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1. Aaronical, adj. View full entry ?1549
...Of or relating to Aaron; Aaronic....
2. abacot, n. View full entry 1548
...= bycoket...
3. † abail, v.2 View full entry 1513
...trans. To reach, get to....
4. † abar, v. View full entry a1504
...trans. To bar, debar. Chiefly with from....
5. abashedly, adv. View full entry a1522
...In an abashed manner....
6. abasing, n. View full entry 1548
...The action or an act of lowering in rank, condition, or character; humbling, humiliation, degradation....
7. abator, n.1 View full entry c1523
...A person who takes possession of land between the death of the owner and the accession of the legal heir. See abate...
8. abbé, n.1 View full entry 1530
...In France or French contexts: an abbot. Also: a priest or clergyman in minor orders; esp. one without an assigned ecclesiastical duty, formerly often acting as a professor, private tutor,...
9. abbey-lubber, n. View full entry 1528
...At the English Reformation, a derogatory term for: a monk living in idleness and self-indulgence....
10. abbreviate, n. View full entry 1531
...Chiefly Sc. A condensed account of something; an abridgement; a summary; an abstract. Now Sc. Law: a brief notice registering a decree of adjudication (adjudication3a)...
11. abbreviating, n. View full entry 1548
...The action or practice of shortening something (esp. a word, text, etc.); abbreviation; abridgement....
12. abbreviator, n. View full entry 1529
...A person who shortens or abridges something, esp. a text; a summarizer; a compiler. Also: a person given to the use of abbreviations....
13. abdicate, v. View full entry 1532
...trans. To proclaim or declare to be no longer one's own; to disown, cast off; esp. to disown or disinherit a child. Obs. (hist. in...
14. abdomen, n. View full entry ?1541
...Anat. and Zool. In humans and other vertebrates: the belly; the part of the trunk of body between the chest and the pelvis; the cavity of the body bounded...
15. abduce, v. View full entry 1537
...trans. = abduct2a. Now chiefly U.S....
16. aberr, v. View full entry c1540
...intr. To go astray, diverge from a recognized path. Chiefly fig. and in figurative contexts....
17. aberrant, adj. View full entry c1536
...Subject to or characterized by aberration; abnormal, deviant, nonstandard; deviating or diverging from (formerly also †fro) a recognized course, standard, or norm....
18. abhorred, adj. View full entry 1533
...Regarded with disgust or hatred; detested, loathed, abominated....
19. abhorrer, n. View full entry ?1538
...A person who loathes or detests something. Freq. with of....
20. abhorring, n. View full entry 1528
...= abhorrence1....
