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1. A, n. View full entry OE
...The letter, and the sound it represents....
2. abhorrence, n. View full entry 1592
...The condition of abhorring or recoiling from something; detestation, hatred, repugnance. Also: a feeling of repugnance or loathing....
3. abhorrer, n. View full entry ?1538
...A person who loathes or detests something. Freq. with of....
4. abjuration, n. View full entry ?a1439
...Renunciation on oath; forswearing, esp. of heretical opinions; (also) an instance of this. Now chiefly hist....
5. 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...
6. absolute, adj. (and adv.) and n. View full entry c1400
...Grammar....
7. absolutist, n. and adj. View full entry 1799
...Polit. A supporter or advocate of absolute government. Also: a person who rules or governs absolutely....
8. abstractionist, n. and adj. View full entry 1832
...A person who prefers to view, analyse, and discuss the world in abstract rather than practical terms; a thinker who gives precedence to abstract ideas and concepts over concrete and particular ones....
9. 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...
10. acclamation, n. View full entry 1541
...An act of acclaiming; an exclamation or other expression of sentiment addressed to someone in a loud voice....
11. act, n. View full entry a1382
...In pl., with capital initial, and freq. with the. More fully Acts of the Apostles. (The name of) one of the books of the New Testament...
12. action, n. View full entry a1393
...Something done or performed, a deed, an act; (in pl.) habitual or ordinary deeds, conduct....
13. activist, adj. and n. View full entry 1908
...Philos. Of or relating to the theory of activism (activism2)....
14. Act of Parliament, n. View full entry 1456
...Originally: a law made by the British monarch with the advice of Parliament (now hist.). In later use: a statute passed by a parliament....
15. address, v. View full entry a1325
...trans. (chiefly in pass.). To direct (a written communication) to a specific person or destination; spec. (in early use) to write and send (a writ, a petition,...
16. addresser, n. View full entry 1643
...Polit. A person who puts forward or supports a political declaration or petition (cf. address2c); spec. any of those who in 1680 presented addresses in support...
17. addressor, n. View full entry 1658
...Polit. = addresser1. hist. in later use....
18. adjourn, v. View full entry ?a1400
...trans....
19. adjutator, n. View full entry 1647
...A person empowered to act on behalf of others; spec. each of the delegates chosen to represent the private soldiers of some units of the Parliamentary army during the English...
20. advance, n. and adj. View full entry a1400
...The action of extolling or lauding something; ostentation, boasting. Cf. advancement2. Obs....
