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1. abductive, adj. View full entry 1803
...Characterized by leading or drawing away; tending toward withdrawal or removal. Now rare....
2. absolute, adj. (and adv.) and n. View full entry c1400
...Grammar....
3. absolutist, n. and adj. View full entry 1799
...Polit. A supporter or advocate of absolute government. Also: a person who rules or governs absolutely....
4. absolutistic, adj. View full entry 1841
...Of or relating to absolutism (in various senses); = absolutist...
5. absurd, adj. and n. View full entry 1531
...Of a thing: against or without reason or propriety; incongruous, unreasonable, illogical....
6. absurdist, n. and adj. View full entry 1894
...A person who behaves in an illogical or absurd manner. rare....
7. academic, n. and adj. View full entry lOE
...Philos. Usu. with capital initial. An ancient philosopher of the Academy, the school of Plato and his followers; an adherent of the philosophical school of Plato; a Platonist....
8. academical, adj. and n. View full entry 1549
...Philos. Also with capital initial. = academic1. Now rare....
9. acataleptic, n. and adj. View full entry 1679
...An adherent of the doctrine of acatalepsy; a sceptic....
10. accidental, adj., n., and adv. View full entry 1387-8
...Not essential to the existence of a thing; not necessarily present, incidental, secondary, subsidiary....
11. † accidentary, adj. View full entry ?1549
...Having the nature of a logical accident; not affecting the essence, non-essential. Cf. accidental12....
12. acosmic, adj. View full entry 1857
...Not of the universe or cosmos; of, relating to, or characterized by acosmism (acosmism)....
13. acosmical, adj. View full entry 1843
...Of, relating to, or characterized by acosmism (acosmism)....
14. activist, adj. and n. View full entry 1908
...Philos. Of or relating to the theory of activism (activism2)....
15. actualist, n. and adj. View full entry 1853
...Geol. A person who believes that the geological past can be explained in terms of processes observable in the present; a proponent of actualism (actualism3). Cf. uniformitarian...
16. actualistic, adj. View full entry 1857
...Characterized by or concerned with action or the actual; (Philos.) relating to the theory that only what is actual exists (see actualism1). Also: representative of reality, realistic,...
17. additive, adj. and n. View full entry 1648
...Characterized by or involving addition; that is to be or can be added....
18. adequate, adj. View full entry 1608
...Equal in size or extent; exactly equivalent in form. Freq. with to. Obs....
19. ad hominem, adv. and adj. View full entry 1588
...By attempting to disprove an argument or proposition by attacking the beliefs or character of the person proposing it (cf. argumentum ad hominemargument3c). Subsequently also in extended use:...
20. adjunct, adj. and n. View full entry 1516
...Associated, connected; joined, added; subordinate, supplementary....
