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1. appearer, n. View full entry 1609
...One who or that which appears....
2. attest, n. View full entry 1609
...Evidence, testimony, witness....
3. bandit, n. View full entry 1594
...lit. One who is proscribed or outlawed; hence, a lawless desperate marauder, a brigand: usually applied to members of the organized gangs which infest the mountainous districts of Italy,...
4. † ˈbirthdom, n. View full entry a1616
...Inheritance, birthright....
5. bonded, adj. View full entry 1609
...Held, pledged, or confirmed by bond....
6. bumbailiff, n. View full entry a1616
...A contemptuous synonym of bailiff2: ‘A bailiff of the meanest kind; one that is employed in arrests’ (Johnson)....
7. † cital, n. View full entry 1598
...Law. Citing, citation, summons....
8. committed, adj. View full entry 1594
...Entrusted, delegated; put in prison; done, perpetrated, etc.: see the verb....
9. consanguineous, adj. View full entry a1616
...Of the same blood, related by blood, akin; of or pertaining to those so related....
10. court-hand, n. View full entry a1616
...The style of handwriting in use in the English law-courts until the reign of Geo. II, when it was abolished by statute....
11. crimeful, adj. View full entry 1594
...Characterized by crime; criminal....
12. defeat, n. View full entry 1600
...Undoing; ruin; act of destruction. to make defeat upon (of): to bring about the ruin or destruction of. Obs....
13. depositary, n. View full entry 1608
...A person with whom anything is lodged in trust; a trustee; one to whom anything (material or immaterial) is committed or confided. In Law, a bailee of personal property, to...
14. disbench, v. View full entry a1616
...trans. To remove or displace from a bench or seat; to unseat. Obs....
15. divest, v. View full entry a1616
...trans. To unclothe, undress, disrobe; to strip of clothing, or of any covering, ornament, etc....
16. enfranchisement, n. View full entry a1616
...Liberation from imprisonment, servitude, or political subjection. Also fig....
17. estate, v. View full entry 1600
...trans. To put (a person) into an estate; to give (a person) an estate or possession, or a secured position, in (a thing); to endow with (possessions)....
18. exhibiter, n. View full entry a1616
...One who exhibits (in various senses of the vb.). Now rare; = exhibitor...
19. † ˈfedarie, n. View full entry a1616
...A confederate, accomplice....
20. fixture, n. View full entry a1616
...The action of fixing; the process of fixing or settling, or of becoming fixed or settled. ? Obs....
