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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. 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...
5. 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....
6. 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)....
7. absolution, n. View full entry 1569
...orig. Roman Law. A legal acquittal, reprieve, or pardon....
8. 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....
9. Acarnanian, n. and adj. View full entry 1600
...Of or belonging to Acarnania or its inhabitants....
10. † acceptilate, v. View full entry 1880
...trans. To discharge (a debt) by an acquittance without payment. Cf. acceptilation...
11. 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.)....
12. 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...
13. 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...
14. acetable, n. View full entry c1429
...Roman Hist. = acetabulum1....
15. acetabulum, n. View full entry a1398
...Roman Hist.A cup to hold condiments, esp. vinegar, for serving at the table.A measure of capacity for liquids and dry granular substances, equal to one-eighth of a sextary (sextary...
16. Achaean, n. and adj. View full entry 1550
...A native or inhabitant of Achaea, a region of ancient Greece on the north coast of the Peloponnese....
17. Achaemenian, adj. and n. View full entry 1661
...= Achaemenid...
18. Achaemenian, adj. and n. View full entry 1737
...= Achaemenid...
19. Achaemenid, n. and adj. View full entry 1601
...A member of the dynasty that ruled in ancient Persia from the time of Cyrus the Great (d. 529 b.c.) until the death of Darius III (330 b.c.)....
20. Achaemenid, n. and adj. View full entry 1852
...Of, relating to, or designating this dynasty....
