A person who is active in a cause. …

The observance of proper measure or the 'golden mean'; moderation, temperateness. …

(a) Physical substance, matter; material; mater subget, the matter or substance of which a thing consists; bodilich (ertheli) mater, corporeality; ?also, element [quots.: a1393 & c1400]; (b) prime……

(a) Flawlessness, correctness; purity; a manifestation of perfection [1st quot.]; (b) the act of making perfect; (c) perfect performance or execution of a virtue, ceremony, an office, etc.; (d) a……

(a) Character, nature, state, or condition; an inherent attribute; innere qualite, ?inner state; [quot.: Barth., last, may belong with sense 3.(a)]; outre qualite, outer state; qualite of the colour……

(a) Size in three dimensions, magnitude, volume, capacity; open quantite, capacity of something when empty; (b) size in length; stature; also fig.; (c) circumference; (d) size of a surface area; also……

(a) The physical ability to sense or perceive; also, a sensitivity to pain; (b) a particular variety of perception characteristic of a sensory organ; (c) phil. the capacity of the soul to receive……

(a) Form, shape; the configuration of an object or part of an object, a shape; design; also, geometrical shape; of the belle shap, shaped like a bell; senden with hem a fair shap, to send them……

(a) Life, the principle of life; vital breath, a vital breath; also, the principle of animation, soul; also, a giver of life [quot. a1425(a1400)]; spirit of lif (quiknesse); (b) a living, rational……

(a) One who is obedient to another or to the wishes of another; a servant; a lover; also fig.; also, something which may be put to the service of man; (b) one who is absolutely under the control of or……

(a) A type or kind of thing; a thing; also, a material thing; up substaunce, above material things, spiritual, transcendent; (b) an entity possessing physical properties; -- used of the incarnate……

(a) An institution of higher learning granting the license to teach and other, higher degrees; also applied to advanced schools of classical and early medieval times; the body of scholars and teachers……

(a) One who acts, a doer; one who behaves in a particular way; the doer (of a deed); a perpetrator (of wickedness); a worker (of miracles) (b) one who acts in contrast to one who remains inactive, an……

(a) Obstinacy, headstrongness, obduracy; self-will; also, rashness, impulsiveness; with inf.: stubborn desire (to do sth.), insistence (b) fixity of purpose, determination, resolve; ?also, devotion……