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1. A, n. View full entry OE
...The letter, and the sound it represents....
2. Abba, n.1 View full entry OE
...An invocation to God as father. Chiefly in Abba, father....
3. † abbotric, n. View full entry OE
...The benefice or jurisdiction of an abbot or abbess; an abbacy. Also: an abbey....
4. absolution, n. View full entry OE
...Christian Church....
5. abye, v. View full entry OE
...trans. To buy, purchase (something); to pay a price for (something); to obtain (something) at the cost of labour or suffering. Also (and in earliest use) Theol.: to redeem,...
6. acephali, n. View full entry OE
...Priests who are not subject to the authority of a bishop. Also: bishops who are not subject to the authority of a metropolitan or archbishop. Obs.rare....
7. acolyte, n. View full entry OE
...Christian Church (now chiefly R.C. Church). A person who attends a priest and performs subordinate duties, as assisting at the altar, lighting and bearing candles, etc. Also: the order...
8. Adonai, n. View full entry OE
...A name of God, esp. in the Old Testament and Hebrew Scriptures. Now chiefly in Jewish use. Also as ...
9. † again-, comb. form View full entry OE
...Against, in opposition to. Also: opposite (rare)....
10. Agnus Dei, n. View full entry OE
...A liturgical chant beginning with the words Agnus Dei (‘Lamb of God’), sung or said shortly before the reception of Communion in the Roman Catholic Mass (and, later, in the...
11. alb, n. View full entry OE
...A white vestment reaching the feet and enveloping the entire body, worn by clergy, servers, and others taking part in church services. Also: †a similar garment worn by a consecrated king; a...
12. † alesedness, n. View full entry OE
...Deliverance, redemption, salvation. Cf. alesendness...
13. all-holy, adj. (and n.) View full entry OE
...Entirely or infinitely holy. Also as : an entirely or infinitely holy person or thing; (now only) spec. (with the) God....
14. all-might, n. View full entry OE
...Omnipotence, almightiness....
15. † aˈmansed, adj. View full entry c1000
...Excommunicated, anathematized....
16. † aˈmansing, n. View full entry c1000
...Excommunication, anathema....
17. amen, int. and n. View full entry c1000
...As a concluding formula (merely transferred from Latin) = Finis....
18. apocalypse, n. View full entry OE
...(With capital initial.) The ‘revelation’ of the future granted to St. John in the isle of Patmos. The book of the New Testament in which this is recorded....
19. archdeacon, n. View full entry c1000
...The chief deacon; orig. the chief of the attendants on a bishop, who, through the scope of his duties in relation to the services of the church and the administration...
20. B, n. View full entry c1000
...The second letter of the Roman alphabet, ancient and modern, corresponding, in position and power, to the Greek Beta, and Phœnician and Hebrew Beth, whence also its form...
