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1. abacus, n. View full entry 1700
...Ancient Greek Hist. and Roman Hist. A sideboard....
2. abaton, n. View full entry 1829
...A place to which access is restricted, esp. a sacred space or enclosure; a sanctuary....
3. abaton, n. View full entry 1884
...spec. An enclosure or building attached to a temple of Asclepius, in which supplicants wishing to be cured slept....
4. Abbevillian, adj. and n. View full entry 1934
...Archaeol. Designating a culture of the Lower Palaeolithic dated to about 700,000–500,000 years ago, characterized by the first appearance in Europe of crude hand axes and now often subsumed in, or...
5. Abbevillian, adj. and n. View full entry 1937
...Archaeol. With the. The Abbevillian culture....
6. 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...
7. abdication, n. View full entry 1552
...The action or practice of formally disowning or casting off a person, esp. one's child. Chiefly hist., with reference to ancient Greek and Roman law....
8. aberemurder, n. View full entry 1647
...Deliberate, premeditated murder....
9. abolla, n. View full entry 1700
...In the ancient Roman world: a kind of thick cloak, worn by peasants, soldiers, and others (and, as an affectation, by philosophers)....
10. abri, n. View full entry 1887
...Archaeol. A hollow beneath overhanging rock; a rock shelter....
11. absolute, adj. (and adv.) and n. View full entry 1919
...Geol. and Archaeol. Of time or chronology: expressed in calendrical years rather than in terms of geological or cultural periods, or relative to an event....
12. absolution, n. View full entry 1569
...orig. Roman Law. A legal acquittal, reprieve, or pardon....
13. Acarnanian, n. and adj. View full entry 1550
...A native or inhabitant of Acarnania, an ancient region of north-west Greece bordering the Ionian Sea....
14. Acarnanian, n. and adj. View full entry 1600
...Of or belonging to Acarnania or its inhabitants....
15. † acceptilate, v. View full entry 1880
...trans. To discharge (a debt) by an acquittance without payment. Cf. acceptilation...
16. acceptilation, n. View full entry c1538
...Release from a debt by an acquittance without payment; an instance of this. Formerly also fig.: †free remission of sins (obs.)....
17. accusative, adj. and n. View full entry c1400
...(in ancient Greek, Latin, German, and other inflected languages) a case of nouns and pronouns, and of words in grammatical agreement with them, the typical function of which is to express the...
18. accusative absolute in accusative, adj. and n. View full entry 1755
...an absolute construction in the accusative case; spec.(in ancient Greek) such a construction involving the participle of an impersonal verb, equivalent to the genitive absolute;(in German) an adverb phrase...
19. acephali, n. View full entry 1706
...Eng. Hist. During the reign of Henry I: a group of free socagers having no feudal superior except the king. Obs....
20. aceramic, adj. (and n.) View full entry 1961
...Of a culture, esp. an early Neolithic culture: lacking pottery. Also: of or relating to such a culture. Also occas. as (with the)....
