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1. abbrochment, n. View full entry 1670
...= forestalling2. Also: an instance of this....
2. accentor, n. View full entry 1656
...Music. A person who performs the treble part in a trio or choir. Cf. incentor2succentor1b. Obs....
3. † actitation, n. View full entry 1661
...Law. The action or an act of debating a cause....
4. † adoxy, n. View full entry 1656
...Ill repute, ignominy; shame....
5. affinage, n. View full entry 1656
...The action or process of refining metals. Obs.rare....
6. aggrandizement, n. View full entry 1656
...The action or process of aggrandizing or exalting in power, status, or importance; exaltation, advancement (of oneself or another). Cf. self-aggrandizementself-1a....
7. agonarch, n. View full entry 1656
...A presiding authority at an agon or public celebration of games (see agon1); a judge or overseer of proceedings. Also more generally: a master of revels....
8. † agricole, n. View full entry 1656
...A person who works on the land; a farmer or farm-worker. rare....
9. alazony, n. View full entry 1656
...Pride, arrogance. Obs.rare....
10. † alectryomachy, n. View full entry 1656
...Cockfighting. Cf. alectoromachy...
11. † aletude, n. View full entry 1656
...Fatness, corpulence....
12. aleuromancy, n. View full entry 1656
...Any of various forms of divination using meal, flour, cakes, etc., esp. as practised by the ancient Greeks. Cf. alphitomancy...
13. algidity, n. View full entry 1656
...Coldness, chilliness; spec. coldness of the skin or body, esp. in an individual suffering from shock, as in the late stages of untreated cholera, septicaemia, etc....
14. algorist, n. View full entry 1656
...A person skilled in the use of Arabic numerals in arithmetic (cf. algorism1). Chiefly hist....
15. † aliety, n. View full entry 1656
...The quality of being other or different; otherness, alterity....
16. † allectation, n. View full entry 1656
...The action or an act of alluring, enticement; (also) alluring power or quality. Cf. allectionillectationillect....
17. † amanˈdation, n. View full entry 1656
...The action of sending off or dismissing....
18. † amˈbilogy, n. View full entry 1656
...‘Talk of ambiguous or doubtful signification’ (Johnson). (A needless hybrid for ambiloquy)...
19. † ˈambitude, n. View full entry ?a1681
...‘A circuit or compassing round; also ambition.’ Blount Glossogr.1681....
20. † anaˈchronicism, n. View full entry 1656
...= anachronism1....
