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1. Aaronic, adj. View full entry 1652
...Of or relating to Aaron or the order of priesthood which he is taken to represent; Levitical. Also: characteristic of or relating to a high priest....
2. Aaronical, adj. View full entry ?1549
...Of or relating to Aaron; Aaronic....
3. Aaronite, n. and adj. View full entry a1382
...A descendant or follower of Aaron; a member of the Jewish priesthood. Cf. Aaron...
4. abbeyed, adj. View full entry 1828
...Provided with an abbey or abbeys....
5. abecedarian, n. and adj. View full entry 1603
...A person who is learning the alphabet or who is engaged in elementary education; spec. (U.S.) a member of the youngest group of children in a school (now...
6. Abrahamic, adj. View full entry 1699
...Of, relating to, or characteristic of the biblical patriarch Abraham; (also) of, relating to, or belonging to the group of religions comprising Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, which trace their origin to Abraham....
7. absent, adj. and n. View full entry a1382
...Not present in a place or at an occasion; away. Freq. in predicative use....
8. absentee, n. and adj. View full entry 1537
...A landowner who resides abroad or at a distance from his or her estate; (formerly also) a clergyman who is habitually absent from his parish. Also more generally: a person who is...
9. absolutory, adj. View full entry 1611
...That absolves or acquits a person or thing; that grants absolution; of or relating to absolution....
10. absolvable, adj. View full entry 1680
...Capable of being absolved; deserving absolution or acquittal....
11. absolvent, n. and adj. View full entry 1651
...A person who or thing which absolves (in various senses)....
12. abstinent, adj. and n. View full entry a1400
...Practising abstinence; continent, abstemious, temperate; (also) characterized by abstinence or restraint. Also with †in, from....
13. † Abyssin, n. and adj. View full entry a1576
...A member of the Abyssinian (now the Ethiopian) Orthodox Church....
14. Abyssinian, n. and adj. View full entry 1660
...Any of the languages spoken by the inhabitants of Abyssinia (now Ethiopia). Now usu. spec.= Amharic...
15. Acacian, n. and adj. View full entry 1577
...A follower of the Arian Christological doctrines of Acacius, a 4th-cent. bishop of Caesarea....
16. acanonical, adj. View full entry 1592
...Not included in a canon, spec. the biblical canon; uncanonical....
17. acatholic, n. and adj. View full entry 1745
...= non-Catholic; esp. a non-Catholic inhabitant of a Catholic state....
18. acephal, n. and adj. View full entry a1387
...Church Hist. = Acephalian Also: †a priest who is not subject to the authority of a bishop (cf. acephali1) (obs.rare). Usu. with capital...
19. Acephalian, n. and adj. View full entry a1603
...A member of a group of extreme Monophysites who seceded from the main body in the 5th cent., acknowledging no leaders and rejecting episcopal control. Cf. acephali2a....
20. acosmic, adj. View full entry 1857
...Not of the universe or cosmos; of, relating to, or characterized by acosmism (acosmism)....
