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1. absolute, adj. (and adv.) and n. View full entry c1400
...Grammar....
2. † acate, n. View full entry ?1406
...Buying, purchasing, purchase. Also in figurative context....
3. 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....
4. acceptation, n. View full entry c1400
...favouritism on personal grounds; undue partiality. Cf. acception2....
5. accepter, n. View full entry ?a1425
...A person who or thing which accepts or receives something. Cf. acceptor1b....
6. accountant, adj. and n. View full entry 1429-30
...Giving or liable to give an account (esp. of conduct or the performance of duties); accountable, responsible. Esp. in earlier use, to stand accountant. Chiefly to (a person),...
7. accrue, v. View full entry 1440
...intr. Esp. of advantage or profit: to fall to or devolve on someone as a natural growth or increment; to come by way of addition or increase, or as an accession...
8. accumulation, n. View full entry 1490
...An accumulated mass; a heap, amount, or quantity formed by successive additions....
9. † achate, n.2 View full entry c1405
...The act of buying something. Also: an instance of this, a purchase....
10. acquire, v. View full entry a1450
...trans....
11. activity, n. View full entry a1425
...The state of being actively occupied; brisk or vigorous action; busyness, liveliness, vigour....
12. added, adj. View full entry ?a1425
...That is or has been added or added to; additional, increased, extra. Cf. superaddedsuperadd....
13. administrator, n. View full entry 1434
...Law....
14. advancer, n. View full entry 1486
...A forward-pointing branch of a deer's antlers; spec. each of those on the front edge of the palm in an adult male fallow deer (Dama dama). Obs....
15. advantage, v. View full entry ?1459
...trans. To profit, benefit (a person or thing); to advance, promote; to be of advantage to. Cf. disadvantage...
16. adventurer, n. View full entry 1466
...A person who undertakes or invests in a commercial adventure or enterprise; one who ventures capital in some project, esp. trade or settlement; a speculator. With capital initial: a member of an...
17. agent, n.1 and adj. View full entry a1500
...A person who or thing which acts upon someone or something; one who or that which exerts power; the doer of an action. Sometimes contrasted with the patient (instrument...
18. aggregate, adj. and n. View full entry c1400
...Constituted by the collection of many particles or units into one body, mass, or amount; collective, whole, total....
19. agile, adj. View full entry a1500
...Able to move (esp. to climb or manoeuvre) quickly and easily; nimble, dexterous. Also fig. and in extended use....
20. agility, n. View full entry a1425
...Theol. The ability to move quickly from place to place and to levitate, one of the four endowments of the glorified human body (regarded also as an attribute of Jesus). ...
