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1. advocacīe, advō̆cātie n.

Additional spellings: advocatie
5 quotations in 1 sense
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Law (a) the activity of a professional pleader in courts of law, advocacy; (b) the advocacy performed by a prosecutor, a charge or accusation; (c) theol. intercession or advocacy on behalf of a sinner…

2. allē̆ǧea(u)nce n.(1)

Additional spellings: allegeaunce
13 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) Law A formal declaration or deposition; (b) the citing of authorities (esp. the Scriptures) in support of a doctrine or opinion; (c) the expression of an opinion or objection; assertion…

3. almes(se n.

Additional spellings: almesse
144 quotations in 7 senses
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(a) Anything given to relieve those in poverty or distress, any charitable gift or offering, alms; an allotment of alms; eten almes, be dependent on alms; gan on almes, liven bi, of almes, live on…

4. amortīsen v.

12 quotations in 2 senses
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(a) Law To alienate (property) in mortmain; -- usu. with to phrase; (b) to hold (property) in mortmain.

5. avīs n.

109 quotations in 8 senses
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Sight, view; inspection, scrutiny.

6. cassen v.

9 quotations in 1 sense
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Law To make (sth.) null and void, annul, quash; abolish (a guild).

7. causen v.(1)

41 quotations in 3 senses
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(a) To cause, effect, or produce (sth.); (b) to bring about or induce (an event or situation); cause (an action); (c) to bring (sth.) into existence, produce; (d) cause causing [L causa causans]…

8. champartīe n.

17 quotations in 3 senses
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Law The practice of aiding a litigant for a share of the matter in dispute, champerty.

9. dampnen v.

95 quotations in 5 senses
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To pass adverse judgment upon (sth., sb.); condemn or repudiate (a doctrine); object to or condemn (a practice); ban (a book); blame, censure or criticize (sb.).

10. dē̆pendaunce n.

6 quotations in 2 senses
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(a) The state of being dependent; (b) law an action or fact growing out of a legal action, consequence, result.

11. dētermināciǒun n.

30 quotations in 4 senses
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Usually law (a) Disposition or settlement of a suit or dispute; decision, verdict; doom, undoing; (b) power to adjudicate, jurisdiction.

12. endenten v.

52 quotations in 4 senses
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(a) To make notches, dents, or indentations in (something); give (something) a toothed, serrate, or jagged character or appearance; (b) fig. heckle.

13. endōsen v.

14 quotations in 3 senses
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Law (a) To confirm or approve (a charter, bill, agreement, etc.), [orig. by writing on the back of the document];--also fig.; (b) to approve a reply to (a petition), to grant (a petition) under seal…

14. engrōssen v.

44 quotations in 4 senses
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(a) To gather, collect, or acquire (something) in large quantity or numbers; (b) to accumulate or buy (goods) in such quantity as to cause scarcity, to forestall (the market), to corner (a commodity…

15. enquēren, -ien v.

Additional spellings: enquerien
89 quotations in 4 senses
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(a) To ask (a question, or questions), to ask for (specific information);--often with of phr. of the person questioned; (b) enqueren after, of, upon, to ask about (someone or something); ben enquering

16. entente n.

160 quotations in 8 senses
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(a) Purpose or intention; aim or object; reason (for doing something); (b) of entente, intentionally, deliberately, voluntarily; double of entente, ?shifty; (c) for, in, til, to, with (the) entente

17. imparken v.

7 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) To take possession of (land), enclose; (b) to enclose (cattle); fig. encircle (sb.) in battle; (c) law to impound (cattle).

18. maundement n.

79 quotations in 3 senses
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(a) A commandment (of God, Christ, Mohammed, etc.) regulating human conduct; fixed precept or rule of conduct (contained in the law of God or a religious rule); one of the Ten Commandments; (b) coll.

19. mō̆rther n.(1)

65 quotations in 3 senses
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(a) Deliberate killing of a human being, murder; morther of self, soule morther, spiritual suicide or death; (b) in prov. sayings: morther wil out, etc.; (c) a massacre; (d) crime, outrage; injury or…

20. mortificāciǒun n.

17 quotations in 3 senses
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(a) Death; (b) renunciation of self and the world; mortificacioun of the flesh (bodi), mortificacioun of sinne, penitential asceticism.