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1. aberemurder, n. View full entry 1647
...Deliberate, premeditated murder....
2. 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....
3. acherset, n. View full entry 1701
...A measure of corn used in medieval England (see quots.)....
4. † achete, n. View full entry a1325
...The reversion of property to a lord on the owner's dying without legal heirs; escheat; (also) the right to claim such escheated property. Cf. achete...
5. adscript, n. and adj. View full entry 1636
...Geom. A circumscribed or inscribed line, esp. a tangent of a curve. Now rare and hist....
6. afforce, v. View full entry c1300
...refl. To exert oneself (to do something); to strive, endeavour; to do one's best. Obs....
7. afforcement, n. View full entry 1642
...= afforciament1. Obs....
8. † agild, adj. View full entry OE
...Of a dead person: without payment of compensation or wergild (see wergild), unpaid for. Esp. in to lie agild....
9. aid, n. View full entry 1419
...A levy or subsidy paid to the Crown to defray military or other extraordinary expenses. Now chiefly hist....
10. allegiance, n. View full entry a1425
...Originally: (Feudal Law) the duty, homage, etc., owed by a vassal or liege man (liege man) to the king or lord from whom he holds land; fealty (now...
11. † all-hood, n. View full entry 1722
...Absolute ownership; entire estate (estate11a). Chiefly in the context of feudal property. Cf. allodium...
12. allod, n. View full entry 1836
...Land held by allodial tenure (see allodial1); tenure of, or title to, such land. In later use freq. as in allod....
13. allodial, adj. and n. View full entry 1606
...Of property: held in absolute ownership, without acknowledgement of any superior; not subject to any feudal obligation. Also applied to tenure of or title to such property. Freq. opposed to feudal...
14. allodification, n. View full entry 1829
...The conversion of land to allodial (as opposed to feudal) status....
15. altar, n. View full entry eOE
...A block, table, stand, or other raised structure with a flat top used as the focus for a religious ritual, especially for making sacrifices or offerings to a god or gods....
16. Anglian, adj. and n. View full entry a1711
...Of or relating to the Angles (see Angle); freq. spec. of or relating to the early medieval kingdoms of Mercia, Northumbria, and East Anglia. Also: of or relating...
17. Anglo-French, n. and adj. View full entry 1796
...With the and pl. concord. English supporters of the French interest during the French Revolutionary Wars of 17921802, considered collectively. Obs.rare....
18. Anglo-Latin, adj. and n. View full entry 1783
...Designating the Latin language as spoken or written in England (or Britain), esp. in the Middle Ages; of or relating to this....
19. Anglo-Norman, adj. and n. View full entry 1719
...Of or relating to the Normans in England after the Norman Conquest; (also) of or relating to England and Normandy ruled as a single realm between 1066 and 1204....
20. Anglo-Norse, adj. and n. View full entry 1872
...Of or relating to the Scandinavians in England during the medieval period....
