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1. A, n. View full entry OE
...The letter, and the sound it represents....
2. accommodation, n. View full entry 1566
...Adaptation; the process of being adapted....
3. action, n. View full entry a1393
...Something done or performed, a deed, an act; (in pl.) habitual or ordinary deeds, conduct....
4. age, n. View full entry c1275
...A naturally distinct section of a person's or animal's existence; a particular period or stage of life. Often with defining word or phrase specifying the stage....
5. agriological, adj. View full entry 1878
...Of or relating to agriology....
6. agriology, n. View full entry 1878
...Friedrich Max Müller's name for: the comparative study of the history and culture of primitive peoples....
7. biotypology, n. View full entry 1927
...The classification of human beings by body type or other morphological, physiological, or psychological characteristics....
8. blood, n. (and int.) View full entry eOE
...The red fluid flowing in the arteries, capillaries, and veins of humans and other vertebrates, carrying oxygen and nutrients to, and carbon dioxide and waste metabolites away from, the organs and tissues...
9. class, n. and adj. View full entry 1533
...Roman Hist. A group of Roman citizens who could meet a certain minimum wealth qualification; spec. each of the five groups into which property owners were divided for military...
10. communitarianism, n. View full entry 1840
...A theory or system of social organization based on the creation of small self-governing (and freq. self-sufficient) communities; advocacy or practice of such a system. Now chiefly hist....
11. communitas, n. View full entry 1841
...A community; a body of people acting collectively; (Law) = corporation3a. hist....
12. field, n.1 View full entry eOE
...Open country, esp. as opposed to woodland; a stretch of open land; a plain....
13. food, n. View full entry OE
...Any nutritious substance that people or animals eat or drink in order to maintain life and growth; nourishment, provisions. ...
14. heaven, n. View full entry eOE
...The expanse in which the sun, moon, and stars are seen, (esp. in earlier use) regarded as having the appearance of a vast vault arched over the earth; the sky, the firmament....
15. humanist, n. and adj. View full entry 1589
...A person who pursues or is expert in the study of the humanities, esp. a classical scholar. Also (Sc.): spec. a Latinist, a professor or teacher...
16. ideal, adj. and n. View full entry c1450
...Existing as an idea or archetype; relating to or consisting of ideas in the Platonic or theological sense: see idea1a....
17. manifest, adj. and adv. View full entry 1385
...Clearly revealed to the eye, mind, or judgement; open to view or comprehension; obvious....
18. Melanian, adj.1 (and n.2) View full entry 1861
...Originally: = Negrito Later: = Negroid Also as ...
19. meta-, prefix View full entry 1838
...Denoting change, transformation, permutation, or substitution....
20. Methodenstreit, n. View full entry 1893
...Originally: the debate in the German-speaking academic world in the late 19th and early 20th centuries about the scientific status and methodology of economics, and subsequently of sociology and related disciplines (now...
