A person who is active in a cause. …

Of human actions: done (as opposed to suffered), voluntary; actif cursing, self-excommunication. …

Law To make a formal declaration in court, either by way of bringing a charge, in defense against a charge, in support of a right, or in justification of a claim; alleggen matier, present evidence……

(a) To commend or praise (sth.); worship (God); recommend (a virtue); (b) approve of, be pleased with (sth.); be pleasing (to sb.); favor (sb.); (c) appreciate or value (sth.); esteem. …

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

To keep (emotion, oneself) under control; control, restrain; attempren herte, courage, smelling, etc.; attempred, moderately [quot. 1500]. …

To train, educate, or instruct (someone);-- (a) with or without obj. denoting that which is taught; (b) with in, of, with, upon, to phrase; (c) with inf. phrase; (d) with that or hou clause. …

(a) Perhaps, possibly, probably; also, approximately, more or less; (b) by chance, by accident; (c) fortunately, luckily; (d) unfortunately; (e) phil. in or concerning the accidents [trans. L……

(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) Outermost; most distant, most remote, farthest; (b)external, foreign; existing at the lowest end of the chain of being [1st quot.]; (c) outrestside, the visiting group in a tournament. …

(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) Former, prior, earlier, previous; ben rather than, to exist before (sb.); (b) as noun: the rather, the former, the former one(s; also, the first; that rather, the former one; of rather, too early……

(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) Blameless, innocent; upright; guileless, artless; (b) of the eyes:?innocent, not sinful; ?sound, healthy; -- used fig. …

(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) Immaterial; consisting solely of intellect, purely intellectual; (b) having the properties of the immaterial: of virtues: unbounded, infinite; of torment: intangible; (c) phil. & theol. of form……

(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) Obedient, submissive; compliant; also, deferential; also fig.; subget to (unto); (b) put to the service of someone or something else; of service to another; also, subordinate; subget to (til); (c)……

(a) To subjugate (sb., a people, the earth); make (sb., a land, people, etc.) submissive (to sb., an authority, etc.); -- also refl.; also, make (sth.) subservient (to God); (b) to submit (to sb.)……

Chiefly phil. or theol. (a) Pertaining to the very nature of a thing, essential; substancial forme, forme substancial, the principle of existence in a substance and the source of all that is essential……

(a) Chiefly phil. or theol. In substance, essentially; also, so as to be an essential part of something; (b) in accordance with the essential nature of man, i.e., rationally. …

(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) Conducive to or arising from oneness or unification (b) phil. unitif pouere, the power of the vegetative faculty, that which ensures the uniformity of the species in the reproductive……

(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) Of a country, coastline: not watched over or protected, unguarded; of equipment: unattended (b) not cared for, neglected; of a child: not provided with a guardian; also in fig. context; also, phi……

(a) Inadequate for its intended purpose, insufficient, limited in operation or action (b) flawed, defective; also, inferior in physical form; of animals, organisms: primitive, lower [sometimes……

(a) Producing or promoting growth, vegetation, or vigor; animating, vivifying; vegetatif vertu, vertu vegetatif (b) phil. pertaining to the lowest species of soul, which gives bodily life, growth,……

(a) Physiol. & phil. Pertaining to the principle of life which animates living beings; vital sprit, spirit vital (b) physiol. of humoral spirits: producing life, quickening, vital; vital blod, blood……

(a) Proceeding from, subject to, or determined by the will; arising from willfulness, arbitrary; of the mind, heart, etc.: capable of unconstrained working, directed by volition; phil. not……

Without constraint, willingly, freely; also, phil. by means of free will. …

(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) The doing of an act or action; acting (in a certain way), (one’s) behavior; also, that which one does or has done, (one’s) acts or doings; an act, a deed; werking togeder; a merveillous werking……

(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……