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1. A, n. View full entry OE
...The letter, and the sound it represents....
2. 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...
3. absolute, adj. (and adv.) and n. View full entry c1400
...Grammar....
4. accommodation, n. View full entry 1566
...Adaptation; the process of being adapted....
5. account, n. View full entry c1300
...Counting, reckoning, enumeration; computation, calculation; (also) a style or mode of reckoning; an amount established by counting. Now chiefly in money of account: see money2....
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. accounting, n. View full entry a1387
...The action or process of reckoning, counting, or computing; numeration, computation, calculation; (also) an instance of this. Occas. in extended uses. Now chiefly in sense 1b....
8. accumulative, adj. View full entry 1641
...Formed by or arising from accumulation; increasing or designed to increase by successive additions; cumulative....
9. ace, n.1 and adj. (and int.) View full entry ?a1300
...A single point in a game, and related uses....
10. acker, n.2 View full entry 1937
...A piastre. hist. in later use....
11. acquit, v. View full entry ?c1225
...trans....
12. acquittance, n. View full entry 1394
...A document showing that a debt has been paid; a receipt in full, barring further demand for payment; a written or printed release. Now hist....
13. 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...
14. action, n. View full entry a1393
...Something done or performed, a deed, an act; (in pl.) habitual or ordinary deeds, conduct....
15. active, adj. and n. View full entry 1340
...Of a way or style of life: characterized by outward action rather than inward contemplation or speculation; practical. Esp. in active life, and chiefly in religious contexts. Opposed to ...
16. actual, adj. and n. View full entry c1350
...Chiefly Theol. Characteristic of or relating to acts or action; exhibited in or arising from deeds; practical, active. Now chiefly in actual grace and actual sin....
17. advance, n. and adj. View full entry a1400
...The action of extolling or lauding something; ostentation, boasting. Cf. advancement2. Obs....
18. adventure, n. View full entry ?c1225
...A chance occurrence or event, an accident. Obs....
19. 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...
20. advice, n. View full entry c1300
...The view which a person holds in regard to a given matter; opinion, judgement, assessment. Also: the action of adopting a particular view or opinion; decision; (occas.) an opinion. Obs....
