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1. A, n. View full entry OE
...The letter, and the sound it represents....
2. abandonee, n. View full entry 1804
...A person to whom anything is formally or legally abandoned; spec. (in marine insurance) the underwriters to whom all interest in property insured is relinquished after a loss (cf. ...
3. 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...
4. abstinence, n. View full entry ?c1225
...The practice or discipline of resisting self-indulgence; self-restraint....
5. 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....
6. accept, v. View full entry a1382
...trans. (formerly (17th–18th centuries) also †intr. with of (obs.))....
7. acceptance, n. View full entry 1528-30
...Law. An agreement to abide by the act or contract of another, such as a predecessor in an office, by some act which amounts to a recognition or approval of it,...
8. acceptant, n. and adj. View full entry 1598
...A person who accepts or receives something; spec. (Finance) the acceptor of a bill of exchange or draft....
9. acceptation, n. View full entry c1400
...favouritism on personal grounds; undue partiality. Cf. acception2....
10. accepter, n. View full entry ?a1425
...A person who or thing which accepts or receives something. Cf. acceptor1b....
11. accepting, n. View full entry 1395
...undue partiality on personal grounds, favouritism; an instance of this. Cf. accept2....
12. acceptor, n. View full entry c1384
...= accepter of persons (also faces)accepter2....
13. accommodate, v. View full entry 1531
...trans. To apply, attribute, or ascribe (esp. words) to a person. Obs....
14. accommodation, n. View full entry 1566
...Adaptation; the process of being adapted....
15. 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....
16. accountability, n. View full entry 1750
...The quality of being accountable; liability to account for and answer for one's conduct, performance of duties, etc. (in modern use often with regard to parliamentary, corporate, or financial liability to the...
17. accountancy, n. View full entry 1699
...The art of formally recording, classifying, and interpreting financial transactions and associated events, and of calculating taxes due, esp. within the context of a business; the profession, practice, or duties of an...
18. 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),...
19. 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....
20. accountless, adj. View full entry 1649
...Free from accountableness; irresponsible. Obs.rare....
