; speeding up; quickening. Also: an instance of this....
13. accept, v. View full entry a1382
...trans. (formerly (17th–18th centuries) also †intr. with of (obs.))....
14. acceptance, n. View full entry 1528-30
...Law. An agreement to abide by the act or contract of another, such as a predecessor in an office, by some act which amounts to a recognition or approval of it,...
15. acceptant, n. and adj. View full entry 1598
...A person who accepts or receives something; spec. (Finance) the acceptor of a bill of exchange or draft....
16. acceptation, n. View full entry c1400
...favouritism on personal grounds; undue partiality. Cf. acception2....
17. accepter, n. View full entry ?a1425
...A person who or thing which accepts or receives something. Cf. acceptor1b....
18. accepting, n. View full entry 1395
...undue partiality on personal grounds, favouritism; an instance of this. Cf. accept2....
19. acceptor, n. View full entry c1384
...= accepter of persons (also faces)accepter2....
20. access, n. View full entry c1300
...An attack, or the onset (of fever or disease); a repeated episode (of an intermittent or chronic disease); (esp. in early use) spec. the characteristic paroxysm...
