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1. beggar, n. View full entry a1250
...One who asks alms, especially habitually; one who lives by so doing....
2. bio-, comb. form View full entry 1808
...With the sense ‘biographical’, ‘comprising elements of biography’....
3. block, n. View full entry c1305
...A log of wood; part of the trunk of a tree, a stump....
4. colour | color, n.1 View full entry c1300
...Any of the constituents into which light can be separated as in a spectrum or rainbow, and which are referred to by names such as blue, red, ...
5. common, adj. and adv. View full entry 1297
...‘Belonging equally to more than one’ (Johnson); possessed or shared alike by both or all (the persons or things in question). to have (anything) common with: now, to have ...
6. cultural, adj. and n. View full entry 1856
...Of or relating to intellectual and artistic pursuits....
7. field, n.1 View full entry eOE
...Open country, esp. as opposed to woodland; a stretch of open land; a plain....
8. form, n. View full entry ?c1225
...The visible aspect of a thing; now usually in narrower sense, shape, configuration, as distinguished from colour; occasionally, the shape or figure of the body as distinguished from the face....
9. formalism, n. View full entry 1840
...Strict or excessive adherence to prescribed forms; an instance or variety of this....
10. ghost, n. View full entry a800
...The soul or spirit, as the principle of life; also ghost of life. Obs. exc. in phrase to give up (†earlier to give, give away,:...
11. historicism, n. View full entry 1825
...S. T. Coleridge's term for: empiricism. Obs.rare....
12. humanitarian, n. and adj. View full entry ?1792
...Theol....
13. idea, n. View full entry a1398
...In Platonic philosophy: an abstract or eternally existing pattern or archetype of any kind of thing, in relation to which particular things are conceived as imperfect copies or approximations, and often as...
14. idealist, n. and adj. View full entry 1701
...Philos....
15. individual, adj. and n. View full entry c1425
...One in substance or essence; forming an indivisible entity; indivisible. Obs....
16. jargon, n.1 View full entry 1340-70
...The inarticulate utterance of birds, or a vocal sound resembling it; twittering, chattering....
17. language, n. (and int.) View full entry c1300
...The system of spoken or written communication used by a particular country, people, community, etc., typically consisting of words used within a regular grammatical and syntactic structure. Also fig....
18. life, n. View full entry eOE
...The condition, quality, or fact of being a living person or animal; human or animal existence. Cf. soul1. ...
19. material, adj., n., and adv. View full entry c1390
...Of or relating to matter or substance; formed or consisting of matter. In early use: †earthly (obs.)....
20. materialism, n. View full entry 1713
...Philos. Originally: the theory or belief that nothing exists except matter and its movements and modifications. Now also more narrowly: the theory or belief that mental phenomena are nothing more than,...
