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1. adamantean, adj. View full entry 1671
...Having the hardness or strength of adamant; = adamantine1a....
2. † adorn, adj. View full entry 1667
...Adorned, ornate....
3. † affatuated, adj. View full entry 1649
...Infatuated....
4. Africanism, n. View full entry 1641
...A word, phrase, or other use of language characteristic of, peculiar to, or originating from Africa or Africans....
5. agape, adv. and adj. View full entry 1667
...So as to be gaping or wide open; in a gaping fashion; spec. with the mouth open in an attitude or state of astonishment, anticipation, wonder, or incomprehension....
6. agonistes, adj. View full entry 1671
...Used postpositively as an epithet with proper names: who is an agonist, engaged in a struggle or combat....
7. † alloeostropha, n. View full entry 1671
...With pl. concord. Passages of verse consisting of irregular strophes....
8. amarant(h)ine, adj. View full entry 1667
...Of or pertaining to amarant(h), of everlasting flowers, fadeless....
9. ambo, n. View full entry 1641
...Special name of the pulpit or reading-desk in early Christian churches; ‘an oblong enclosure with steps usually at the two ends.’ Gwilt....
10. amending, adj. View full entry 1641
...Correcting, reforming, improving....
11. anarch, n. and adj. View full entry 1667
...An author of anarchy; a leader of revolt....
12. animadverter, n. View full entry 1642
...A person who animadverts; a censurer, fault-finder; an unfavourable critic or commentator....
13. announced, adj. View full entry 1671
...Made publicly known; intimated....
14. † anˈtagony, n. View full entry 1643
...Antagonism....
15. antinomian, adj. and n. View full entry 1645
...Opposed to the obligatoriness of the moral law; of or pertaining to the antinomians....
16. antiˈnomianism, n. View full entry 1643
...The doctrine or practice of antinomians; avowed rejection of the moral law....
17. antiquitarian, n. View full entry 1641
...One attached to the practices or opinions of antiquity....
18. † ˈaphorismer, n. View full entry 1641
...A dealer in aphorisms. (contemptuous.)...
19. aphorisming, adj. View full entry 1641
...Dealing in aphorisms....
20. arborous, adj. View full entry 1667
...Of, belonging to, or consisting of trees....
