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1. A, n. View full entry OE
...The letter, and the sound it represents....
2. abduce, v. View full entry 1537
...trans. = abduct2a. Now chiefly U.S....
3. abduction, n. View full entry 1623
...The action of leading or drawing something away; an instance of this. Obs....
4. abductive, adj. View full entry 1803
...Characterized by leading or drawing away; tending toward withdrawal or removal. Now rare....
5. absolute, adj. (and adv.) and n. View full entry c1400
...Grammar....
6. absolutely, adv. and int. View full entry ?a1425
...To the fullest extent; in the highest degree; entirely, wholly, utterly. In later use freq. as simple intensifier....
7. absolutistic, adj. View full entry 1841
...Of or relating to absolutism (in various senses); = absolutist...
8. absurd, adj. and n. View full entry 1531
...Of a thing: against or without reason or propriety; incongruous, unreasonable, illogical....
9. absurdist, n. and adj. View full entry 1894
...A person who behaves in an illogical or absurd manner. rare....
10. academic, n. and adj. View full entry lOE
...Philos. Usu. with capital initial. An ancient philosopher of the Academy, the school of Plato and his followers; an adherent of the philosophical school of Plato; a Platonist....
11. academical, adj. and n. View full entry 1549
...Philos. Also with capital initial. = academic1. Now rare....
12. academicism, n. View full entry 1610
...Philos. Usu. with capital initial....
13. academist, n. View full entry ?1649
...= academician2....
14. Academite, n. View full entry 1572
...Perh.: = academic1. Obs.rare....
15. accidence, n.1 View full entry a1393
...Chance, unforeseen or unexpected eventuality; (contextually) mishap, fortuitous circumstance. Also: an occurrence of this type. Freq. in prepositional phrases, as by accidence. Cf. accident5a....
16. accidental, adj., n., and adv. View full entry 1387-8
...Not essential to the existence of a thing; not necessarily present, incidental, secondary, subsidiary....
17. acroama, n. View full entry 1579
...Originally Ancient Greek Philos. Oral teaching heard only by initiated disciples; esoteric doctrines....
18. activism, n. View full entry 1856
...= actinism1. rare....
19. activist, adj. and n. View full entry 1908
...Philos. Of or relating to the theory of activism (activism2)....
20. acturience, n. View full entry a1866
...Desire to act....
