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1. aberemurder, n. View full entry 1647
...Deliberate, premeditated murder....
2. 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....
3. acherset, n. View full entry 1701
...A measure of corn used in medieval England (see quots.)....
4. † achete, n. View full entry a1325
...The reversion of property to a lord on the owner's dying without legal heirs; escheat; (also) the right to claim such escheated property. Cf. achete...
5. adscript, n. and adj. View full entry 1837
...An adscript feudal serf (see sense B. 1). Also in extended use....
6. adscript, n. and adj. View full entry ?1794
...Of a feudal serf: hereditarily attached to an estate, and transferred with it. Also in fig. context....
7. afforce, v. View full entry 1783
...Chiefly Eng.Law. To reinforce or strengthen (a deliberative body); esp. (in the Middle Ages) to add a member or members to (a jury) when the original jurors...
8. afforcement, n. View full entry 1783
...Chiefly Eng.Law. Reinforcement of a deliberative body; esp. (in the Middle Ages) the addition of members to a jury when the original jurors cannot agree a majority...
9. † agild, adj. View full entry OE
...Of a dead person: without payment of compensation or wergild (see wergild), unpaid for. Esp. in to lie agild....
10. aid, n. View full entry a1475
...A monetary contribution paid to a lord by a feudal vassal. Now hist....
11. aid money in aid, n. View full entry 1500
...money exacted as an aid by the Crown or a feudal lord (see sense 1) (now rare; hist. in later use);money contributed as aid; (in later use) spec....
12. allegiance, n. View full entry a1425
...Originally: (Feudal Law) the duty, homage, etc., owed by a vassal or liege man (liege man) to the king or lord from whom he holds land; fealty (now...
13. allegiance, n. View full entry a1530
...Feudal Law. The position of a king or lord in relation to a vassal; lordship. Also with possessive adjective, as a title of respect. Obs....
14. † all-hood, n. View full entry 1722
...Absolute ownership; entire estate (estate11a). Chiefly in the context of feudal property. Cf. allodium...
15. allod, n. View full entry 1836
...Land held by allodial tenure (see allodial1); tenure of, or title to, such land. In later use freq. as in allod....
16. allodial, adj. and n. View full entry 1606
...Of property: held in absolute ownership, without acknowledgement of any superior; not subject to any feudal obligation. Also applied to tenure of or title to such property. Freq. opposed to feudal...
17. allodification, n. View full entry 1829
...The conversion of land to allodial (as opposed to feudal) status....
18. altar-thegn in altar, n. View full entry 1720
...(with reference to the Anglo-Saxon period) the priest serving at an altar; a mass-priest....
19. Anglian, adj. and n. View full entry a1711
...Of or relating to the Angles (see Angle); freq. spec. of or relating to the early medieval kingdoms of Mercia, Northumbria, and East Anglia. Also: of or relating...
20. Anglo-French, n. and adj. View full entry 1862
...The variety of the French language spoken and written in medieval England....
