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1. A, n. View full entry OE
...The letter, and the sound it represents....
2. abbacy, n. View full entry 1469
...The benefice, jurisdiction, or office of an abbot or abbess. Also (Sc.): †an abbey (obs.). Cf. abbotship1....
3. abbey, n. View full entry c1300
...Christian Church....
4. ablution, n. View full entry c1405
...Chem. Originally: the purification of oils and other substances by a process of emulsification with hot water, the water being drained off after the two immiscible liquids have been allowed to...
5. abthanage, n. View full entry 1862
...= abthanery...
6. abthane, n. View full entry a1525
...A senior thane (thane4)....
7. abthanery, n. View full entry 1796
...An abbacy; the territory and jurisdiction of an abbot; the secular jurisdiction of what were previously abbatial lands. Also: the jurisdiction of an abthane1....
8. accident, n. View full entry 1395
...Philos. In Aristotelian thought: a property or quality not essential to a substance or object; something that does not constitute an essential component, an attribute. Cf. substance4a....
9. account, n. View full entry c1300
...Counting, reckoning, enumeration; computation, calculation; (also) a style or mode of reckoning; an amount established by counting. Now chiefly in money of account: see money2....
10. action, n. View full entry a1393
...Something done or performed, a deed, an act; (in pl.) habitual or ordinary deeds, conduct....
11. active, adj. and n. View full entry 1340
...Of a way or style of life: characterized by outward action rather than inward contemplation or speculation; practical. Esp. in active life, and chiefly in religious contexts. Opposed to ...
12. actual, adj. and n. View full entry c1350
...Chiefly Theol. Characteristic of or relating to acts or action; exhibited in or arising from deeds; practical, active. Now chiefly in actual grace and actual sin....
13. adder, n.1 View full entry eOE
...In generic sense: a snake, a serpent, esp. with reference to the serpent as a manifestation of the devil in the biblical account of the Fall in the Garden of Eden; (hence,...
14. administration, n. View full entry c1350
...The action, or (occas.) an act, of administering or giving something to a person. Freq. with of....
15. administrator, n. View full entry 1434
...Law....
16. advocate, n. View full entry 1340
...Christian Church. A person or agent believed to intercede between God and sinners; spec. Christ or the Virgin Mary....
17. afflicted, adj. and n. View full entry 1534
...Grievously distressed, tormented; troubled; oppressed, downtrodden. Also: suggestive of or characterized by affliction....
18. after-, prefix View full entry eOE
...Combinations in which after- is adjectival or adverbial, and indicates that the second element refers to something that comes behind or afterwards, or an action that is performed later....
19. afterings, n. View full entry 1609
...That which remains or is left; the remnant, the remains; (Theol.) a part of the suffering of Christ that remains in the flesh of man. Now Sc. and...
20. † aggravator, n.1 View full entry 1532
...A letter of ecclesiastical censure. Cf. aggravation2....
