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1. academicize, v. View full entry 1846
...intr. To engage in academic discourse, thought, or analysis. Usu. somewhat depreciative. rare....
2. academize, v. View full entry 1848
...intr. To form an academy. Obs.rare....
3. accelerate, v. View full entry c1522
...trans....
4. accommodate, v. View full entry 1531
...trans. To apply, attribute, or ascribe (esp. words) to a person. Obs....
5. accredit, v. View full entry 1598
...trans. To give or lend credit to, to promote as or show to be credible; to gain belief or influence for. Also: to vouch for, sanction, or countenance....
6. accumulate, v. View full entry c1487
...trans. To heap up in a mass, to pile up (lit. and fig.); to amass, collect, or accrue (esp. wealth or possessions)....
7. achieve, v. View full entry c1300
...intr. To be successful in doing something; to attain a desired end or level of performance. Also simply: to strive, make an effort....
8. apprehend, v. View full entry a1398
...To lay hold upon, seize, with hands, teeth, etc. Also said of fire, and fig. of trembling, fear, etc. Obs. or arch....
9. art, v.2 View full entry 1602
...trans. To obtain or gain by art. Obs.rare....
10. assimilate, v. View full entry 1578
...trans. To make like to, cause to resemble....
11. audit, v. View full entry 1557
...trans. To make an official systematic examination of (accounts), so as to ascertain their accuracy....
12. † aˈvay | aˈvey, v. View full entry c1315
...trans. To instruct, inform, teach. (Frequent in Shoreham; erron. printed by Wright aneye, anaye.)...
13. ˈbachelorize, v. View full entry a1739
...To take the degree of bachelor (of Arts, etc.)....
14. bag, v.1 View full entry a1400
...intr....
15. ball, v.2 View full entry 1577
...trans....
16. ˈbattel, v. View full entry 1570
...In the University of Oxford: To have a kitchen and buttery account in college; to be supplied with provisions from the buttery. (For earlier use see quotations, and cf. battel)...
17. beat, v.1 View full entry c885
...trans. To strike with repeated blows. to beat the breast: i.e. in sign of sorrow....
18. beef, v. View full entry 1860
...trans. To apply raw beef to (a bruise)....
19. † beˈteach, v. View full entry a1000
...trans. To show, point out....
20. birch, v. View full entry 1830
...trans. To punish with a birch rod; to flog....
