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1. amortizing | amortising, n. View full entry c1377
...The conveying to mortmain....
2. antiphoner, n. View full entry c1370
...= antiphonary...
3. † apoˈstaile, n. View full entry c1380
...prop. Apostolic; but in quot. treated (through imperfect translation) as quasi- The apostolic see....
4. apostasy, n. View full entry c1380
...Abandonment or renunciation of one's religious faith or moral allegiance....
5. apparent, adj. and n. View full entry c1375
...Meeting the eyes, showing itself; open to sight, visible, plainly seen. arch....
6. appropriation, n. View full entry c1370
...The making of a thing private property, whether another's or (as now commonly) one's own; taking as one's own or to one's own use; concr. the thing so appropriated or...
7. † aˈppropring, n. View full entry c1380
...Appropriation....
8. † aˈrail, v. View full entry c1380
...To fasten to rails, tie up....
9. arrayer, n. View full entry c1370
...gen. One who arrays....
10. assessor, n. View full entry c1380
...A person who sits beside; (hence) a person who shares another's position, rank, or dignity....
11. † aˈssieged, adj. View full entry 1383
...Besieged, beleaguered, beset....
12. † aˈssocie, v. View full entry c1380
...trans. To unite, place, or bring (a person or oneself) into companionship or alliance with another; = associate13....
13. † assoiling, n. View full entry c1380
...The action of absolving, absolution....
14. ˈauditory, n. View full entry c1380
...An assembly of hearers, an audience....
15. Austin, adj. and n. View full entry c1384
...= Augustinian...
16. authorize, v. View full entry c1383
...To set up as authoritative; to acknowledge as possessing final decisiveness. Obs....
17. avenge, v. View full entry c1375
...To take vengeance, inflict retributive punishment, exact satisfaction, or retaliate, on behalf of (an injured person, violated right, etc.); to vindicate. Const. on, upon, of (arch.),...
18. avenger, n. View full entry 1388
...He who avenges (the injured or the injury)....
19. aver, v. View full entry c1380
...trans. To declare true, assert the truth of (a statement). Obs....
20. ˈbackˌbiting, adj. View full entry 1382
...That slanders or speaks ill of the absent....
