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1. Aeolic, adj. and n. View full entry 1603
...Of or relating to Aeolia or to the Aeolians or their language (see Aeolian1); Aeolian....
2. amphitheatric, adj. View full entry 1601
...Of or pertaining to an amphitheatre....
3. anonymous, adj. View full entry 1601
...Nameless, having no name; of unknown name....
4. antiquarian, adj. and n. View full entry 1610
...Of or connected with the study of antiquities....
5. ˈarch-ˈpoet, n. View full entry 1610
...Chief or first poet....
6. Atellan, adj. and n. View full entry 1600
...Of or pertaining to Atella, which was famous for its popular satirical and, in later times, licentious farces; hence, farcical, ribald....
7. attack, v. View full entry 1600
...To fasten or fall upon with force or arms; to join battle with, assail, assault. (The ordinary word to describe offensive military operations.)...
8. baffler, n. View full entry 1606
...A juggler, trickster; a trifler. Obs....
9. baldly, adv. View full entry 1603
...In a bald manner; meagrely; nakedly....
10. † ˈcatalects, n. View full entry 1610
...In sense of Latin catalecta, name of a collection of short poems ascribed to Vergil; also, fragments or detached pieces....
11. chromatic, adj. and n. View full entry 1603
...Of or belonging to colour or colours; consisting of or produced by colour. (Chiefly a scientific technical term.)...
12. † chroˈmatical, adj. View full entry 1603
...= chromatic adj....
13. chronic, adj. View full entry 1601
...Of or relating to time; chronological. Obs....
14. cirque, n. View full entry 1601
...= circus1....
15. Colosseum, n. View full entry 1600
...A large amphitheatre in central Rome, founded by the Emperor Vespasian in a.d. 72 and inaugurated by the Emperor Titus in a.d. 80, noted...
16. compactly, adv. View full entry 1603
...In a compact manner; closely, densely; concisely, tersely....
17. concinnate, v. View full entry 1601
...trans. To put together fitly; to set right, arrange duly or neatly; to trim, adjust, prepare fitly....
18. condensation, n. View full entry 1603
...The action of making or becoming more dense; increase of density; reduction of volume....
19. † corneˈttier, n. View full entry 1609
...= corneter...
20. cretic, adj.1 and n. View full entry 1603
...Belonging to Crete, Cretan; applied in Greek and Latin prosody to a particular metrical foot, or to verse characterized by these....
