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1. ability, n. View full entry a1398
...Suitableness or adaptation for a purpose; fitness, aptitude; (also) an instance of this. Obs....
2. academy, n. View full entry a1382
...With capital initial....
3. access, n. View full entry c1300
...An attack, or the onset (of fever or disease); a repeated episode (of an intermittent or chronic disease); (esp. in early use) spec. the characteristic paroxysm...
4. achieve, v. View full entry c1300
...intr. To be successful in doing something; to attain a desired end or level of performance. Also simply: to strive, make an effort....
5. 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...
6. admonish, v. View full entry 1340
...trans. To exhort or urge (a person) to do something, esp. as a duty or obligation; to tell or warn (a person) that he or she should...
7. apprehend, v. View full entry a1398
...To lay hold upon, seize, with hands, teeth, etc. Also said of fire, and fig. of trembling, fear, etc. Obs. or arch....
8. apprehension, n. View full entry a1398
...The action of laying hold of or seizing (physically); prehension, grasping. rare....
9. apprentice, n. and adj. View full entry 1362
...A learner of a craft; one who is bound by legal agreement to serve an employer in the exercise of some handicraft, art, trade, or profession, for a certain number of years,...
10. † aˈpprenticehood, n. View full entry 1377
...= apprenticeship...
11. art, n.1 View full entry c1300
...Skill in doing something, esp. as the result of knowledge or practice....
12. artificial, adj. and n. View full entry a1398
...Of a thing: made or constructed by human skill, esp. in imitation of, or as a substitute for, something which is made or occurs naturally; man-made....
13. assembly, n. View full entry 1330
...Gathering together, meeting; the state of being collected or gathered; = assemblage1....
14. assistant, adj. and n. View full entry a1400
...Standing or remaining by, present, accompanying. Obs....
15. attendance, n. View full entry c1374
...The action or condition of applying one's mind or observant faculties to something; = attention1. Obs....
16. auditor, n. View full entry 1377
...A hearer, listener; one of an audience....
17. ˈauditory, n. View full entry c1380
...An assembly of hearers, an audience....
18. † aˈvay | aˈvey, v. View full entry c1315
...trans. To instruct, inform, teach. (Frequent in Shoreham; erron. printed by Wright aneye, anaye.)...
19. bag, v.1 View full entry a1400
...intr....
20. beta, n. View full entry a1400
...The second letter of the Greek alphabet, Β, β....
