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1. adless, adj. View full entry 1905
...Of a newspaper, radio station, etc.: that is without advertisements; not carrying advertisements....
2. adultescent, n. View full entry 1996
...An adult who has retained the interests, behaviour, or lifestyle of adolescence. Cf. kidult, Middle Youthmiddle1....
3. advertiser, n. View full entry 1548
...A person who informs, notifies, or warns. Obs. (arch. in later use)....
4. advertorial, n. View full entry 1914
...An advertisement or publication giving information about a product or service in the style of an editorial or objective report. Also as a mass noun: this as a method or genre of...
5. Afghanistanism, n. View full entry 1948
...Preoccupation (esp. on the part of journalists) with distant events, as a diversion from controversial domestic issues (see quot. 1950)....
6. agony, n. View full entry c1384
...Christian Church. In sing. and pl. The mental struggle or anguish of Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane (Matthew 26: 36–46)....
7. air, n.1 View full entry ?c1225
...An atmosphere contaminated by noxious fumes, vapours, etc.; such contaminating fumes themselves; miasma. Now only (with qualifying adjective) merged in sense 2a....
8. airmail, n. View full entry 1911
...Mail conveyed by air; a service for conveying letters, parcels, etc., by air....
9. analytical, adj. (and n.) View full entry 1528
...Chiefly Philos. = analytic1....
10. anecdoˈtarian, n. View full entry a1734
...One who publishes anecdotes....
11. † anecdoˈtographer, n. View full entry 1686
...One who publishes anecdota or secret histories....
12. anniversary, adj. and n. View full entry c1230
...‘Returning with the revolution of the year; annual; yearly’ (Johnson); returning or commemorated at the same date in succeeding years....
13. annualist, n. View full entry 1829
...A contributor to an annual publication....
14. annualize, v. View full entry 1803
...To write for, or contribute to, an annual (publication)....
15. anti-Jacobin, adj. and n. View full entry 1809
...Opposed to the Jacobins, one of the revolutionary parties in France in 1789; hence, opposed to the French Revolution, and to those who sympathized with it, or with democratic principles,...
16. appear, v. View full entry c1250
...To come forth into view, as from a place or state of concealment, or from a distance; to become visible....
17. appearance, n. View full entry c1384
...The action of coming forward into view or becoming visible....
18. art, n.1 View full entry c1300
...Skill in doing something, esp. as the result of knowledge or practice....
19. article, n. View full entry ?c1225
...Each of the separate items of a summary of faith; spec.each of the separate clauses or statements of the Apostles' Creed; (freq. with capital initial) any of the...
20. Athenaeum, n. View full entry 1728
...Ancient Greek Hist. The temple of Athene in ancient Athens, in which professors taught their students, and orators and poets rehearsed their compositions. (Similar institutions, with the same name, were afterwards...
