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1. alteren v.

26 quotations in 2 senses
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Phil., physiol., med., alch., astrol. (a) To change, modify, transform; alteren to (sth.); (b) to change for the worse; affect adversely; deteriorate; (c) to change for the better; affect…

2. exaltāciǒun n.(1)

24 quotations in 5 senses
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Astrol. The position of a planet in the zodiac where it was thought to exert its greatest influence; also, the point of highest elevation of the sun.

3. fāce n.

112 quotations in 9 senses
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(a) The face of man in its general physical aspects; (b) the face of an animal; (c) the face (of Fortune); the (double) face (of Janus, Law).

4. figūre n.

127 quotations in 12 senses
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Shape, form, appearance: (a) visible or tangible shape or form; general appearance; bodili figure, figure of this world; of the face: expression; (b) of a living being: bodily form, appearance (often…

5. fīrī adj.

61 quotations in 4 senses
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Fiery, flaming, blazing; also fig.; firi levene or thonder, lightning.

6. hē̆ven n.

326 quotations in 10 senses
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(a) The abode of God, heaven, paradise; -- also in pl.; (b) to (til, in) heven ward, to heaven; as to heven ward, as regards heaven; heven(es of heven(es, the highest heaven; hevenes kingdom, kingdom

7. lēd n.

228 quotations in 7 senses
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(a) Lead, either the metal or the metallic ore; whit led, ?tin; (b) as a type of heaviness; hevi as led, heavy as lead; also, weighed down by sin, grief, sleepiness, etc.; hevier than led, etc.; (c)…

8. līǒun n.(1)

216 quotations in 6 senses
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(a) A lion; (b) in comparisons: fers (hardi, wod) as lioun; cruel (real, sterne) as a lioun; strongere than a lioun; proudere (wildere) than the lioun; etc.; (c) in phrases: fers (gredi, grim, lothli,

9. mọ̄n(e n.(1)

Additional spellings: mone
240 quotations in 8 senses
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(a) The moon as a luminous heavenly body; the seventh 'planet' of Ptolemaic astronomy, the planet of the sphere nearest the earth; (b) the moon as the cosmological divider between the earth and the…

10. purpōs n.

186 quotations in 5 senses
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(a) One's intention, plan, or design; one's object, aim, or goal; also, the proper function or purpose for which something exists [quot.: a1398]; (b) purpos and ende (entente), purpos or entencioun

11. tāken v.

3092 quotations in 85 senses
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(a) To grip, take hold; taken to, clutch at (sb.), hold tight to; also, grasp [transl. of L adprehendere]; (b) to take hold of (sb. or sth.), grasp with the hand(s, grab; pick (sb. or sth.) up, lift…

12. werken v.(1)

617 quotations in 19 senses
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(a) To act, behave, proceed; act (in a specified way), proceed (on the basis of sth., according to sth.), act (so as to do sth.), do (as one should, as sb. enjoins, according to sth., etc.); werken