| abolish | trans. To put an end to, do away with (an institution, custom, or practice); to… | 1475 | Go To Quotation |
| abstaining | The act, practice, or condition of keeping oneself or refraining from something. Now largely superseded by abstinence n. | 1395 | Go To Quotation |
| almshouse | Originally: a house for the accommodation or support of the poor or needy; esp. a house… | 1395 | Go To Quotation |
| Barebone's Parliament | = little Parliament n. at little adj. n. adv. Special uses. | 1657 | Go To Quotation |
| centuriate | In Roman colonization, to divide and assign land (see centuriation n.). | 1918 | Go To Quotation |
| Church of England | The English branch of the Christian Church; (since 1534) spec. that constituted at… | 1395 | Go To Quotation |
| computistical | = computistic adj. | 1895 | Go To Quotation |
| devaluation | The process of devaluing or fact of being devalued; spec. the reduction of the official value… | 1914 | Go To Quotation |
| exaugural | Of a discourse: Delivered at the close of a term of office. | 1887 | Go To Quotation |
| hot-gospelling | Zealous, evangelical; extravagantly puritanical or excessively pious. | 1891 | Go To Quotation |
| immunist | A person who enjoys legal immunity (immunity n. 1). | 1894 | Go To Quotation |
| Japonize | trans. = Japanize v. | 1899 | Go To Quotation |
| Madeira | A fortified wine produced on the island of Madeira; a variety of this. Also Madeira wine. | 1595 | Go To Quotation |
| mendivaunt | = mendicant n. 1a. Also (occas.) as adj.: = mendicant n. 1. | 1395 | Go To Quotation |
| mese-place | = mese n. | 1439 | Go To Quotation |
| mythopoeism | = mythopoeia n. | 1899 | Go To Quotation |
| need | A metal plate on which the point of a clinch-nail is beaten down in the building of boats; = rove n. | 1323 | Go To Quotation |
| Newfoundland | General attrib. Designating things or persons native to, associated with, or characteristic… | 1584 | Go To Quotation |
| onerous | Of the nature of a burden; burdensome; troublesome, tiresomely difficult. | 1395 | Go To Quotation |
| overwinter | That is for the duration of the winter; enduring, occurring, etc., through or beyond the winter. | 1900 | Go To Quotation |
| ox-heart | The heart of an ox, esp. as an article of food. | 1677 | Go To Quotation |
| Palamism | The beliefs and practices of the Palamites. | 1949 | Go To Quotation |
| parliamenteer | Brit. Hist. A person, esp. a soldier, on the side of Parliament during the English Civil War; = parliamentarian n. 2. | 1642 | Go To Quotation |
| pax ecclesiae | A state or declaration of peace overseen by the Church; peace between factions of the Church. | 1893 | Go To Quotation |
| peacekeeping | That keeps the peace; engaged in or advocating the keeping of peace. | 1827 | Go To Quotation |
| peremption | The action of killing. With of. Obs. | 1475 | Go To Quotation |
| perniciosity | The quality of being pernicious; wickedness, harmfulness. | 1475 | Go To Quotation |
| perpetre | trans. To perpetrate (a crime, etc.). | 1475 | Go To Quotation |
| plenipotence | The quality of being plenipotent; full power or authority. | 1641 | Go To Quotation |
| practive | Practicality; operation, execution; actual doing, working, or putting into practice. | 1395 | Go To Quotation |
| precarial | Of or relating to a precarium (precarium n. 2). | 1914 | Go To Quotation |
| precogitate | = precogitated adj. | 1475 | Go To Quotation |
| pretense | Pretended, professed; feigned, sham, dissembling. | 1395 | Go To Quotation |
| private | Of a religious rule: not shared by all Christians. Of an individual or a religious… | 1395 | Go To Quotation |
| privy seal | The office or position of Keeper of the Privy Seal (see sense 3b). | 1395 | Go To Quotation |
| profligation | The action of overcoming or overthrowing a person or thing. Obs. | 1475 | Go To Quotation |
| provenance | The proceeds from a business. Obs. rare. | 1628 | Go To Quotation |
| reconcilement | The fact or condition of being restored to friendly relations with another or with each… | 1475 | Go To Quotation |
| relapse | The action or an act of falling back into error, sin, or wrongdoing; a return to… | 1475 | Go To Quotation |
| republical | = republican adj. | 1656 | Go To Quotation |
| retreating | That moves or draws back or further away; that withdraws; that falls back. | 1643 | Go To Quotation |
| Romipetal | In respect of which Rome functions or is regarded as a central authority. | 1897 | Go To Quotation |
| Sinesian | Of or pertaining to the Chinese and kindred races or to those parts of Asia inhabited by them. | 1899 | Go To Quotation |
| Slavize | trans. To Slavicize. | 1887 | Go To Quotation |
| string-hearth | The hearth or furnace at which iron was heated for its second working. | 1409 | Go To Quotation |
| superfluly | Unnecessarily, superfluously, pointlessly. | 1395 | Go To Quotation |
| surprise | Mil. The (or an) act of assailing or attacking unexpectedly or without warning, or of… | 1457 | Go To Quotation |
| sword-blade | The blade of a sword. | 1409 | Go To Quotation |
| tenurial | Of, pertaining to, or of the nature of the tenure of land. | 1896 | Go To Quotation |
| water-wheel | A wheel designed to drive machinery, esp. that of a mill or pump, with water as the motive power. | 1408 | Go To Quotation |
