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1. A, n. View full entry OE
...The letter, and the sound it represents....
2. accommodation, n. View full entry 1566
...Adaptation; the process of being adapted....
3. action, n. View full entry a1393
...Something done or performed, a deed, an act; (in pl.) habitual or ordinary deeds, conduct....
4. affectual, adj. View full entry 1483
...Earnest, ardent, eager. Obs....
5. affectually, adv. View full entry c1425
...With eager desire, earnestly; = affectionately1. Obs....
6. age, n. View full entry c1275
...A naturally distinct section of a person's or animal's existence; a particular period or stage of life. Often with defining word or phrase specifying the stage....
7. age mate, n. View full entry 1582
...A person of the same age, or belonging to the same age group; a contemporary, a peer....
8. alloparent, n. View full entry 1975
...An adult animal or person involved in parent-like care of an individual which is not his or her offspring....
9. antisocial, adj. View full entry 1797
...Opposed to sociality, averse to society or companionship....
10. behavioural | behavioral, adj. View full entry a1927
...Concerned with, or forming part of, behaviour....
11. biosociological, adj. View full entry 1894
...Involving both biological and sociological factors; (also) of or relating to biosociology....
12. biosociology, n. View full entry 1897
...The study of how interacting social and biological factors influence human behaviour; spec. a branch of study which uses knowledge or methods from the life sciences to analyse and interpret...
13. clientelism, n. View full entry 1913
...A social or administrative system which depends upon relationships of patronage, favouritism, and self-interested exchange; a political culture which emphasizes or exploits such relationships; the practice of such relations....
14. clientelistic, adj. View full entry 1961
...Characterized by, employing, or arising from clientelism....
15. clientism, n. View full entry 1799
...A social, administrative, or political system which depends upon relationships of patronage; = clientelism...
16. cliometrics, n. View full entry 1960
...With sing. concord. A technique for the interpretation of economic history, based on the statistical analysis of large-scale numerical data from population censuses, parish registers, and similar sources....
17. communitarian, n. View full entry 1842
...An advocate of communitarianism (communitarianism1); a member of a community, esp. one practising communitarianism....
18. communitarian, adj. View full entry 1840
...That is based on, or organized according to, the principles of communitarianism; that advocates or practises communitarianism (communitarianism1)....
19. communitarianism, n. View full entry 1840
...A theory or system of social organization based on the creation of small self-governing (and freq. self-sufficient) communities; advocacy or practice of such a system. Now chiefly hist....
20. contextualize, v. View full entry 1934
...trans. To place in, or treat as part of, a context; spec. to study (phonemes, words, etc.) in contexts....
