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1. 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....
2. all, adj., pron., and n., adv., and conj. View full entry eOE
...With singular noun. The whole amount, quantity, extent, or compass of; the whole of....
3. anagogical, adj. View full entry 1528
...Of words and their sense: mystical, spiritual, having a secondary spiritual sense, allegorical....
4. assoil, v. View full entry 1297
...To absolve from sin, grant absolution to, pardon, forgive; = absolve2 ‘Whom God assoil!’ (Old French que Dieu assoille! Latin quem Deus absolvat!):...
5. chivalry, n. View full entry 1297
...collect. Knights or horsemen equipped for battle....
6. cocoa, n. View full entry 1672
...The seed of Theobroma Cacao, a tropical American tree: more correctly called cacaoObs. Formerly commonly called cocoa-nut, and now often cocoa-bean....
7. cusp, n. View full entry 1579
...Astrol. The beginning or entrance of a ‘house’....
8. divination, n. View full entry c1374
...The action or practice of divining; the foretelling of future events or discovery of what is hidden or obscure by supernatural or magical means; soothsaying, augury, prophecy. With a and...
9. ephemeris, n. View full entry 1556
...A record of daily occurrences; a diary, journal. Obs....
10. establish, v. View full entry c1374
...To render stable or firm....
11. evolute, n. and adj. View full entry 1704
...Geom....
12. exorcism, n. View full entry c1400
...The action of exorcizing or expelling an evil spirit by adjuration or the performance of certain rites; an instance of this....
13. fakir, n. View full entry 1609
...‘Properly an indigent person, but specially applied to a Mahommedan religious mendicant, and then loosely, and inaccurately, to Hindu devotees and naked ascetics’ (Yule)....
14. fatherhood, n. View full entry c1380
...The attribute of being a father; the relation of a father to a child; paternity. Also in spiritual sense....
15. † hippodame, n. View full entry 1590
...erron. used by Spenser for hippocamp...
16. intra-, prefix View full entry 1666
...In adjectives (properly, and most frequently, of Latin origin) in which it stands in prepositional relation to the n. implied in the second element....
17. Irish, adj. (and adv.) and n. View full entry OE
...Of a person: native to Ireland; that is a citizen of Ireland; (also) descended from emigrants from Ireland to another country, esp. the United States or Australia (cf. Irish-American, ...
18. longanimity, n. View full entry c1450
...Long-suffering; forbearance or patience (e.g. under provocation). (See also quot. 1656.)...
19. mind, v. View full entry a1382
...trans....
20. mujahid, n. and adj. View full entry 1885
...A person (esp. a guerrilla) who strives or fights in support of Islam; spec. an Islamic fundamentalist guerrilla. Also (in quot. 1921) irreg.: = mujahidin...
