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1. 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....
2. action, n. View full entry a1393
...Something done or performed, a deed, an act; (in pl.) habitual or ordinary deeds, conduct....
3. 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 ...
4. actor, n. View full entry c1384
...A guardian, a steward; a person who acts on behalf of another. Obs....
5. acute, adj. and n. View full entry a1398
...Med....
6. adjection, n. View full entry a1325
...Something that has been added or appended; an added statement, word, etc.; (Grammar) an affix....
7. adjective, adj. and n. View full entry a1398
...Grammar. That is an adjective (sense B. 1a)....
8. adoption, n. View full entry 1340
...The action or practice of legally or informally taking a person into any relationship; esp. the taking of a minor who is not one's offspring into the legal relationship of...
9. affinity, n. View full entry a1325
...Relationship by marriage (as distinguished from relationship by blood); kinship between people or families that results from marriage; (also in early use) †ties between families or their members that result from a...
10. affirm, v. View full entry a1382
...trans. To assert (something) strongly; to state as a fact....
11. aggregative, adj. and n. View full entry a1400
...Med. and Surg. Promoting the union of the edges of a wound; = agglutinative1. Obs....
12. alien, adj. and n. View full entry a1382
...Belonging to another person, place, or family; not of one's own; from elsewhere, foreign....
13. animate, adj. and n. View full entry a1398
...Endowed with life, living, alive; (esp. in later use) alive and having the power of movement, like an animal....
14. antecedent, n. View full entry 1393
...A thing or circumstance which goes before or precedes in time or order; often also implying causal relation with its consequent....
15. apert, adj. and adv. View full entry c1300
...Open, manifest, public, plain, unconcealed. (Opposed to privy.) arch. since 1700....
16. application, n. View full entry a1398
...The action of bringing something to bear upon a person or thing with practical results; the action of causing something to affect a person or thing....
17. art, n.1 View full entry c1300
...Skill in doing something, esp. as the result of knowledge or practice....
18. aspect, n. View full entry 1393
...The action of looking at anything; beholding, contemplation; gaze, view. Obs....
19. aspiration, n. View full entry a1398
...The action of breathing into; inspiration....
20. attribute, n. View full entry a1400
...A quality or character ascribed to any person or thing, one which is in common estimation or usage assigned to him; hence, sometimes, an epithet or appellation in which the...
