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1. abator, n.1 View full entry c1523
...A person who takes possession of land between the death of the owner and the accession of the legal heir. See abate...
2. abbas, n. View full entry 1550
...A religious or spiritual leader; spec. an abbot. Chiefly as a title of respect....
3. abbey-lubber, n. View full entry 1528
...At the English Reformation, a derogatory term for: a monk living in idleness and self-indulgence....
4. abbreviator, n. View full entry 1529
...A person who shortens or abridges something, esp. a text; a summarizer; a compiler. Also: a person given to the use of abbreviations....
5. 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...
6. abdication, n. View full entry 1552
...The action or practice of formally disowning or casting off a person, esp. one's child. Chiefly hist., with reference to ancient Greek and Roman law....
7. abhorrence, n. View full entry 1592
...The condition of abhorring or recoiling from something; detestation, hatred, repugnance. Also: a feeling of repugnance or loathing....
8. abhorrer, n. View full entry ?1538
...A person who loathes or detests something. Freq. with of....
9. abjured, adj. View full entry 1533
...That has abjured or renounced heresy, a religion, etc. Now hist....
10. abjurement, n. View full entry ?1594
...The process of abjuring; abjuration, renunciation....
11. Abraham man, n. View full entry 1567
...A beggar claiming to have been released on licence from the Hospital of St. Mary of Bethlehem in London (see bedlam2), or any similar institution; (more generally) any vagabond...
12. abscession, n. View full entry 1583
...†Departure, removal, elimination (obs.); the cessation or termination of a disease. Now hist....
13. absentee, n. and adj. View full entry 1537
...A landowner who resides abroad or at a distance from his or her estate; (formerly also) a clergyman who is habitually absent from his parish. Also more generally: a person who is...
14. abstractor, n. View full entry 1584
...A person who makes an abstract of a text or document. Cf. abstracter...
15. academical, adj. and n. View full entry 1549
...Philos. Also with capital initial. = academic1. Now rare....
16. Academite, n. View full entry 1572
...Perh.: = academic1. Obs.rare....
17. acatry, n. View full entry 1522
...Provisions bought in rather than made in the house, esp. meat and fish.A place of storage of, or staff responsible for, such provisions in a large household, spec. the...
18. accession, n. View full entry 1551
...Something which is added or joined to another thing; an augmentation. Also: a person who joins a group of others....
19. acclamation, n. View full entry 1541
...An act of acclaiming; an exclamation or other expression of sentiment addressed to someone in a loud voice....
20. accommodation, n. View full entry 1566
...Adaptation; the process of being adapted....