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1. A, n. View full entry OE
...The letter, and the sound it represents....
2. abandonment, n. View full entry 1593
...The surrender or devotion of oneself to an influence, passion, emotion, etc.; self-abandonment; an instance of this....
3. † abandum, n. View full entry 1729
...Anything which is sequestered, proscribed, or abandoned....
4. abatement, n.1 View full entry ?a1400
...The action of abate; wrongful occupation of land or property, usurpation; an instance of this. Freq. in abatement of freehold....
5. abatement, n.2 View full entry 1421
...The result of abating or lessening (in various senses of abateII.); the amount by which something is abated; a reduction, deduction, decrease....
6. abater, n.1 View full entry 1583
...A person who, or thing which, abates (in various senses of abate), esp. (chiefly Law) one that abates a nuisance....
7. abating, n. View full entry 1370
...The action or process of reducing, or lessening; reduction, diminution, decrease; an instance of this....
8. 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...
9. abbot, n. View full entry eOE
...A man who is the head or superior of an abbey of (Christian) monks. Also used as a title placed before (and in Old English also after) a name....
10. abbreviate, n. View full entry 1531
...Chiefly Sc. A condensed account of something; an abridgement; a summary; an abstract. Now Sc. Law: a brief notice registering a decree of adjudication (adjudication3a)...
11. 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....
12. abearance, n. View full entry 1552
...Behaviour, conduct. Esp. (now only) in good abearance (Law): legally acceptable behaviour, as pledged under surety by an offender to avoid or reduce the severity of a punishment....
13. aberemurder, n. View full entry 1647
...Deliberate, premeditated murder....
14. abetment, n. View full entry c1380
...Chiefly Law. The action or fact of encouraging, instigating, or assisting in a crime or other misdeed....
15. abettor, n. View full entry 1387-8
...Chiefly Law. A person who encourages or assists an offender....
16. abeyance, n. View full entry 1556
...Law. Of a right or title: the position of waiting for or temporarily being without a claimant or owner. Also: a period of being without a claimant or owner. Chiefly in...
17. abeyancy, n. View full entry 1839
...= abeyance (in either sense)....
18. ability, n. View full entry a1398
...Suitableness or adaptation for a purpose; fitness, aptitude; (also) an instance of this. Obs....
19. abjudication, n. View full entry 1623
...The action or an act of taking away by judicial decision. Also: the action of passing judgement against a person or thing....
20. abjuration, n. View full entry ?a1439
...Renunciation on oath; forswearing, esp. of heretical opinions; (also) an instance of this. Now chiefly hist....
