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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. avīs n.

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

5. 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.

6. 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.

7. 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.

8. 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

9. 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.

10. 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…

11. 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.

12. nōn-obstant(e prep. & n.

Additional spellings: nonobstant, non-obstante, nonobstante
3 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) Notwithstanding, in spite of; (b) law clause of non-obstant, a clause used in statutes and letters patent in which the king authorized an action contrary to established law.

13. orī̆ǧinā̆l(e n.

Additional spellings: originale
36 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) Origin, source; ancestry of a person; a source of a river; also fig.; haven original of (in), to originate in (sth.); taken original of (from), arise from (sth.); originate in (a place); of a…

14. plāce n.

407 quotations in 9 senses
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(a) Space, extension in two or three dimensions, room, area; also fig.; biriden so muche place, to ride over so much area, cover so much ground; haven place, have room; occupien place, occupy space…

15. prē̆mis(se n.

Additional spellings: premisse
35 quotations in 3 senses
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Pl. (a) Aforesaid matters, previously stated points; (b) preliminary plans, preparations; premis of the welcominge, preparations for the welcome.

16. prēscripciǒun n.

12 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) Law Title or right acquired by virtue of uninterrupted possession or use for a period of time sufficient, according to law, to establish such claim; (b) sentence of exile, proscription [error for…

17. prē̆sentāciǒun n.

24 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) The formal act or ceremony of dedicating an infant or a young child to God or to a pagan deity; also, the Christian Feast of the Presentation, Candlemas; (b) the formal induction of an elected…

18. record(e n.

Additional spellings: recorde
87 quotations in 7 senses
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Remembrance or recollection of something; of record, in remembrance.

19. rent(e n.

Additional spellings: rente
162 quotations in 6 senses
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(a) Revenue from property, income; also fig.; (b) a source of revenue or income, property yielding revenue; -- usu. pl.; lond and (or) rent, rent and lond, londes and (ne, other) rentes; (c) wealth…

20. rescǒus n.

37 quotations in 1 sense
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(a) Deliverance, rescue; assistance, help; also, defense; also fig.; rescous of oure lei, defense of our faith; don rescous, to render aid; maken rescous, render aid, rescue something; also, prepare…